PMLD Network responds to Social Care Green Paper

November 2009

The PMLD Network has submitted a response to the Government’s consultation on the social care green paper. It welcomes the green paper and its proposal to create a National Care Service.

But it says it is crucial that the government understands that people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) will need lifelong complex packages of support to meet their health and social care needs. There needs to be a strong commitment to fully meeting the needs of people with PMLD throughout their lives and not just at times of crisis. The Government needs to ensure that there is enough funding in the system to do this.

Beverley Dawkins, Chair of the PMLD Network said, "We welcome reform of the care and support system. Currently most people with PMLD are not getting the care and support they need to have an 'ordinary life' and their human rights are largely ignored. The new system must fully support the equal rights of this vulnerable part of society."

Read the PMLD Network response to the social care green paper.

Read the social care green paper: 'Shaping the Future of Care Together'