Campaigning

Community Integrated Care met with Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP to discuss social care reform in Scotland, including sustainable funding, the social care workforce, unpaid carers, delayed discharge and the future of high-quality support.

Community Integrated Care joined the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities at Westminster, sharing how person-centred social care can tackle loneliness, improve inclusion and help people with learning disabilities and autistic people build meaningful connections.

As part of the BBC’s Social Care Day, Community Integrated Care highlighted the vital role of social care, the challenges facing the sector and the urgent need for fair pay, funding and recognition for the social care workforce.

Community Integrated Care launched Unfair To Care 2026, highlighting continued pay inequality in adult social care and calling for urgent action to deliver fair pay for social care workers. The report explores the Government’s planned Fair Pay Agreement, social care funding and the action needed to build a sustainable social care workforce.

Community Integrated Care responds to Baroness Casey and the Casey Commission on adult social care, calling for meaningful social care reform, sustainable funding, better commissioning and greater recognition for the social care workforce.