Social care white paper

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Social care white paper represents massive failure

Published 11 July 2012
The Government is due to release a White Paper setting out proposals for reform of the social care system and a report on options for the future funding of social care.
This is widely reported to include proposals on deferring care payments until after death and a national framework to determine who can access care, but no commitment for funding reform. People with dementia are some of the hardest hit by the current means tested system, which often sees people with dementia pay tens of thousands of pounds for essential care.
Alzheimer's Society comment:

'Millions of vulnerable people had been promised radical reform but today they are being massively let down. Every day without a funding decision is another day where people, including those with dementia, face huge costs for often substandard care. If reports are true, this White Paper is not worth the paper it's written on.'

'This is an avoidable crisis which is too important to be lost in a political storm. We need urgent discussions with Government about how to fund a fairer, more sustainable care system.'

Jeremy Hughes
Chief Executive
Alzheimer's Society

http://alzheimers.org.uk/site/script...hp?newsID=1253

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Re: Social care white paper

No more delays : carers can't wait

Responding to the publication of the social care White Paper, draft Care and Support Bill and progress report on funding, Carers UK Chief Executive Heléna Herklots said:
“Every one of us will need or provide care to ill, frail or disabled loved ones at some point in our lives. We all need to know that, when caring affects us, we have the right to support and services to enable us to stay healthy and live lives alongside caring.
The Government’s proposals for reforming social care law are a real step forward in the rights of carers. The measures set out in the draft Care and Support Bill would move from piecemeal carers’ rights legislation to the establishment of carers’ rights in Government legislation and, for the first time, equalise carers’ rights with disabled people rights. This is significant progress for a group who frequently feel like second class citizens - unrecognised for the contribution they make to society and left in ill-health and financial hardship as a result of caring.
But to make these rights a reality, what carers also need is a social care system with the resources to overcome years of chronic underfunding and rapidly growing demand. Those who face soaring care bills, service cuts and a daily struggle to access even basic support from the social care system, may see new rights in legislation as empty promises without the funding to back them up.
There are over a million people caring for over 50 hours a week in the country – many feel pushed to breaking point and are desperate for support now. These carers were looking to this announcement to show that the Government recognises the urgency of this crisis in social care – they will despair at yet more delay in tackling the fundamental challenge of social care funding.”

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