AGE CONCERN CANTON
- WYNDHAM STREET DAY CENTRE, 3-5, WYNDHAM STREET, TONGWYNLAIS
CF11 6DQ CARDIFF, SOUTH GLAMORGAN
Phone: +44 (0) 29 2023 3676
Fax: +44 (0) 1525 862282/ 862703
www.age-concern-cardiff.org.uk
Short profile:
We will help and support older people, especially those who are vulnerable, isolated, and in poverty, who are resident in Cardiff or the Vale of Glamorgan. Advocacy is identifying with and representing a person's views and concerns. Advocacy respects people's rights to control their own lives and make their own choices. Its emphasis is on empowering people not solving their problems for them. This may include enabling individuals to write letters or make phone calls and/or representing their wishes or negotiating with an outside agency.
Detailed description:
We don't always need someone else to arrange social care support for us - this is known, quite simply, as self-directed support. We have put together some help and advice around relevant legislation‚ the requirements of local authorities‚ current limitations and practical guidance. As there is no new legislation on which the government’s ‘personalisation’ policy has been based, it is necessary to show its legal foundations in the development of direct payments legislation and related guidance, and to emphasise that existing rights to social care provision have not changed.
This includes your right to be able to make informed choices whilst receiving the necessary levels of safeguarding from risks. Self directed assessment and support planning require appropriate information, advice and ongoing support to enable you to experience the overall aim of greater choice and control over service provision and funding arrangements.
You should not feel pressed into taking on more responsibility than you feel is necessary with regard to the planning and funding of your care package and you should be assisted to make arrangements that best suit your capacity and aims.
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