AGE CONCERN STOCKPORT
- 99, CASTLE STREET
SK3 9AR STOCKPORT, CHESHIRE
Phone: +44 (0) 161 477 4167
Fax: - 01484 517351
www.ageconcernstockport.org.uk
Short profile:
Age Concern Stockport is a local registered charity and all our efforts and resources are used for the benefit of people within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. The organisation is a fully independent charity, and in addition we are full members of the national Age Concern federation. Age Concern Stockport provides a wide range of services and activities in order to deliver on our mission. In line with the organisation’s constitution all these services are designed to benefit people over the age of fifty living in Stockport. Through an ongoing planning and review process the new visions and mission are linked through the values, aims and objectives to all of our work.
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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