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fulfil their duties under the Act. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all involved, for the work that they have done in the last three years in developing this Framework to ensure that advocacy services ... complete the work in developing the Framework and Toolkit. We are grateful for the expertise and knowledge of the Golden Thread Advocacy Programme staff team and for all their hard work in developing
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Mental health condition Dementia Autistic spectrum condition Sight loss or hearing loss Learning disability Long term illness Alcohol or drug addiction Terminal illness Other (Please ... Faith group Volunteering Employment Sports group GP surgery Education and lifelong learning Support groups to help you with your own health condition or disability Other (Please specify)
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individuals to ensure that the person (and their well-being outcomes) is placed at the center of the work of support services. Independent advocacy gives citizens voice, choice and control over achieving ... recommendations to address the barriers. In response, the Welsh Government announced a programme of work that includes key elements relating to advocacy. The Code of Practice (Part 10, Advocacy) states that:
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committees or groups including the provision of information and/ or briefings to facilitate the smooth working practices of those committees or groups. 4. To arrange and deliver conferences, workshops, seminars ... Abilities • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. x • Ability to oversee organisation of work from plan to execution. x • A confident and positive approach to handling interaction with others
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charity number 1090329. The Local Government Association (LGA) is a politically led organisation, working to support, promote and improve local government. Age UK is a registered charity number 1128267 and ... draft report, in addition to the body of evidence that we gathered over the first eight months of our work. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed. Delivering dignity will mean changing the way
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2016. This sets out the context, considers the three pillars of affordability, fairness and fuller working lives and looks at the impact of changes to State Pension age for particular groups and possible ... will find it difficult or impossible to keep working or who are otherwise subsisting on an extremely low income. Our report from earlier this year, Working Later, waiting longer, explored a series of case
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services markets are working for consumers. It is therefore important that it has a mandate to engage appropriately in relevant public policy. Some of this may take place as part of work on the Financial ... accessible pensions dashboard by 2019. In order for it to be a success, it needs to ensure that it works for all savers, especially those with multiple small pots. It can help to ensure pensions flexibilities
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Bivand and Rowan Foster June 2014 Foreword Long-term unemployment, usually defined as being out of work for over a year, is one of the most serious challenges facing the over 50s in the contemporary UK ... to retire, many others find themselves out of work and have a much more torrid journey through the later part of their working life. For those out of work it can be extremely difficult to get another job
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provides resources to organisations to help them train volunteers (new or existing), as well as staff, to work with specified hard to engage groups of older people in social and physical activities. This includes: ... targets for number of volunteers and older people engaged, and resulting in effective partnership working at the local level. Delivery of the programme Delivery Organisations applied the programme to
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Testing Promising Approaches to Reducing Loneliness Results and Learnings of Age UK’s Loneliness Pilot. 2 Foreword Many people experience loneliness at some point in their lives. For some it may be short-lived ... Loneliness still carries a stigma and people may not want to admit to feeling lonely, so our latest work has been focussed on finding the best ways to reach and truly engage older people who are lonely:
