MPA members are joining with Act 4 Inclusion in opposing the Tories’ proposed rise in National Insurance to pay for social care and support by having a stall with postcards and petitions on Wednesday 3rd November 1.30 Junction Church Street and Lord Street, outside HSBC.Join us

Out campaigning today for a new national social care system that is inclusive. #Act4Inclusion

Great to be out campaigning with act 4 inclusion - choice, control & independence and Merseyside Pensioners Association saying Johnson’s proposals to increase NI are an illusion. They won’t solve the crisis in social care. We need a new community based eco-social system, free, publicly provided & democratically run.

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Social care 'cannot make do and mend any longer' - ADASS president Stephen Chandler Stephen Chandler addresses #NCASC21 adass.org.uk/adass-press-re…

The principle of collective access leftunity.org/the-principle-… Sandra Daniels and Bob Williams-Findlay from Birmingham Left Unity write: It needs to be acknowledged, the climate change movement often fails to consider or include disabled people in conversations about climate change

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Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna expect data on shot's protection against new COVID-19 variant soon reut.rs/3rf9eNk

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Moderna's chief medical officer said he suspects the new omicron variant may elude current vaccines, and if so, a reformulated shot could be available early in the new year trib.al/r7YkdNH

BREAKING: A very serious situation at hospitals across Lincolnshire tonight as NHS United Lincs declares a 'critical incident' over "extreme and unprecedented" staff shortages. It says it is "unable to maintain safe staffing levels" leading to "compromised care" across its sites:

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Still spaces for a few more people to join us on Wednesday. If websites are often inaccessible to you then we'd love to learn from you & especially keen to learn from d/Deaf people - as we're hoping to embed BSL throughout our website. Sign up forms.gle/Zap8uyncjtgLWk…

Read this and think about how the demands for reform of social care are framed....act 4 inclusion - choice, control & independence @nacsils Cathy Wilson Kim Johnson Susan Ferguson Merseyside Pensioners Association Wes Streeting

Congratulations to UniteInHealth UniteWales members for sending a clear strong message that this effective #NHSPayCut is not acceptable. We will do all that we can to act on the wishes of our members as they proceed to a formal industrial action ballot in the coming weeks.

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Thanks, Bryony. NaCSILS End Social Care Disgrace agrees. We need to transform social care - we don't want more of the same. We want a system that enhances lives and civil society. It is all possible and affordable. nacsils.co.uk

We need events like this to show that social care matters, that we fight with disabled people for a better life, that we stand with unpaid carers and care workers. Join us Keep Our NHS Public Jo Walton 🥀 Inclusion London act 4 inclusion - choice, control & independence Think Local Act Personal

Steve can I ask you a question? What exactly is the better care fund? Do you really think that £66 per week carers allowance goes anywhere when you and your government are expecting carers to care for their loved ones 24 x 7 because you won't fund social care? Centre for Care