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scams circulating. Please be scam aware and follow our tips below to help the person you’re supporting to stay safe. Encourage them to: • Be sceptical if they receive an email, text or WhatsApp message ... full name, address, date of birth, bank details or pin numbers – scammers can use this information to steal their identity. • Not be pressured into donating money and never make donations by cash or gift
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The Golden Thread Advocacy Programme has been funded by Welsh Government for 3 years to run alongside and support the implementation of Part 10 (Advocacy) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) ... aims are: To support the commissioning of independent professional advocacy through a sustainable, strategic approach. To improve the availability of advocacy services to adults across Wales To improve
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1 Option 2 Advocacy Services in Vale of Glamorgan In addition to the services above, the MCA, MHA and SSWB Acts set out statutory rights to advocacy. If they apply, you may also choose from the services ... act, under guardianship or subject to a community treatment order or in hospital informally receiving treatment for their mental health? If so, they have a legal right to an IMHA (Independent Mental Health
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always talk to you before discussing your information with anyone else. We’ll keep your information safe and you have the right to see your own records. We’ll support you to have access to them if you ... you wish. If you feel you’re at risk of harm, abuse or neglect, we can look at ways to help you feel safe. We welcome all feedback about our service. If you have any comments, compliments, or complaints
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country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We believe in a world where everyone can love later life and we work every day to achieve this. We help more than 5 million ... people who need it most. The Age UK network includes Age UK, Age Cymru, Age NI and Age Scotland and around 165 local Age UK partners in England. About this report Age UK has long been committed to increasing
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overview of the changes for 2020 Clare Lucas St Thomas Training www.stthomastraining.co.uk The road to the LPS … 2004 – Bournewood judgment: the rejection of legal informality 2009 – DoLS introduced ... Chester Council, P & Q v Surrey CC [2014] UKSC19 Constant / continuous supervision & control Not free to leave www.stthomastraining.co.uk Human rights protection Efficient & streamlined scheme The critical
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1 This survey is a follow up to the survey we undertook in Summer 2020 for people aged 50 or over across Wales, and is being undertaken by key organisations that represent older people. It is important ... experiences of the lockdown and the impact that this has made on them. This survey will take 15 minutes to complete. Your response is anonymous. Thank you for your support in completing this survey. A. Lockdown
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Response to FCA scoping study of access to financial services 17 April 2015 All rights reserved. Third parties may only reproduce this paper or parts of it for academic, educational or research ... study and encourages the FCA to proceed to a full review of the access issues identified. The key access issues for Age UK’s constituency are: The need for continued access to customer-friendly physical
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If you’re on a low income and struggling to cover your rent, you could claim Housing Benefit. Housing Benefit is money to help people on a low income to cover their rent. Housing Benefit is a means-tested ... means-tested benefit. This means the amount you can get depends on: your savings who you live with how much rent you pay how many rooms you have in your home if you get disability or carer’s benefits
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Campaigner Pack - Wales Thank you so much for downloading this pack. We’re so excited to work with you to save the Winter Fuel Payment for struggling pensioners! Contents Why we’re campaigning ... ........................... 2 What you can do to help ...................................................................................... 3 Writing to the Chancellor and your MP ...................
