@daverogersmmceo
CEO of Midland Mencap, leading a progressive citizen focussed and influenced organisation. Forty years experience of working across the social care sector. Big ticket interests - Housing, Health Inequalities, Employment, Co-Production
@midlandmencap.bsky.social will be hosting FREE Learning Disability Awareness Training on Wed 18th June 10-12pm for those working and volunteering in Health and Social Care, VCSE sector and CIC’s. Session co-delivered by an expert by experience. Booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-d...
To support a safe hospital discharge
@midlandmencap.bsky.social
widened a doorway & added a ramp—making the home fully accessible.
✅ Hospital stay shortened
✅ Tenancy secured
✅ Independence maintained
With smart planning & quick action, people can recover where they belong: at home
Great news #Worcester, @midlandmencap.bsky.social is launching a new inclusive music project in the city. Starting on the 20th March and facilitated by a professional musician everyone is welcome to join the fun. Details below, you can also scan the barcode for more info and booking arrangements
On the day the last pints of Banks’s Mild are pulled in the Black Country this abomination. What has happened to us?
One for @mikeewins.bsky.social, the mighty Carlisle United rollin’ through the West Midlands on a Tuesday evening, where they’re off to🤷🏻♂️
My first Villa Park game was 57 years ago almost to the day. So many memories as we commemorated 150 years of @avfc-official.bsky.social tonight. Great to get the win and to be able to share an emotional night on The Holte with my sons and grandson. We did not choose, we were chosen #avfc
Living Well Consortium is recruiting for a VCFSE Partnership Manager to champion the influence of the VCFSE Sector across Birmingham and Solihull. The role is funded by the BSOL Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, and Autism Provider Collaborative urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...
I suspect other factors are at play too, lack of access to meaningful and person centred social work, access to advocacy support, ad hoc eligibility decisions at funding panels and a a system that for most is confusing, impenetrable and consequently’impossible’ to navigate #socialcare
Why work in social care, even if you’re paid the real living wage of £12.60ph, most get minimum wage, jobs laden with regulation, responsibility & accountability when with no experience you can work in a supermarket warehouse and earn £16.48ph? Caring for people or caring for dried goods #socialcare
Is putting in funds now to pay a highly skilled workforce a fair wage chucking money at it? For most all they get is the minimum wage for a job that comes with considerable responsibility and accountability. Stabilising the workforce should be a priority of Govt. ahead of the review
The crisis is now not in 2028, I don’t think, unless you’re deeply invested in social care, that people grasp that. If social care collapses so does the NHS. The sector needs stabilising before Govt. Set about ‘discovering’ what is already known
Nice one Wes Streeting, I’m here for this, I’d pay good money to watch the sour faced Cerberus that holds sway at our GP surgery go through training. There’s a fly on the wall in this for Channel4
This, the money is there, but the political will is sadly lacking. Remember the solution is always political and ideological #socialcare #socialcarecrisis
That grinding sound you hear is Sir Andrew Dilnot sharpening his stiletto for next Wednesday
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Pleased Baroness Casey is leading this but we can’t wait until 2028 and then keep our 🤞 crossed the next parliament acts on recommendations. We can only hope Casey’s interim report triggers early reform, in the meantime funds are made available to pay a highly skilled workforce a decent living wage
Pleased Baroness Casey is leading this but we can’t wait until 2028 and then keep our 🤞 crossed the next parliament acts on recommendations. We can only hope Casey’s interim report triggers early reform, in the meantime funds are made available to pay a highly skilled workforce a decent living wage
Pleased Baroness Casey is leading this but we can’t wait until 2028 and then keep our 🤞 crossed the next parliament acts on recommendations. We can only hope Casey’s interim report triggers early reform, in the meantime funds are made available to pay a highly skilled workforce a decent living wage
Pleased Baroness Casey is leading this but we can’t wait until 2028 and then keep our 🤞 crossed the next parliament acts on recommendations. We can only hope Casey’s interim report triggers early reform, in the meantime funds are made available to pay a highly skilled workforce a decent living wage
Pleased Baroness Casey is leading this but we can’t wait until 2028 and then keep our 🤞 crossed the next parliament acts on recommendations. We can only hope Casey’s interim report triggers early reform, in the meantime funds are made available to pay a highly skilled workforce a decent living wage
Pleased Baroness Casey is leading this but we can’t wait until 2028 and then keep our 🤞 crossed the next parliament acts on recommendations. We can only hope Casey’s interim report triggers early reform, in the meantime funds are made available to pay a highly skilled workforce a decent living wage
Pleased Baroness Casey is leading this but we can’t wait until 2028 and then keep our 🤞 crossed the next parliament acts on recommendations. We can only hope Casey’s interim report triggers early reform, in the meantime funds are made available to pay a highly skilled workforce a decent living wage
Pleased Baroness Casey is leading this but we can’t wait until 2028 and then keep our 🤞 crossed the next parliament acts on recommendations. We can only hope Casey’s interim report triggers early reform, in the meantime funds are made available to pay a highly skilled workforce a decent living wage
Pleased Baroness Casey is leading this but we can’t wait until 2028 and then keep our 🤞 crossed the next parliament acts on recommendations. We can only hope Casey’s interim report triggers early reform, in the meantime funds are made available to pay a highly skilled workforce a decent living wage
“Soon there will be nothing left to reform”.
Why the care sector is impatient for the government’s new care commission to come up with answers, rather than just recap the same old problems.
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The total intellectual vacuum amongst our politicians www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Wes Streeting might manage to produce a social care plan by 2028. By then, Labour will be in its last inglorious days in office. How did people as incompetent as this ever reach high office in the UK?
It’s the BIG 40!! Yes, 2025 marks my fortieth year working in #socialcare, the vast majority in #Birmingham. I’ve added a few more thoughts and reminiscences in the pic below. If I was to write a book I don’t think many people would believe the story I could tell📖
Fantastic to welcome so many people to Midland Mencap’s community Christmas lunch. Great food, presents and 🥂So glad everyone had such a good time sharing Christmas Day together, well done to everyone involved 🎅🎄 #Birmingham #ChristmasDinner
A huge 👏👏to colleagues and fab volunteers for spending part of Christmas Day preparing our 5th community Xmas lunch. We’ve nearly 40 people coming who otherwise would have been alone today. And thanks to Northfield Community Partnership and Northfield NNS for their generous support 🍽️ #Birmingham
Channel 4 at 4.50pm on Christmas Day, the alternative Christmas message amp.theguardian.com/stage/2024/d...
