AGE CONCERN YORK
- 215A, BURTON STONE LANE
YO30 6EB YORK, NORTH YORKSHIRE
Phone: +44 (0) 1904 635917
Fax: +44 (0) 131 220 3550
www.ageconcernyork.org.uk
Short profile:
Age Concern York has been working for older people in York for over thirty years. We provide a wide range of personal and practical support, including giving advice, arranging for respite care and friendly visitors, helping people after a stay in hospital, doing small jobs in the house and garden and running trips, holidays and other leisure activities. Age Concern York encourages older people themselves to speak out about local and national issues. We are involved in group discussions at senior management level with statutory agencies to enable joint planning of the provision of appropriate services for 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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