Human Rights and Social Care Forum

Hi! My name is Caroline Green. I am researcher at King’s College London with a passion for older people, social care and human rights. I am the founder of the Human Rights and Social Care Forum, which happened the first time in June 2022.

The Human Rights and Social Care Forum was put in place to support conversations, research and practice in social care and human rights. It brings together a people drawing on care, providing care, policy makers, people in government, researchers and others who are interested in the topic. Human Rights are the rights and freedoms we all have simply because we are human beings – no matter our ethnicity, sex/gender, disability, financial background, age, or whether we draw on care or not. Human Rights are enshrined in international and nationals laws, like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, the European Convention on Human Rights and in the UK in the Human Rights Act 1998 (for now! let’s hope this won’t change).

Public authorities are bound by the Human Rights Act 1998 and other human rights legislation, but what does this mean for people drawing on social care? That is the question the Human Rights and Social Care Forum is seeking to establish. This website is supposed to become a resource to accompany the Forum, with research, reports, practical tools, laws etc. all in one place. However – this is work in practice! I will keep adding resources as I find them.

Please get in touch with me at caroline.green@kcl.ac.uk if you have any suggestions for resources to add!

Thank you and a very happy Human Rights Day 2022 (10th of December 2022) from Caroline