Write to your MP
If you think it’s important for the government to release information about social care funding please write to your MP so that they can show you they care too and pledge their support by bringing it to the attention of the Prime Minister and Chancellor.
As a constituent, your views and interests are a priority to your Member of Parliament. Writing to your MP is an important way to ensure that they are aware of your concerns and take action. You can do this by email or by letter. We have created a template letter which you can send. It includes :
Our campaign for Government Transparency in adult social care funding.
Why being transparent about social care funding is important.
What the impact the current social care system has on people.
And finishes with what we them to do.
We want MP’s to:
Write to PM Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves, to ask them to release the requested information.
Write to Baroness Casey to ask the commission to formally request this vital information from the government.
Write back to you and to Access Social Care so they can show you they care and add you to their public list of MPs who support this work by emailing chloe.mcgill@accesscharity.org.uk
Find Your MPs address
The UK Parliament website has a simple look up tool to Find your MP.
You can find their postal address if you want to send your letter by post and their email address if you would rather email them. You can also learn more about them, including details of their parliamentary career and voting history.
Add your address details and personal opinion to the letter and send it .
If you have personally experienced issues with accessing social care either as a person receiving it or as a carer, you have knowledge and expertise that your MP is quite unlikely to have themselves. If you feel comfortable with sharing your story, it can make a big impact on how an MP acts
Our Campaign in a nutshell
✚ Access Social Care is a legal rights organisation fighting a landmark freedom of information legal case against three government departments to ensure government accountability and adequate funding for social care. Disclosure of the information requested will allow specialist social care organisations to collaborate with central government to support the improvement of long-term decision making on social care funding.
✚ Access Social Care has campaigned for 4 years for the UK government to disclose how it funds social care, believing that transparency is essential to create a system that works for everyone. Despite the Information Commissioner's support for sharing this information, the government continues to withhold it. Fast forward to 2025 and Baroness Casey was appointed to lead an independent commission aimed at rebuilding the social care system.
Read more about the campaign here
