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Age Concern's response to the Social Care Institute for Excellence consultation on the new vision for adult social care
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The authors strongly challenge the distinction, made in SCIE’s introduction to the consultation, between ‘adults of working age’ and ‘older people’. It is misleading in that people are making, or would want to make, increasingly varied choices about how and when they withdraw from the workforce. It is discriminatory in that it implies that at a certain age (presumably 65) older people are no longer of ‘working age’. This assumption can – and does - encourage similar assumptions about the ability and right of older people to continue to contribute to and participate in society and to engage in personal and social development. This response represents an amalgamation of arguments drawn from existing Age Concern policies, research, and from Age Concern’s experience of providing care services.
Paying for care in Wales: creating a fair and sustainable system: green paper consultation on options for reform
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
In 2008 the Welsh Assembly Government held a major consultation and engagement programme on the general direction that reform of the social care system should take. The results of that consultation have helped to shape the proposals set out in this Green Paper. Reponses are invited to questions on disability benefits, bringing money into the system, different funding options, ways to contribute and whether there should be a nationally or a locally determined funding system.
Making vaccination a condition of deployment in older adult care homes: open consultation
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Place of publication:
- London
This consultation is seeking views on a proposal to make COVID-19 vaccination a condition of deployment in older adult care homes. Older adults living in care homes have been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic because of their heightened risk to COVID-19 infection, often with devastating consequences, as well as the risk of outbreaks in these closed settings. While vaccination uptake rates are increasing slowly week on week, there are still a high number of older adult care homes which do not have the level of protection needed to reduce the risk of outbreak. To increase vaccine take up, the government is considering amending the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. This would mean older adult care home providers could only use those staff who have received the COVID-19 vaccination (or those with a legitimate medical exemption) in line with government guidance. The deadline for responding to the consultation is Friday 21 May 2021 (Edited publisher abstract)