Resources & Templates

Day of Action Resources

We are holding the next Day of Action on the 20th May 2025 at 2pm join with us from anywhere around the country, in your services and by sharing key messages across social media platforms – tag us in on LinkedIn, X, BlueSky, and Facebook.

We held our Day of Action on the 25th Feb 2025 in London, or from anywhere around the country, in your services and by sharing key messages across social media platforms – tag us in on LinkedIn, X, BlueSky, and Facebook.

Please use one or many of these tools to amplify the message that we need a #NICSolutionNow!

Providers Unite Logo – click on button below to see more

1. Talk to your MP – find your MP’s email address here.

Customise the letter with your details, your points and your service’s experience in your own words.

2. Please continue to use our Hashtags #ProvidersUnite #CareCannotWait #ValueSocialCare #NICSolutionNow

3. Easy Read resources are available below to explain who #ProvidersUnite are and what the Day of Action is about.

4. Brand guidelines to create your Providers Unite message.

5 Learn the words to the song Who Cares? Performed by Ivor Novello-nominated Boo Hewerdine, with lyrics by Brian Johnson of the Independent Care Group (iCG), 💚 Join us in sharing this powerful anthem that highlights the importance of social care.

Watch the full video here: https://www.independentcaregroup.co.uk

Download the song here: https://thecareworkerscharity.bandcamp.com/track/who-cares

Or listen to the song on your favourite streaming platform and donate here:https://checkout.justgiving.com/devg9ex68z

Proceeds from the song support The Care Workers’ Charity.

Letters

The letters in this section will give you a guide you may want to use to help

Please note:
These letters are more of a guide for content and you will need to add your own details, points and experiences.

Write to your MP

1. You can find your MP’s email address here.

2. Alternatively, you can use the www.writetothem.com system to write to your MP. (However, this system will block copied and pasted identical letters, so it is vital you personalise your letter.)

What to do in 5 easy steps

Step 1:

You can find your MP’s email address here.
Customise the letter with your details, your points and your service’s experience in your own words.

Step 2:

Go to www.writetothem.com and find MPs and councillors in areas where you work with local authorities.

Step 3:

Paste in your letter, add your details and submit.

Step 4:

Share! Tell everyone in your network about your letter in person, by email and social media.

Step 5:

Keep us posted about any responses you receive.

Our thanks to ARC England for this template letter.

We particularly encourage all providers in these 8 localities to highlight the campaign and the investment required for social care:

Holborn and St Pancras: Keir Starmer’s own constituency

As the Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader, this is Starmer’s home base and holds the highest strategic importance for our campaign – please encourage people you support, care workers you employ to also write with our template

Leeds Central: Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Ashton under Lyne: Angela Rayner, Deputy Leader
Ilford North: Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Aberafan Maesteg: – Stephen Kinncok, Minister of State for Health & Social Care
Bristol North and West: – Darren Jones, Special Advisor
Wycombe: – Emma Reynolds, Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Ealing North: – James Murray, Exchequer Secretary (HMT)

Letter to Council Leaders

We sent this letter to all Council leaders on 16 December 2024.

This letter can be used to send to your council contacts as well to amplify our message. We also suggest local care associations write to their Council requesting a joint meeting.

Find your local councillor here.

Letter for care providers to request for Fair Fee Rate uplift

This letter can be used for providers to request a fair fee uprate to their services in 2025/26. It addresses rising financial pressures, including the 6.7% National Living Wage increase and higher National Insurance contributions.

The template supports requests for price adjustments based on Change of Law clauses and highlights Local Authorities’ obligations under the Care Act 2014. Fair fee rates are vital to sustain high-quality services which meet growing local demand.

Our thanks to the Association of Mental Health Providers for this template.

Find your local councillor here.

Letter to Councils Fee rate Declared

Our thanks to Stephen Trowbridge MBE for this template letter.

Have your council advise the 2025/26 fee rate? Use this to write to your DASS and Monitoring Officers providing the key points from the High Court Judgement against Stoke City Council won by Staffordshire Care providers.

Bevan Brittan LLP: Guide to judicial review in civil matters.

Find your local monitoring officer: Here

Value Care Economics - Fact Checker

Links to further helpful information.

The resources in this section can be a guide you may find helpful to use to talk to policy makers, commissioners of services, political leaders and your community about the value you provide.

Local Government Joint statement: Strengthening adult social care and support for us all. It estimates that ENICs changes create £1.77 billion in additional costs for councils; £637 million for directly employed staff and £1.13 billion through indirect costs via commissioned providers, including £628 million for adult social care alone.

ADASS estimate that Oct 24 Budget changes to NICs and NLW could cost councils up to £1.8bn

Nuffield Trust estimate the cost to social care providers is £2.8bn

The Care Provider Alliance (CPA) 2024 comprehensive survey of over 1,180 care and support providers, revealing the social care sector faces potential collapse due to the combined impact of National Insurance changes and National Living Wage increases announced in the Oct 24 Budget.

Digital Care Hub points out 75% of care providers will “reduce or stop digital transformation”.

Presentations

Thanks to Liz Blacklock and Sam Sanderson for developing.