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Our report 'life on a low income' has cast new light on what life is like for older people in poverty in Wales
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This edition you can find out how to get hold of a copy of our Winter Wrapped Up guide and about the work Nest are doing in Wales to help with energy issues which is particularly pertinent when energy prices ... please let us know, together our voices for change are stronger. There are some great stories on the work of all local Age Cymru partners and opportunities for you to get involved. Until next time. Victoria
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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
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mainstream services more friendly to people living with dementia. It is based on our experience of working with more than 70 local Age UKs from 2012–2015 as part of the Dementia Friendly Programme, initially ... ‘The Place’ – how accessible is your environment? How accessible is the information you produce? Working with your local and regional partners Making use of internal resources Empowering your team to understand
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Age UK work with our national partners Age Scotland, Age Cymru and Age NI to influence administrations across the UK where issues are devolved. Age UK also supports programme and policy work in lower- ... that different forms of abuse often occur simultaneously - also present a challenge to agencies to work in partnership to tackle abuse holistically. Social protection There are 1.7 million older people
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
