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Cymru local partners and Age Connects Wales partners throughout Wales. HOPE is funded by Welsh Government under the Sustainable Social Services Grant until the end of March 2025. This exciting project
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of the older person is heard by ensuring that advocacy for older people is part of the Welsh Government’s Health and Social Services Bill; whatever the needs of older people in Wales the Age Cymru network
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that consumer protection is placed at the forefront of policy-making. The regulatory rules that govern providers are an essential part of the protection landscape, and the FCA must continue to ensure ... reviews of the marketplace. We are pleased that FCA is reminding firms of the importance of good governance in product design, but would like to see further details of how this will be monitored. The vast
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and personal barriers (for example low levels of IT skills). The Work Programme is the flagship Government scheme providing support to the long-term unemployed, using mainly private sector contractors operating ... of how they will fit into any future system. 2. Key points and policy recommendations • As the Government designs ‘Work Programme 2’, it must embed the Extending Working Lives Agenda at the heart of its
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be on tranquilisers or similar drug therapies. These issues have in the past been recognised by government, setting out to significantly improve older people’s access to psychological therapies. However ... weeks of referral, and 95% should be treated within 18 weeks of referral. In January 2016, the Government pledged an extra £1 billon to improve mental health services across England22 and in February,
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resources from year to year’. 6 Recent public spending reforms 16. The current Government, and the previous Coalition Government, have introduced a series of reforms that will reduce public spending. So far ... made huge savings in the Pensions Bill, bigger than any other saving I’ve made anywhere else in government, by increasing the pension age’.xii 19. As the Committee knows from its recent inquiry into understanding
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is being undertaken by key organisations that represent older people. It is important that Welsh Government and others hear from older people about their experiences of the lockdown and the impact that this
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is being undertaken by key organisations that represent older people.It is important that Welsh Government and others hear from older people about their experiences of the lockdown and the impact that this
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range of communication tools to support the work of our Dementia Advocacy project, funded by Welsh Government through the Gwent Regional Partnership Board to support older people with dementia and those who
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their usual support networks will increase. We hope that in developing this framework that Welsh Government will consider the resources needed to deliver this framework and provide bereaved people with the ... bereavement from the pandemic. Whilst this framework will take some time to finalise, we urge Welsh Government to commit to make additional resources available to bereavement support services for at least the
