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Learning disability strategic action plan 2022 to 2026
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Government
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This action plan sets out the Welsh Government's overarching strategic agenda for the development and implementation of learning disability policy for the remainder of the current term of government, 2022 to 2026. The action plan (and associated delivery plan) is a living document and will be updated to reflect any changes to priorities and circumstances as they arise. It is designed to be flexible and contains actions that can reasonably be expected to be achieved given the ongoing focus on pandemic recovery and limits on available resources. Priority areas identified in the plan include: overarching/cross-cutting, including cross-government activity that may not sit in one specific area; COVID recovery; health, including reducing health inequalities and avoidable deaths; social services and social care; facilitating independent living and access to services through increased access to advocacy and self-advocacy skills, engagement and collaboration; education including children and young people's services; employment and skills; housing - appropriate housing, close to home, access to joined-up services; and transport. (Edited publisher abstract)
Meeting housing demand: 1st report of session 2021-22
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. House of Lords. Built Environment Committee
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 108
- Place of publication:
- London
This report investigates the demographic and other trends shaping demand for new housing and considers how barriers to meeting demand can be overcome. It sets out the key factors shaping housing demand, including demographic trends (Chapter 2) and the expected shifts in the housing type and tenures required to accommodate these changes (Chapter 3). It then considers what can be done to address the depletion of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) housebuilders (Chapter 4) and how hurdles to meeting housing demand can be addressed. The report looks at the planning system (Chapter 5) and local government (Chapter 6) and considers what could be done to ensure the right types of homes can be built where they are needed. The report makes recommendations on how skills shortages can be addressed in the construction, planning, design and other industries (Chapter 7). Finally, the report considers how to promote quality new builds and encourage good design (Chapter 8). Key points highlighted in the report include: SMEs should be supported by reducing planning risk, making more small sites available, and increasing access to finance; the country needs more specialist and mainstream housing suitable for the elderly; more up-to-date local plans are needed, and these need to be simpler, clearer, and more transparent; skills shortages must be addressed, through broadening the base of talent, upskilling and reskilling, including for the green skills needed to address climate change. Government must change its approach to spending on housing. Over time the money spent on housing benefit should be invested in increasing the social housing stock. Right to Buy schemes are not good value for money: increasing the housing supply would be a more effective use of funding. The report focusses on England, as housing policy and the planning system are devolved. (Edited publisher abstract)
Changed priorities for a new dementia strategy
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, LLIFFE Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 25(2), 2017, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The authors' argue that a single cure for dementia may never be found and it is wrong for government policy to declare a "war on dementia". This is the third article in their series on what a new dementia strategy could look like. (Edited publisher abstract)
Raising the ambitions and educational attainment of children who are looked after in Wales: strategy
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Government
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 36
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This document describes the Welsh Government’s programme and its s key themes to tackle the educational underachievement of children who are looked after. Chapter 1 describes the current legislative and policy position and statistics for children who are looked after; chapter 2 outlines the case for change setting out the performance of the children and the challenges they face; Chapter 3 provides the legislative and policy framework to help support children and promote their educational attainment; and Chapter 4 identifies a range of actions to be taken at all levels to strengthen educational outcomes. (Edited publisher abstract)
NHS 2010-2015: from good to great: preventative, people-centred, productive
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out government strategy for the development of the NHS in England over the five years from 2010 to 2015.
New deal for carers: revision of the Prime Minister's 1999 strategy on carers: Health and Social Care Taskforce report
- Authors:
- MUIR Craig, WEBBER Jo
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The carers' strategy sets out the Government's short-term agenda and long-term vision for the future care and support of carers The carers' strategy is underpinned by £255 million to implement some immediate steps alongside with medium and long-term plans. New commitments in the carers’ strategy include: £150 million towards planned short breaks for carers; £38 million towards supporting carers to enter or re-enter the job market and £6 million towards improving support for young carers. Other schemes include the piloting of annual health checks for carers to help them stay well and training for GPs to recognise and support carers. A more integrated and personalised support service for carers will be offered through easily accessible information, targeted training for key professionals to support carers, and pilots to examine how the NHS can better support carers.
Our national health: a plan for action, a plan for change
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Health Department
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This plan provides a statement of the national priorities for health and for the NHS but is not intended merely as a policy statement but as a plan for action.
How will it be after Griffiths?
- Author:
- PHILLIPS M.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 28.9.89, 1989, p.20.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Urges managers not to wait for the forthcoming White Paper on Community Care, but to start planning, take soundings and explore options and networking.
Strategy for an ageing society: delivery plan 2022
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Government
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 23
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This strategy document sets out the Welsh Government's delivery plan in 2022 to create an age friendly Wales that supports people of all ages to live and age well. The strategy has two top level domains: supporting local authorities to work with partners to create age friendly communities; and promoting a rights based approach. The strategy has four aims: enhancing well-being; improving local services and environments; building and retaining people's own capability; and tackling age related poverty. Priorities are themed around: improving support for unpaid carers; Improving access to health, social care services and mental health services; improving local services and environments in relation to housing; open spaces and buildings and transport; community participation; preventing abuse of older people; planning for the future; skills and lifelong learning; commencing the socio-economic duty; increasing take up of pension credit and investing in Wales' foundational economy. (Edited publisher abstract)
Government preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for government on risk: forty-sixth report of session 2021–22
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. House of Commons
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 23
- Place of publication:
- London
The UK government was underprepared for a pandemic like COVID-19. The pandemic has exposed limitations in how the government manages risks, especially those that cut across institutional boundaries and affect multiple areas of society, and a failure to learn from actual incidents and simulation exercises. To learn from COVID-19 and be better prepared for the next major crisis, government needs to introduce robust central leadership, accountability and oversight for cross-cutting risks. It also needs to reduce variability in departments’ risk management capabilities, their understanding of government’s risk tolerance, and their interpretation and application of government’s risk management guidance. Government’s slow progress in improving data quality and completeness has hampered its preparedness for this and future pandemics – as part of its response, government should set out how it plans to retain access to the social care data required to respond to future pandemics. Greater public awareness of the main risks facing the country and of what government is doing to address them would bring significant benefits, from focusing officials’ minds to making the public more aware of what is being done to protect them from harm. Given the global nature of major risks, and the fact that many other governments were underprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government also needs to promote greater international collaboration, integration and foresight to improve global readiness for emergencies. (Edited publisher abstract)