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Age Concern's comments on the consultation paper "Support for disabled people"
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Age Concern supports the government's intention to carry out a review of the welfare system in the consultation paper "Support for disabled people". However, the organisation expresses concern that this paper contains measures that continue the gradual shift from national insurance to means tested benefits without this being clearly stated and discussed.
Age Concern England's response to the consultation document: a new approach to social services performance; April 1999
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This response discusses age discrimination in the delivery of social services, variability of definitions of terms such as 'adult' and 'older people', and Age Concern's desire to see further performance indicators developed in the areas of inter-agency working, prevention and rehabilitation, assessment, charges for residential care, adaptations and complaints procedures.