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Information page regarding the Advocacy Network to include updates on the 'big events'.
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Independent advocacy is a vital service for individuals to ensure that the person (and their well-being outcomes) is placed at the centre of the work of support services. Independent advocacy gives citizens ... Advocacy Counts 6 (2018). The Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 places a requirement on local authorities to make advocacy available for all individuals in Wales in certain circumstances including
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Independent advocacy is a vital service for individuals to ensure that the person (and their well-being outcomes) is placed at the centre of the work of support services. Independent advocacy gives citizens ... Advocacy Counts 6 (2018). The Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 places a requirement on local authorities to make advocacy available for all individuals in Wales in certain circumstances including
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Inequality The Budget did little to help to close the gap between the richest and the poorest pensioners The Budget allows more affluent older people to be able to leave more of their estate free of ... means-tested benefits to which they are entitled Material deprivation Over a million pensioners in this country cannot afford to replace a cooker if it breaks down Over four million cannot afford a holiday About
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document will be handled in strictest confidence Signed: Date ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Age Cymru is a registered ... experience do you think the applicant could bring to their role as a volunteer This is a list of skills and qualities a care home would require from a volunteer. Please indicate how you would rate the
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Roundtable: Later older age: how do you maintain control and stay financially included? “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between Our research for the ... factors interact with any particular agerelated constraints we are now experiencing in later old age to shape our quality of life and lifestyle. And, of course, these three determining factors can form an
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Age Cymru's Policy and Public Affairs team has produced a range of publications about the issues affecting older people in Wales.
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Spring Forward Gold is a Forest Arts for Older people programme, in partnership with Tanio, that is being piloted in Bridgend.
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leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead healthy and fulfilled lives, have adequate income, access to high quality services ... opportunity to shape their own future. We seek to provide a strong voice for all older people in Wales and to raise awareness of the issues of importance to them. We are pleased to respond to the Welsh Government’s
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increases to the basic State Pension and the new State Pension in line with the highest of rises in earnings, prices or 2.5%. By law the basic State Pension and new State Pension have to be increased ... increased at least in line with average earnings, so given a period of low earnings inflation, the triple lock has made an important difference to the value of the State Pension. However, total average annual
