The full More Than A Provider Policy Proposal can be found and downloaded here
We are More Than A Provider
MacIntyre is one of six not-for-profit organisations that are calling for change in social care. Together we are known as More Than A Provider.
Working together, we aim to influence and support those in power to make informed and aspirational decisions about the issues that affect us all.
Who are the partner organisations?
The partnership includes Brandon Trust, Certitude, Choice Support, Dimensions and United Response. The organisations have shared values and over 240 years’ combined experience of creating positive solutions for people drawing on social care. Each organisation is funded primarily by local authorities to provide a range of support for children, young people and adults, including those with learning disabilities and/or autism.
Together we support 12,000 people and employ 21,000 staff across England and Wales. We hope our combined influence means that government ministers and policy writers, in all political parties, can benefit from our experience about what social care needs to be able to thrive, and what people who draw on our support need to live gloriously ordinary lives.
What are More Than A Provider’s aims?
The organisations are part of and fully aligned to the Social Care Future movement and we share the Movement’s vision:
We all want to live in the place we call home, with the people and things we love, in communities where we look out for each other, doing the things that matter to us. That’s the #SocialCareFuture we seek.
MacIntyre has adopted this vision and embedded it into our value base (our DNA). Find out more about #SocialCareFuture by watching their video:
More Than A Provider policy proposals
In February 2024 the More Than A Provider group agreed a set of policy proposals for the future of social care including:
- Introducing a minimum benchmark for social care pay at NHS Band 3
- Introducing a pay progression framework for social care
- Introducing national standards for outcomes-based commissioning
- Ensuring statutory inclusion of voluntary and community organisations in Integrated Care Boards
- Implementing the Hewitt Review’s recommendation for consolidated health and social care budgets
- Including supported housing in local planning targets
- Introducing a ‘kick-start’ equivalent for employing young people with a learning disability and/or autism
Policy Proposal - download here
What’s next?
- We will be sharing our policy proposals with political decision makers and find out how the group can influence and support good decision-making for social care
- We will support people who draw on MacIntyre’s support to meet their local MPs before the general election
- The group will be speaking with journalists about the policy proposals and share stories to raise awareness of how and where we believe change could be effected.
Find out more about our partners
To find out more about the More Than A Provider partners, follow the links here:
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