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home Volunteer: optional follow up phone call After an application is received, you may choose to arrange a follow up phone call • Ideally this should be made within one week of receiving the application ... is not a formal interview, it’s a two-way conversation to confirm the suitability of the volunteering role for both Volunteer and Care Home. • The format used by Age Cymru is a basis for your conversation
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Issue No 3, May 2021 HOPE Project news A word from one of our team volunteers ‘Just browsing through Facebook one evening I stumbled across a post describing a new advocacy project with Age Cymru - the ... worked in a support role I thought this might be something I would be interested in doing. Therefore, I contacted Age Cymru and so began my journey to become a HOPE Project volunteer. It’s a journey
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to the social care system in Wales 5 3 How the local authority can help you if you have care and/or support needs 6 3.1 Introduction 6 3.2 Initial contact with the local authority and making a referral ... assessment of your needs 9 3.4 Deciding eligibility for service provision 10 3.5 If you have eligible needs 10 3.6 The care and support plan 11 4 How the local authority can help a carer – services for a
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Chief Executive, November 2020 Age Cymru’s chief executive Victoria Lloyd explores the results of a nationwide survey of older people The results of our in-depth survey of older people’s experiences of ... hospital and GP appointments, while 78% of respondents said not being able to see friends and family was their biggest challenge. More than a 1,000 respondents completed the survey providing an invaluable insight
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process 9 3.1 Initial contact with the local authority and making a referral 9 3.2 Needs assessment for the person with care needs (and, where ... local authority’s duty to carry out an assessment 15 5.1 Duty to carry out an assessment for someone who requests one 15 5.2 Does the local authority have any duty to carry out
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Information about when and how to seek professional legal advice.
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EQUALITIES AND DIVERSITY MONITORING FORM Age Cymru is strongly committed to equality and diversity. This commitment is fundamental to the achievement of Age Cymru’s vision and objectives. So that we can measure ... if you would complete this fully anonymised monitoring form. The information gained from this form will be used for evaluation purposes only. If you would rather not answer the questions posed under any
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EQUALITIES AND DIVERSITY MONITORING FORM Age Cymru is strongly committed to equality and diversity. This commitment is fundamental to the achievement of Age Cymru’s vision and objectives. So that we can ... if you would complete this fully anonymised monitoring form. The information gained from this form will be used for evaluation purposes only. If you would rather not answer the questions posed under any
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of Practice guidance – relevance to the social care system in Wales 6 3 Background – obtaining help from your local authority and the financial ... authorities on the financial means test 7 3.3 The capital limit 9 3.4 Local authority duties in regard to information & advice and advocacy 10 4 Deprivation of assets and the financial means
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criteria, and how to make a claim. The factsheet explains how Carer’s Allowance may affect any other benefits you, or the person you care for, are receiving, and what to do if you have a change of circumstance ... The two benefits have broadly similar rules, so where the factsheet refers to Carer’s Allowance, the same information applies to Carer Support Payment. Where the rules for Carer Support Payment differ, that
