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Health Boards and local authority social services departments 6 2 Welsh Government / NHS Wales guidance on – or relevant to – hospital discharge 7 2.1 Background information ... Advocacy services – for support during the care needs assessment and care planning processes 33 8.1 What is advocacy? 33 8.2 Advocacy from a charitable or voluntary organisation 33 8.3 Advocacy from Llais
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and Older People AGM Monday 31st October 2016 5pm-6pm Committee Room 21, HOC Minutes of the AGM held on 31st October 2016 in Committee Room 21, House of Commons Present: Parliamentarians: Nusrat Ghani ... as Secretary of the Group. Discussion: The discussion during the second part of the meeting focused on the future work programme for the APPG. A draft work programme had previously been discussed by the
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they have been assessed as needing. Future arrangements for funding social care should ensure fairness on the “who pays” and “how we pay” for social care, including between the generations, and should aspire ... need and spread the cost of care services across the generations, instead of the cost simply falling on those people unfortunate enough to develop care needs. A new, fair and sustainable mechanism for funding
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Europe’s report, Human rights of older persons and their comprehensive care, was produced by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, aiming to promote human rights of older persons ... calls on the Committee of Ministers to consider a legally binding instrument. The report was adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 30 May 2017 and the resolution called on member
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Freedom to Speak Up Review Consultation on the implementation of the recommendations, principles and actions set out in the report of the Freedom to Speak Up Review Ref: 1115 Date: June 2015 ... services should seek to embed the Review’s principles within their practices and processes, building on the full range of relevant existing measures such as the NHS Constitution and the new statutory duty
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carers, looking at what works – and crucially what’s needed – to improve their employment prospects. And new analysis for this report finds that caring has a statistically significant impact on employment prospects ... impacts 29 Financial scarring 29 Wider impacts 30 Impacts on employers 30 Societal impacts 31 Gaps in the later life workforce/care supply 31 4. What makes a difference? – Supporting carers to remain in work
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between, but are essential if people are to work for longer. We recommend the Government focusses policy on improving engagement among older workers, whether through public or employer funded provision. o All ... impact of 24+ Advanced Learning Loans in more detail, as they appear to have had a negative impact on participation in Further Education. There is also currently an ongoing debate about job quality
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Port Talbot Llys y Seren Moor Road Aberavon Port Talbot SA12 7BJ The role of volunteers and what they’ll be doing The volunteer’s role will solely be to have conversations with residents and to ... conversations. We also hope, with the help of your own Activities Coordinator and the guidance of one of Age Cymru’s experienced art practitioners, to initiate a themed project with you, which could again
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and gives information about older people living on a low income: the extent of poverty in later life, changes over time and who is at greatest risk. What do we mean by poverty? We consider people to ... after housing costs: we generally use the after housing costs figures because this is what people are left to live on after meeting their essential accommodation costs. 2 A wide range of information about
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monitors the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department of Energy and Climate Change on behalf of the House of Commons and the electorate. It has invited written evidence for its inquiry ... (ECO) and the Green Deal – failed to deliver significant results, and how can they be improved. We draw on our own understanding of older people, as well as two reports we commissioned the think tank ResPublica
