Our campaign has been hugely successful in forcing the government and care operators to remove visiting restrictions on care home residents.

This is a huge achievement that has resulted in uniting hundreds of thousands of care home residents with their families across the country.

However, lockdown showed us, all too often the rights of people in health and care settings are up for grabs. 

People were isolated from their loved ones for weeks or months on end. Deprived of their liberty, they couldn’t see friends or family – often with devastating results for their health and wellbeing. Many gave up the will to live. In order to ensure this never happens again to any of us - or to our loved ones - we must force lasting legal change.

We continue to fight for 'Gloria's Law' which would give ALL of us a legal right to an essential Care Supporter.

Many journalists and MPs from across the political divide continue to support our campaign as rich or poor, young or old, none of us are immune to illness or frailty which could strike at any time.

The right to a Care Supporter would ensure we’ll always have access to a close friend or relative who can provide support, advocacy and essential human contact when we are at our most vulnerable. We need to protect ourselves from being completely cut off from loved ones when we are receiving care, in health or care settings, including hospitals and care homes.

The Care Minister has met with campaigners several times and agreed that lessons must be learned and change is needed. Yet Ministers have still not produced a concrete legal proposal. We must keep up the momentum, so we need your support to get it over the line!

Add your voice by taking our pledge and asking others to do the same - it takes less than a minute!

Thanks so much for supporting our campaign to date - let’s ensure that people needing hospital treatment or care never face harmful isolation again.

Actress Ruthie Henshall still lives with the harrowing images of her mum, Gloria, declining from the other side of a closed window. When Ruthie eventually got in to the care home to see her mum, the time they had left together was short.

We are fighting for Gloria’s Law in the name of Ruthie’s mum and all others who deserve a better quality of life:
 
"Why are we fighting for the most vulnerable? They should be the first in line for love and care. Don't let one more person live and die alone."

(Actress, Ruthie Henshall)