AGE CONCERN HYNDBURN
- 288-290, UNION ROAD, OSWALDTWISTLE
BB5 3JD ACCRINGTON, LANCASHIRE
Phone: +44 (0) 1254 236984
Fax: +44 (0) 1752 257320
www.ageconcernlancs.org.uk
Short profile:
We will actively develop and promote well-being initiatives that will help all Lancashire’s older people lead healthy and active lives.We will ensure older people have influence over and are actively involved in local decision-making, policy development and service delivery. We will ensure older people are fully informed so they have choice and control to live their lives independently and as they choose. We will be the leading deliverer of appropriate, responsive, quality services for older people. We will be an effective partner that is able to influence strategic planning, promote good practice and challenge discrimination relating to older people. We will develop and maintain an organisation with an effective infrastructure to be able to meet the challenges that will provide opportunities and improve the well-being of older people.
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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