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The importance and impact of community services within Wales
- Author:
- OLDER PEOPLE'S COMMISSIONER FOR WALES
- Publisher:
- Older People's Commissioner for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 45
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This report makes a strong business case for key local and community-based services and facilities, such as buses and community transport, public toilets, pavements, public seating, outdoor areas, libraries, leisure facilities, and community and day centres. The report argues that community services are essential to the health, wealth, and wellbeing of villages, towns, cities and communities and the overall health of the economy and as a result they should be regarded as community assets rather than costs. They are essential to enable older people to continue to make a contribution and to undertake activities that have economic benefit. Community services are fundamental to the prevention of frailty and maintenance of health and wellbeing of older people and they are integral to the delivery of key policy priorities and statutory services cost containment. The report calls on local authorities to engage and consult more effectively with older people when key decisions are made about community services and concludes that a real culture shift is required in terms of community service planning and delivery, moving towards a more sustainable, innovative, long-term, integrated approach to secure better outcomes with fewer resources. (Edited publisher abstract)
Equality and human rights impact assessments: guidance for local authorities
- Author:
- OLDER PEOPLE'S COMMISSIONER FOR WALES
- Publisher:
- Older People's Commissioner for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 39
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This guidance is designed to ensure that robust equality and human rights impact assessments (EHRIAs) are undertaken when changes to community services are proposed, essential to ensure that there is not a disproportionate impact upon older people and that alternative approaches are considered. Non-statutory community services such as day centres, public toilets, libraries and transport are as important to older people’s health, independence and wellbeing as statutory health and social care services but are at risk due to reductions in public spending. Part 1 examines the importance of current equality impact assessments and promotes the need to use EHRIAs when changes to community services are being considered. Part 2 examines the crucial role of scrutiny around changes to community services and is targeted towards elected members and officers in local government. The aim is to improve the quality of scrutiny and ensure that the impact of closing down or reducing the provision of a community service on older people is thoroughly and rigorously analysed and considered. (Edited publisher abstract)
Best practice guidance for engagement and consultation with older people on changes to community services in Wales
- Author:
- OLDER PEOPLE'S COMMISSIONER FOR WALES
- Publisher:
- Older People's Commissioner for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This guidance is intended for local authorities when proposing changes to community services, to ensure full and meaningful engagement with older people when key decisions are being made regarding services and facilities that are important to them. These include local buses, public toilets, libraries, day and community centres, and lifelong learning. Local authorities must have regard to this guidance when discharging their functions and the Older People’s Commissioner will use it as a standard by which to assess the extent to which they are safeguarding and promoting the interests of older people in Wales. This document outlines the legal context, sets out the duties of local authorities to pursue practical engagement with older people and describes a framework of requirements for a more formal, focused engagement through consultation. Guidance on the role of equality impact assessment in engagement and consultation is also included. (Edited publisher abstract)