With credible media reports this week that the government is considering taking social care back into the NHS, it is worth knowing that disabled people in the 1960s campaigned for social care to leave the NHS and to become a duty of local government, not least because it would become more accountable.
This could be our era’s defining moment for defending the social model against the medical model.
The two documents below provide background research and extensive details on the campaigns for independent living in the 60s and 70s. Please fee free to circulate them, they are both Creative Commons for that purpose.
Tony Baldwinson
Alf Morris MP and the campaigning by disabled people that led to the 1970 CSDP Act – research notes
2020-06-11 Alf Morris MP and the campaigning by disabled people … (Final 2)
To and From Grove Road: Independent living, disabled people, social care, activists fighting segregation and abuse by Maggie Davis (Hines) and Ken Davis
2019 To and From Grove Road – Maggie Davis (Hines) Ken Davis – ISBN 9781913148089
