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Proposals to extend age discrimination legislation (age goods, facilities and services): consultation document
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 118
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
This consultation sets out policy proposals to protect adults and young people aged 16 years and over from discrimination on the basis of age in relation to goods, facilities and services, charities, premises, education, public functions, and private clubs and associations. The scope of the proposals is therefore broader than goods, facilities and services alone. The proposals also cover health and social care and financial services, setting out the evidence of current discriminatory practice, scope and exceptions of proposals and how these would work in practice. The consultation ends on 8 October 2015. (Edited publisher abstract)
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.
Age equality in health and social care: a consultation on preparing the NHS and social care in England for the age requirements in the Equality Bill that affect the provision of services and exercise of public functions
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This consultation paper sets out recommendations on non-legislative action that the Department of Health (DH), and the National Health Service (NHS) and social care more generally, should take to prepare for the introduction of the new Equality Bill. which introduces a new equality duty and a ban on age discrimination to the public sector. Comments on the proposals in this consultation paper, the impact assessment and equality impact assessment are invited to be submitted to DH by 15 February 2010.