19 November

This morning I went to the House of Commons along with Nadra to give evidence to the House of Commons Health Committee. In August we had received an invitation to submit evidence on the following points:

future funding of long-term residential and domiciliary care for older people and people with physical or learning disabilities;

personalisation of social care services;

more effective, consistent and user-friendly social care services.

The evidence that we submitted can be accessed via this link:


http://www.nationalcareassociation.org.uk/story_detail.asp?story=news&id=253


The Chief Officers of two other officers also gave evidence to the Health Committee at the same time.

The session clearly went well because it lasted for more than an hour and a quarter. I was certainly pressed on some of the points we had made in our evidence but all in all the committee was extremely interested in all we had to say.

As soon as the Committee’s report is published I will let you know.

I was surprised a few days later to hear from several people that the session had been extensively reported on the Parliament Channel late one night.