September 2025

Twenty members of L’Arche Liverpool joined care providers across the city in a march through the streets, proudly leading the way with flags, banners, and voices calling for change.

The message was clear: social care matters. We dream of a system that is stable, where the workforce is valued with fair pay, and where services like ours are recognised as essential to society.

Once, people with learning disabilities were fighting to leave large institutions. Now, the struggle looks different. Too often, care is treated as a business where cost and profit come before people.

In our Communities, we see how people flourish when they’re supported with love, friendship, and dignity. But we also see how fragile things are becoming. Rising costs and shrinking budgets mean that more and more care is shifting to for-profit low-quality providers. That’s not the future we want.

Last year, our funding rose by 6%. The National Living Wage rose by 9.8%. National Insurance costs went up too, adding more than £1 million to our pay bill. 

That’s why we’re raising our voices - in the streets and in conversations with decision-makers.

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