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and Toolkit Ministerial Foreword I am pleased to be able to introduce the National Framework for Commissioning independent professional advocacy for Adults in Wales. I want to emphasise that securing ... and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 for adults. An element of the project was to develop the Framework. I believe this Framework provides a sustainable strategic approach to improving the availability of advocacy
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Adroddiad Sut Wyt Ti? Rhagfyr 2021 1. Cyflwyniad Mae Sut Wyt Ti? yn brosiect ymgysylltu sydd yn anelu i gasglu gwybodaeth am brofiadau preswylwyr cartrefi gofal yn ystod pandemig Covid-19. Ariennir y prosiect ... yn ystod ein sgyrsiau gyda phobl a fu’n byw mewn cartrefi gofal yn ystod 2021, adeg heriol tu hwnt i gartrefi gofal oherwydd y pandemig fyd-eang. Mae’r adroddiad yn trafod amrywiaeth o bersbectifau a leisiwyd
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Account switching should be a simple transaction, not one that can be unnecessarily complex and hugely frustrating, especially for older people who can face numerous barriers trying to get a good deal Teaser ... launched the Age UK Financial Services Commission to examine how the financial resilience of older people can be improved. In summer 2014, we will set out a roadmap of actions that
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space in a partner office, covering the North and Mid Wales Region Contractual Status of Role: Part time, 17.5 hours per week Fixed term until December 2024 Job Title of Line Manager: Regional Coordinator ... Implement the volunteer recruitment plan for the region. 2. Process all volunteer applications in a timely and professional way, taking the prospective volunteers through the Community Assistance Project
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factsheet covers what deprivation of liberty means, the required procedure for authorisation, the procedures and protections required once someone has been deprived of their liberty, and what can be done if ... Age Scotland or Age NI. Contact details can be found at the back of this factsheet. Contact details of any of the organisations mentioned in this factsheet can be found in the Useful organisations section
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Diversity in older age – Older homelessness The characteristics of older homelessness can change rapidly over time and may differ significantly from place to place. This review will focus on older homelessness ... household can enjoy privacy and their emotional life (Social Domain); and a living space which a household has a legal title to occupy (Legal Domain). Within the ETHOS framework, homelessness can take four
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the need to regulate special procedure services, there is a need to provide advice to the public on what services are regulated and why. As such it is important that the introduction of licencing of special ... ear-ahead---june-2022.pdf 2 important that such campaigns consider how digitally excluded people can be reached. Age Cymru is a registered charity 1128436. Company limited by guarantee and registered
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the criteria. Some officers apply a reasonable interpretation of the guidelines, while others take what seems to us to be a very harsh approach. This is particularly true in the case of people with mental ... 2 issues, eg, where someone with dementia has been discharged by their consultant as nothing more can be done to improve their condition, without proof of their impairment; a letter from their GP is not
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there is a great deal of work to be done. Negative stereotyping of older workers is rife, and this can prevent many people from changing jobs or progressing their careers as they would like. Employer ... disadvantage older workers, with the over 50s often viewed as being less able and productive in the workplace.i Such attitudes are unfounded, as shown by recent research published by Age UK.ii This demonstrates that
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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 be living in poverty when their resources ... resources are not enough to meet their basic needs and also to allow them to take part in society.i This could mean struggling to cover food and energy bills, watching every penny spent, worrying that
