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Care self funders need access to financial advice
- Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Leading longevity and demographic change think-tank, the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK) today announces a new initiative to provide a focus for all stakeholders in the care funding advice pathway to ensure that care self-funders have access to regulated financial advice about meeting their care costs.
New legislation will encourage better joined-up working between the social care sector and other key stakeholders, including central and local government, financial advisers, care providers, and firms offering financial services products. For the system to work smoothly, this community will need to work seamlessly together.
What will the Dilnot recommendations mean for you?
- Monday, 25 March 2013
We all know that the Government has significantly diluted the recommendations made in the Dilnot Report on paying for care.
But what will the financial landscape actually look like when these recommendations come into force? How much will it cost… who will be exempt and who will actually be paying… and what steps can families take to insure themselves against these costs?
Cuts to transport services devastating for older people
- Monday, 25 March 2013
Thousands of older people are being unnecessarily socially excluded, a report by older people’s charity WRVS warns today as 342,000 over 75 year olds said they feel trapped in their own home through lack of suitable transport.
The situation for many has been exacerbated by recent cuts.
Fourteen per cent of older people have been hit by a reduction in public transport services and ten per cent say they now get out and about less because they have no way of getting out by themselves.
'Rating providers for quality: a policy worth pursuing?'
- Friday, 22 March 2013
Director of Policy, Simon Bottery, said:
"We welcome the Nuffield Trust's recognition that for too long, users of care services have struggled to find useful information on quality and choice, often turning instead to family and friends when making what can be hugely expensive decisions about care.
Goverment's social care plan all 'smoke and mirrors'
- Thursday, 21 March 2013
Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has warned that the government’s proposals on social care are little more than “smoke and mirrors” when local authorities are likely to be cutting services as a result of reductions in council budgets.
Dot Gibson, NPC general secretary said: “In yesterday’s Budget the Chancellor announced a plan to bring in a cap on care costs of £72,000 in 2016, but failed to highlight how local councils will face a further one per cent cut in their budgets for 2014/15, on top of those which have already been introduced.
Cuts to social care inevitable following Budget
- Wednesday, 20 March 2013
“We are extremely worried to see a new further one percent reduction in local council budgets from 2014-15 announced in today’s Budget, on top of those previously confirmed.
"This will inevitably mean cuts to essential social care services, which make up most councils’ largest item of expenditure, and extra pressure on older people, their families and carers already struggling to access care and support.
Introduction of a care cap welcome news
- Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Responding to the announcement in today’s Budget that the introduction of cap on what an individual will pay for care will be brought forward by one year to 2016, Cllr David Rogers, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, said:
“For many older and disabled people bringing forward the introduction of a care cap will be welcome news, but we need to make sure it’s done so in a way that is properly managed and resourced.
Budget announcement 'less Aspiration Nation more Aspirin Nation'
- Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has said today’s Budget announcement was less “Aspiration Nation” and more “Aspirin Nation” given that it will have left millions of older people with a severe financial headache on issues such as pensions and social care.
Fuel poverty report card – all must try harder
- Tuesday, 19 March 2013
An analysis of initiatives to address fuel poverty across the UK reveals disturbing inconsistencies in policy and practice across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The UK Fuel Poverty Monitor, published by the charities NEA, which operates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Energy Action Scotland in partnership with Consumer Focus, attempts to evaluate the different approaches in addressing fuel poverty across the UK. It compares and scrutinises relevant policy areas where the Governments and Assemblies have adopted different approaches in tackling fuel poverty, with a view to identifying good practice and replicating this across the other nations.
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