Explore the what, how and why of putting co-operative principles at the heart of a new National Care Service

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Social care all too often becomes a “David V Goliath” struggle with a local authority care provider, where “one size fits all” really isn’t the best outcome for the recipient. In Wales the 2014 Act has a guiding principle of “co-production”, but local authorities struggle with the concept or simply sidestep it. Perhaps as a result the last Welsh government passed the Health and Social Care (Wales) Act 2025, giving care recipients a route out of local authority control. However, many are finding the route to Continuing Health Care via a Local Health Board almost unfathomable, so as to lead nowhere?”

About David Smith

Lifelong co-operative & community activist working at all levels of the movement. Ex Government Food Adviser & UK Healthcare Regulator. Founded the first Community Law Centre in Wales; directed the first EC funded Wales Anti-Poverty Programme: pioneering co-operative & place making community initiatives. Robert Owen Memorial Museum Trustee. Director, Sheffield Co-op Development Group. Graduate Ruskin College, UC Cardiff + PGCE, MA Keele; Ex Lecturer Professional Food & Management, Gwent Tertiary College,
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