fault eviction’ Welsh Government September 2019 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead ... to own their own home, renting privately may be the only option, but the way the system currently works means that renters are never on a sure footing. This can be stressful and uncertain for anyone, and
supported by the mixed evidence which exists on attitudinal change. Research by the Department for Work and Pensions suggests the 50+ age group appears to have fared badly with regards to employers viewing ... do come to terms with the benefits of employing older workers. Nonetheless, there is still much work to be done in persuading more employers of the benefits of being age-positive. Although the Regulations
Improvement Wales and Social Care Wales September 2019 Introduction Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead ... remunerated career, and capacity sufficient to meet need over time. Multi-professional and multi-agency working, to deliver excellent services to support new person-centred models We support in principle Welsh
functions, including tackling doorstep crime. Postal, telephony and internet service providers should work with their regulators and financial institutions to improve protection against scams. Financial ... UK Somerset have been working on a project with North Somerset trading standards, meeting with each person from the area who was named on a so-called 'suckers list'. Staff worked to build their trust and
and a Code of Practice on Advocacy. The Act has also established Safeguarding Boards. Agencies must work together to safeguard individuals, to uphold an individual’s fundamental right to be safe, to minimise ... Government and local authorities should work with voluntary service providers to raise awareness of advocacy services among older people and the professionals who work with them. Older people are often targeted
PHASE 3 IMPLEMENTATION – REGULATED ADVOCACY SERVICES AUGUST 2018 Age Cymru is the leading charity working to improve the lives of all older people in Wales. We believe older people should be able to lead ... individuals.” It is therefore inappropriate for Regulation 10 to state that advocacy service providers must work to Social Care Wales 2 guidance on the professional duty of candour, as this would create conflicts
Since April 2016 the Golden Thread Advocacy Programme (GTAP), funded by Welsh Government, has been working with a wide range of stakeholders across Wales to support the commissioning of independent professional ... thank everyone who has supported our work, who have opened up to the ideas and expertise within the GTAP team, who have given us time in their busy day to work with us on the development of an enormous
older people; the one in four working adults in poverty today are all too likely to become the poor pensioners of 2030 or 2040. Gavin Thomas provides an insight into the work of Age Cymru Advice and how ... Phillips describes the work of the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) with reference to improving financial wellbeing amongst older people. The article highlights that 57% of working age adults in Wales don’t
community learning has faced substantial budget cuts. We believe that opportunities to learn both for work and pleasure should be available to people of all ages, and the value of non-vocational learning for ... bus services remain vulnerable to spending cuts or commercial decisions. The Welsh Government must work with local authorities to support a sustainable network, and contingency plans must be developed in
client group. The reduction is from 44 to 41 services. There are 54 full time paid advocates working across Wales with 10 of those delivering advocacy specifically to older people. Both these figures ... of those delivering advocacy specifically to older people. There are 51 volunteer advocates working in a variety of advocacy services across Wales. There are 21 fewer paid advocates and 15 fewer