Posted in News on Feb 12th, 2010
As Labour prepares to release a White Paper on the new structure of social care in England, the government is coming under fire for its Personal Care at Home bill, which will form part of the new National Care Service. The bill, which promises to provide free home care for people aged over 65 and [...]
Posted in News on Nov 30th, 2009
Wales has launched a consultation period on the reform of its social care structure and funding system. Entitled ‘Paying for Care’, the consultation Green Paper can be downloaded or read from a new, dedicated website www.payingforcareinwales.net. The website will be kept updated with the latest developments in and responses to the consultation process [...]
Posted in News on Nov 18th, 2009
As the consultation period for the English social care Green Paper ends, Wales is launching its own consultation process into the future of the country’s social care services and funding structure. The Welsh Green Paper, entitled ‘Paying for care in Wales: creating a fair and sustainable system’, is divided into two parts: the shape [...]
Posted in News on Nov 18th, 2009
Plaid Cymru Assembly Member Leanne Wood has voiced her concern over the effect on the Welsh disabled population of the UK Government choosing to scrap Attendance Allowance (AA). The abolition of AA is proposed in the English Green Paper, published in July 2009, as part of the shake-up of the social care system. [...]
Posted in News on Nov 14th, 2009
Deputy Welsh Assembly Minister Gwenda Thomas has announced that a Green Paper will shortly be published proposing new ways of funding social care in Wales. Writing in Wales Online, Ms Thomas explains how the Green Paper will bring together ideas and opinions put forward in a national debate on paying for social care that [...]
Posted in News on Nov 14th, 2009
The Care & Support Alliance, a group of charities which have joined forces to protect public interests during the reform of the English social care system, has criticised the Government for withholding financial modelling data that underpins the proposals put forward in July’s Green Paper. With the Big Care Debate on the verge of [...]
Posted in News on Nov 14th, 2009
A group of care home owners has formed a coalition called the Fairer Fee Forum to try and bring to an end the differing fee levels that they say they are forced to charge. The providers have admitted that self-funders are paying considerably more per week – sometimes more than £200 – in order [...]
Posted in News on Nov 3rd, 2009
The Learning Disability Coalition (LDC), a group of 15 charities that campaigns for the rights of adults with physical and mental disabilities, has warned that the proposed National Care Service focuses too much on caring for the elderly at the expense of younger adults with life-long disabilities. The LDC argues that, as the proportion [...]
Posted in News on Oct 30th, 2009
Health Secretary Andy Burnham has announced that the DLA benefit will not now be abolished to help fund the forthcoming ‘National Care Service’ that is outlined in July’s Green Paper. The news will come as a relief to the 2.5 million disabled adults aged under 65 that currently claim the benefit. Plans put [...]
Posted in News on Oct 15th, 2009
In July’s Green Paper on the future of the social care system and its funding, one of the ideas put forward was the abolition of certain disability benefits and the re-routing of the resulting funds into social care provision. The benefits in question are Attendance Allowance (AA) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) which are [...]
