[{"topic":"Community care","id":"43678","proposer":"24794","edm":"2582","session":"2010-12","title":"Drum Brae Library And Community Hub","text":"That this House welcomes the construction of the Drum Brae Library and Community Hub which will open to the public at the end of January 2012; notes that the centre will include a day care centre for older people as well as adult learning facilities, community information, internet access points and health information; further notes that the project was completed on time and on budget by Edinburgh City Council; believes that the new Library and Community Hub will become a focal point for the local communities of Drum Brae, Clermiston, Clerwood, East Craigs and Parkgrove; supports the co-location of community services at the Hub with housing officers, police community safety teams and others from the West Neighbourhood Team on the site; and furtherbelieves that such co-location will give greater connection between residents and those services which are most important to them.","date":"2012-01-11","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"43393","proposer":"11323","edm":"2305","session":"2010-12","title":"College Of Social Work (No. 2)","text":"That this House notes with concern the issues raised by the British Association of Social Workers in respect of the proper establishment and appropriate use of public funds in relation to the establishment of a College of Social Work; further notes the failure to tender for the 5 million contract awarded to the Social Care Institute for Excellence; further notes the failure to tender for trade union services agreed on an unknown basis with Unison; further notes with concern the awarding of a contract to administer the 25 million per annum Social Work Education Grant to the College without any tendering process;urges the Government to act immediately to place the College on an ethical and sustainable footing; andcalls for an inquiry into the matter.","date":"2011-10-25","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"43122","proposer":"24953","edm":"2051","session":"2010-12","title":"Delivery Of Adult Social Care","text":"That this House notes thatcross-party commitment and co-operation is urgently needed to reform the way that adult social care is delivered; acknowledges the desire amongst all parties for this reform; recognises how important it is that the reports of the Law Commission and Commission on Funding of Care and Support are acted upon; further notes that local government is ready to work with central government on this extremely pressing agenda; and calls for immediate and detailed debate on how to take reforms forward and a subsequent care and support reform White Paper and Bill to follow promptly.","date":"2011-07-11","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"42964","proposer":"24852","edm":"1897","session":"2010-12","title":"Carers In Walsall South","text":"That this House notes that National Carers Week takes place from 13 to 19 June 2011; acknowledges the invaluable role of carers of all ages in Walsall South and across the UK; recognises that these carers provide vital support to vulnerable people in society; further notes that their hard work and commitment can regrettably go unnoticed; welcomes Carers Week as a great opportunity to raise awareness of the services they provide; thanks the almost 10,000 carers in Walsall South who give so much for others; applauds these carers, and the organisations that support them, for their selflessness and dedication; further notes that in Walsall South, more than 1,200 carers are in poor health and almost 5,000 are juggling work and care; and calls on the Government to recognise and support the contribution of carers to society, not only during Carers Week, but at all times.","date":"2011-06-09","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"42932","proposer":"10428","edm":"1865","session":"2010-12","title":"BBC Panorama Report On Abuse Of People With Learning Disabilities","text":"That this House was shocked by the recent BBC Panorama report broadcast on 31 May 2011 which exposed appalling abuse of people with learning disabilities in the Winterbourne View residential home; is aware of the existence in the UK of the Association for Real Change, a membership organisation for providers of services to people with a learning disability, which requires all of its members to sign up to a code of practice which promotes high quality support in their centres; notes that legislation is urgently required to ensure that at the heart of any UK social care legislation or guidelines must be the commitment to thehuman rights of people with learning disabilities together with a guarantee that such citizens receive the high quality support they need to live their lives in the way they want; and calls on the Government to examine carefully its Social Care White Paper to ensure this applies.","date":"2011-06-07","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"42933","proposer":"11672","edm":"1866","session":"2010-12","title":"Reform Of The Care And Support System","text":"That this House acknowledges that the current system of care and support is in crisis and that, despite initiatives to improve early intervention, personalise services, increase choice and control, support carers and end age discrimination, the system is under-resourced and unable to deliver on these promises; looks forward to the publication of the review by the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support, chaired by Andrew Dilnot, on potential options for reform; recognises that with an ageing population and increasing numbers of people with disabilities throughout the age spectrum, providing future care needs will necessitate an increase in the percentage of gross domestic product that is spent on care both to deliver good quality care for people with low incomes and some support for mid and high income groups; and calls on the Government, with the Care and Support Alliance, made up of the 51 leading care charities and organisations, to ensure that urgent action is taken to create a sustainable care and support system.","date":"2011-06-07","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"42696","proposer":"10222","edm":"1645","session":"2010-12","title":"Future Of Social Work","text":"That this House recognises the critical role of social work in protecting, supporting and empowering children and adults made vulnerable by disability, old age, ill health and personal circumstances; notes the international definition of social work by the International Federation of Social Work and approved by the United Nations and supports its inclusion in the Health and Social Care Bill; further recognises that the role and functions of social workers should be protected; and calls for the establishment of a chief social worker to report to Parliament annually on the state of social work as well as statutory powers for a College of Social Work to ensure that the voices of social workers are heard.","date":"2011-03-23","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"42383","proposer":"11406","edm":"1362","session":"2010-12","title":"College Of Social Work","text":"That this House recognises the vital role of social work in protecting, helping and empowering children and adults in vulnerable situations at critical times in their lives; notes the 2009 Social Work Taskforce recommendation for the creation of an independent national college of social work, developed and led by social workers; supports the establishment of a College of Social Work which is independent of Government, led by and accountable to social workers and strong enough to influence the development of the profession; and therefore calls on the Government to support the establishment of such a college, without public subsidy, delivering a truly independent voice for the social work profession.","date":"2011-01-27","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"42201","proposer":"10428","edm":"1189","session":"2010-12","title":"Jigsaw Charity And Support For Vulnerable People","text":"That this House is aware of the many excellent projects which have evolved under the umbrella of the Government's Supporting People programme, designed to give practical support to older, disabled and vulnerable people in the community; praises the work of Jigsaw, a registered charity based in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, which currently runs a wide range of projects helping many people who otherwise would cost Government, local authorities and other services such as the NHS considerably higher levels of finance to meet their ongoing needs; believes it to be both common sense and good governance to ensure such an organisation, operating as it does in areas suffering from high levels of multiple deprivation and therefore needing such preventative support services, is allowed to continue its work; and calls on the Government and Nottinghamshire County Council to do whatever is necessary to allow it to do so.","date":"2010-12-13","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"42155","proposer":"10715","edm":"1147","session":"2010-12","title":"Impact Of Travel On Children With Cancer","text":"That this House notes that December is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and welcomes CLIC Sargent's new report A Long Way From Home: the impact of travel on children and young people with cancer; recognises the significant distances many children and young people with cancer must travel for treatment because of the specialist nature of the treatment required; further notes with concern that the report finds that 77 per cent. of children with cancer must travel outside of their home city to receive specialist and age-appropriate treatment and care and that an average round-trip for treatment is 60 miles; further recognises that travel to and from treatment can exacerbate the emotional, practical and social difficulties faced by children, young people and families affected by childhood cancer in addition to creating further significant burderns; congratulates CLIC Sargent for the work it carries out in providing vital support for children and young people with cancer and enabling them to spend more time at home during treatment; and therefore encourages the Government to work with CLIC Sargent to look at ways in which to minimise the impact of travelling while ensuring safe and effective treatment for children and young people with cancer.","date":"2010-12-06","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"42113","proposer":"10023","edm":"1109","session":"2010-12","title":"Hft And Learning And Disability Charities","text":"That this House recognises the vital work performed by charities across the country to help adults with learning disabilities; supports the ongoing efforts of charities and private enterprises that work to ensure an excellent quality of life for people with learning disabilities; congratulates Hft on its use of personalised technology to provide outstanding support to people with learning disabilities, including their work on the Virtual Smarthouse; applauds Hft for its record of innovation, which has been recognised by the Laing Buisson Independent Health Care Award for Best Use of Technology; acknowledges that the use of technology can deliver excellent levels of care whilst saving public money; and calls on the Government to support the use of proven technology as it considers how to reform social care.","date":"2010-11-30","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"41939","proposer":"13856","edm":"950","session":"2010-12","title":"Financial Support For Social Care","text":"That this House welcomes the pledge to provide an additional 2 billion to social care but recognises that this support could be lost by the removal of family household income through benefit reductions; and calls for assistance to be provided to carers and their families to help them survive financially.","date":"2010-11-03","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"41630","proposer":"10029","edm":"671","session":"2010-12","title":"Care For The Elderly","text":"That this House celebrates the increasing diversity and vitality of Britain's over 65s; notes that more has to be done to acknowledge and protect the care needs of older people as demographic changes increase the proportion of the population who are elderly; recognises the need to protect and increase social care funding while consulting on long-term care; and believes that the views of older people themselves should be considered when identifying spending priorities.","date":"2010-09-06","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"41389","proposer":"11489","edm":"446","session":"2010-12","title":"Shelter Cymru","text":"That this House commends Shelter Cymru's Information Matters to Rural Communities Project, which aims to improve awareness of services to alleviate homelessness and poverty, being run in Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire; welcomes the funding provided by the Big Lottery Fund; recognises the lack of readily available advice and support in rural areas and the additional stigma attached to these issues in rural communities; further welcomes the distribution of 3,000 information packs containing advice on housing, debt, welfare benefits, rural well-being and contacts to obtain specialist advice in the three counties; and congratulates Shelter Cymru for the important work it has donein ensuring people in rural areas are able to access all the help available.","date":"2010-07-08","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"40996","proposer":"10295","edm":"81","session":"2010-12","title":"Not Doomed Yet-Campaign For Social Work","text":"That this House welcomes Not Doomed Yet - the campaign for social work, instigated by the British Association of Social Workers in response to a suggestion by the BBC PM presenter Eddie Mair that children who need to be protected by social workers may be doomed because of pressures on costs; recognises the critical role of social work in protecting, supporting and empowering children and adults made vulnerable by disability, old age, ill health and personal circumstances; acknowledges research which demonstrates a reduction in child deaths over 32 years through effective social work practice; and urges the Government to give priority to investing in social work, even at a time of public expenditure cuts, so that no-one in the UK can ever be written off as doomed.","date":"2010-05-26","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"40918","proposer":"11707","edm":"4","session":"2010-12","title":"Minimum Wage Rates And Support Workers","text":"That this House recognises the valuable work of support workers who provide overnight support to vulnerable adults; notes with concern that employers are able to pay rates below the minimum wage to support staff who sleep over but remain on call throughout the night; further recognises that it is often impossible for staff to spend any time asleep while on shift; and therefore urges the Government to bring forward proposals to put an end to the legal practice of paying support workers below the minimum wage for their sleep rate and to ensure that they are paid the minimum wage for sleep over hours.","date":"2010-05-25","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"40000","proposer":"11707","edm":"432","session":"2009-10","title":"Minimum Wage Rates And Support Workers","text":"That this House recognises the valuable work of support workers who provide overnight support to vulnerable adults; notes with concern that employers are able to pay rates below the minimum wage to support staff who sleepover but remain on call throughout the night; further recognises that it is often impossible for staff to spend any time asleep while on shift; and therefore urges the Government to bring forward proposals to put an end to the legal practice of paying support workers below the minimum wage for their sleep rate and to ensure that they are paid the minimum wage for sleepover hours.","date":"2009-12-10","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39902","proposer":"10900","edm":"342","session":"2009-10","title":"Carers' Rights Day 2009 Campaign","text":"That this House notes that 4 December is Carers' Rights Day 2009 and congratulates the organisers of the 1,500 events taking place across the UK which will inform carers about their rights and entitlements; further notes that Carers UK and the Department for Work and Pensions are calling on carers to check that they get all the financial help and practical support to which they may be entitled, including their future pension entitlement; welcomes changes to the state pension coming into force in April 2010, including the new Carers Credit which will help carers to protect their pension in the future; expresses concern about new Carers UK research which found that over a third of carers had missed out on benefits, leading them to struggle financially and risk their own health; and calls on all professionals who come into contact with carers to encourage them to find out about their rights and to recommend that they contact Carers UK.","date":"2009-12-03","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39916","proposer":"10063","edm":"356","session":"2009-10","title":"Sutton Carers Centre","text":"That this House recognises the important work Sutton Carers Centre does in supporting local carers and their families; commends the work it is doing for Carers Rights Day on 4 December 2009 to help educate local carers on their pension entitlements and benefit entitlements; and notes that Carers Rights Day is run by Carers UK and is a national campaign, now in its tenth year, that seeks to increase the take-up of benefits and raise awareness of carers' rights and this year is highlighting the support that carers may be able to get in order to protect their pensions.","date":"2009-12-03","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39733","proposer":"10222","edm":"193","session":"2009-10","title":"Services For Severely Disabled Children And Adults And Their Carers","text":"That this House wholeheartedly commends and supports the work of Michael and Henrietta Spink and the Henry Spink Foundation with regard to improving the services, and access to services, for severely disabled children, adults and their carers; has deep and profound sympathy for Henrietta and Michael Spink's personal plight as parents of two severely disabled children; sees them and the millions of other carers in the UK as quietly heroic; further supports Henrietta and Michael Spink's call, which is supported and being advocated by the Law Commission, for the creation of an independent Social Services Tribunal, which would follow the tribunal model in other sectors; further supports their call for the creation of an Ombudsman for Disability as is found in other European Union countries; further supports their call to reform local authority regulations so that local authority care assessments and support packages for children and adults become easily portable from one authority to another; further supports their campaign to encourage public and private leisure and entertainment facilities to admit the carers for severely disabled children and adults without additional charge; and calls on all relevant Government Ministers to bring forward proposals for the necessary changes in the law and regulations to enact these sensible, pragmatic, cost neutral reforms, that would genuinely improve the lives of thousands of carers for severely disabled children and adults across the UK, as soon as possible.","date":"2009-11-24","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39748","proposer":"11324","edm":"208","session":"2009-10","title":"Welsh Trust For Prevention Of Abuse","text":"That this House, noting the innumerable lives scarred by physical, sexual, psychological and emotional abuse, welcomes the Welsh Trust for Prevention of Abuse's project Elders and Betters, a film targeting the abuse of the elderly both in their own homes and care homes in Wales, highlighting and identifying such abuse, teaching the elderly about their right to speak out without fear in the knowledge that they will be listened to and helped; and further notes that the project, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and match funded by UK Steel Enterprises, is to be made in a care home in Wales with residents, relatives and carers taking part, forming a trilogy with the Trust's acclaimed bilingual videos It's My Life and Bully Off, which targeted child abuse and bullying.","date":"2009-11-24","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39488","proposer":"10177","edm":"2227","session":"2008-09","title":"Social Workers: Taking Back Our Profession Campaign","text":"That this House welcomes the Rally for Social Work organised by the British Association of Social Workers on 12 November 2009; supports the Social Workers: Taking back our profession campaign; and calls on the Government and all Opposition parties to support a college for social work led by the profession.","date":"2009-11-04","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39502","proposer":"10415","edm":"2241","session":"2008-09","title":"Launch By Sir Bobby Charlton Of Blackpool Fc's It's A Goal Initiative","text":"That this House congratulates Blackpool Football Club and NHS Blackpool on the launch by Sir Bobby Charlton at the Bloomfield Road ground of their It's a Goal initiative, a programme using the appeal of football and the facilities of the club, to encourage young men with mental health issues to get support and help in that informal and social setting; applauds the work of Sir Bobby Charlton as an ambassador for the initiative and his reunion at the launch with his friend and 1966 World Cup team-mate Jimmy Armfield, whose role as a champion in Blackpool for this and so many other community initiatives in the town is being underlined by naming the club's new stand the Jimmy Armfield stand; notes that Blackpool NHS's innovative basing of its staff in offices at the ground tangibly expresses how Blackpool Football Club is at the heart of the community; and further congratulates Karl Oyston and his family, Terry Lamb and Derek Spence, team manager Ian Holloway and all the players for their consistent support for this and other community initiatives in Blackpool.","date":"2009-11-04","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39461","proposer":"11672","edm":"2201","session":"2008-09","title":"Caring For Carers Campaign","text":"That this House supports the Daily Mirror in its Caring for Carers campaign; recognises the hugely important role that Britain's six million carers play in providing care for the elderly or ill friends and relatives; notes that many carers are unable to find full-time work because of their responsibilities to those for whom they care; and regrets that, despite saving the NHS approximately \u00a387 billion pounds a year, many carers struggle financially due to low incomes and often cannot afford basic costs of living.","date":"2009-11-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39177","proposer":"11707","edm":"1952","session":"2008-09","title":"Carers (No. 2)","text":"That this House expresses concern for the current lack of rights under law for non-next-of-kin carers who care for the sick or elderly and represent a large section of the healthcare support system; believes that carers should have the ability to participate in all decision-making for incapacitated partners; notes with regret that many of the elderly or infirm are separated from next-of-kin; and calls upon the Government to address this issue and bring forward proposals for legislation to effect protection for both the sick and their carers.","date":"2009-07-20","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39143","proposer":"11489","edm":"1918","session":"2008-09","title":"Ceredigion Carers Charter","text":"That this House acknowledges the achievements of the Ceredigion Carers Charter, now in its tenth year, in ensuring that the rights and needs of carers are respected; welcomes the progress that has been made in incorporating the rights outlined within the Charter within the work carried out by statutory agencies and voluntary groups in Ceredigion; recognises the importance of the role played by carers in all communities; and encourages the continuing work of the Ceredigion Carers Alliance in pursuing the goals mapped out by the Charter.","date":"2009-07-16","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39144","proposer":"11489","edm":"1919","session":"2008-09","title":"Carers Film In Ceredigion","text":"That this House congratulates Chris Carbin, Richard Jackson, Cathrin Howells, Chris McMullen, Vasco de Sousa and Helen Park, MA students from the Department of Film and Media at the University of Wales, Lampeter, for their work on a film showing the experiences of carers in Ceredigion; acknowledges the warm reception given to the film by carers in Ceredigion when it was shown as part of Carers Week; notes the outstanding level of research and background work undertaken to produce the film; further notes the importance of the film in showing the difficulties faced by carers in Ceredigion and in particular the need for respite care; hopes the film will have a lasting impact on the future of caring in Ceredigion; and wishes the students well in their future work.","date":"2009-07-16","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39126","proposer":"11245","edm":"1904","session":"2008-09","title":"Action In Elder Abuse Report","text":"That this House notes with concern the information from Action in Elder Abuse that a report on the review of the No Secrets adult protection guidance is planned to be published without the involvement or approval of the relevant Programme Board; and calls on the Government to postpone the publication until the document has received such approval.","date":"2009-07-15","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"39127","proposer":"11245","edm":"1905","session":"2008-09","title":"Adult Protection Framework Legislation","text":"That this House supports the call of Action on Elder Abuse, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Association of Chief Police Officers, all police forces in England, the former regulators (the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Healthcare Commission) and the current Care Quality Commission, the Law Society, the Local Government Association, the Alzheimer's Society, Counsel and Care, Mencap, the Down's Syndrome Association, Voice UK, Scope, the National Autistic Society, Sense and Age Concern\/Help the Aged for the establishment of adult protection framework legislation; notes that this is different from the intervention legislation that provides powers to intervene in the lives of adults; and calls on the Government to establish an immediate timescale for the introduction of such framework legislation.","date":"2009-07-15","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"38959","proposer":"10356","edm":"1760","session":"2008-09","title":"Social Care For Deafblind Children And Adults","text":"That this House welcomes the Department of Health's re-issuing of its guidance, Social care for deafblind children and adults; recognises that the guidance will have a significant impact on the 193,133 deafblind people in England; supports the calls from Sense, the UK's leading deafblind charity, that English local authorities implement the guidance without delay; acknowledges that deafblind people, their families and carers have a right to receive the appropriate level of assessment regardless of where they live and that they deserve a fair deal from their local councils; and recognises that less than half of the deafblind people identified by local authorities have received a specialist assessment and that the new guidance will reiterate that local authorities have a statutory duty to carry out proper assessments.","date":"2009-06-29","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"38861","proposer":"11245","edm":"1674","session":"2008-09","title":"Social Care","text":"That this House recognises the important role of social care in assisting disabled children, adults and older people to live decent and, where possible, independent lives; notes with concern that many disabled people whose level of need is described as lower or moderate still have social care needs, yet do not receive social care support from their local council and must pay for their own social care or live without appropriate care; and therefore calls on the Government to make more money available for local authorities to fund the social care provision in their area and widen access to those with moderate or lower needs.","date":"2009-06-16","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"38689","proposer":"10670","edm":"1519","session":"2008-09","title":"Support For Carers (No.2)","text":"That this House recognises the vital role of carers in the lives of those they care for all year round; acknowledges the huge amount of time, effort and devotion involved; welcomes Carers Week 2009 as an opportunity to highlight the contribution of carers; thanks carers for the sacrifices they make in order to improve the lives of others; and recognises that helping carers is one of the best ways to help those they are caring for.","date":"2009-05-18","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"38510","proposer":"10388","edm":"1355","session":"2008-09","title":"Carers Week","text":"That this House expresses its gratitude to and respect for the six million people in the UK who provide unpaid help, care and support to a relative or friend who has an illness or disability; notes that the huge contribution that carers make is often unrecognised by society, communities and sometimes within carers' own families and that as a consequence of this lack of recognition carers go without the support they need; acknowledges that most will provide care at some point in their lives and need to have access to information and services and to be listened to; is concerned that professionals may not always understand the role of a carer, nor offer them appropriate support, which risks damaging carers' own health; further notes that Carers Week, a partnership of 10 national charities, takes place this year from 8 to 14 June, with the theme Carers: the UK's Secret Service; and believes that carers need to have a higher profile across all services and be prioritised alongside other groups at risk of social exclusion at a local and national level.","date":"2009-04-27","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"38126","proposer":"11245","edm":"1028","session":"2008-09","title":"Care Of Elderly Disabled People","text":"That this House congratulates Counsel and Care, Carers UK and Help the Aged on their work to get the right deal for carers; further congratulates informal carers, many of whom are on call, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks of the year; believes that the current economic crisis and low interest rates may deter people from saving to fund their future social care; notes that many carers, such as students and carers aged over 65, are ineligible for support and that almost two million disabled people over 65 years receive no state-funded care and rely on informal care and that this figure is set to grow to 2.6 million by 2022; is concerned that three quarters of local authorities only provide care to people whose needs are critical or substantial; and calls on the Government to review carer and benefits policy to ensure that vulnerable people get the care they need.","date":"2009-03-10","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37979","proposer":"10057","edm":"900","session":"2008-09","title":"More Than My Illness And Care For Children With Cancer","text":"That this House notes that children with cancer say that it is important for them to be able to go home during their treatment; expresses concern that a lack of community children's nurses and social workers means that nearly half of parents say they do not get the support they need for their child to be able to go home safely; welcomes the release of CLIC Sargent's report More Than My Illness: Delivering quality care for children with cancer, published in February 2009 to outline the case for better, equitably available community-based care and support; highlights the report's recommendation that every child and young person with cancer should be allocated a key worker better to co-ordinate, plan and support every aspect of their support; welcomes the child health strategy Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures, which acknowledges the need for more and better community-based care and support and for more community children's nurses; and encourages service providers across the UK to ensure a more co-ordinated and holistic approach to delivering social, emotional, financial, educational and clinical support for sick children and their families.","date":"2009-02-26","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37951","proposer":"10222","edm":"874","session":"2008-09","title":"Services For Severely Disabled Children And Adults And Their Carers","text":"That this House wholeheartedly commends and supports the work of Michael and Henrietta Spink and the Henry Spink Foundation with regard to improving the services, and access to services, for severely disabled children, adults and their carers; has deep and profound sympathy for Henrietta and Michael Spink's personal plight as parents of two severely disabled children; sees them and the millions of other carers in the UK as quietly heroic; further supports Henrietta and Michael Spink's call, which is supported and being advocated by the Law Commission, for the creation of an independent Social Services Tribunal, which would follow the tribunal model in other sectors; further supports their call for the creation of an Ombudsman for Disability as is found in other European Union countries; further supports their call to reform local authority regulations so that local authority care assessments and support packages for children and adults become easily portable from one authority to another; further supports their campaign to encourage public and private leisure and entertainment facilities to admit the carers for severely disabled children and adults without additional charge; and calls upon all relevant Government Ministers to bring forward the necessary changes in the law and regulations to enact these sensible, pragmatic, cost neutral reforms, that would genuinely improve the lives of thousands of carers for severely disabled children and adults across the UK, as soon as possible.","date":"2009-02-24","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37745","proposer":"11420","edm":"692","session":"2008-09","title":"Community Care And Social Work","text":"That this House supports Community Care magazine in its campaign for support for social work; recognises that recent inaccurate media attacks on social work have damaged morale in the profession; welcomes the support in the profession for greater transparency and a more explanatory approach to practice; calls on the Government to acknowledge that social work is about people and not paperwork and technology; further recognises that many social workers do an important and effective job in difficult circumstances; and believes that this must not be forgotten.","date":"2009-02-04","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37689","proposer":"10080","edm":"639","session":"2008-09","title":"Safeguarding Adults Alliance","text":"That this House welcomes the establishment of the Safeguarding Adults Alliance to campaign to put adult protection in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on a statutory footing; notes that over 700 organisations and individuals have come together in the Alliance; further notes that the Alliance includes representatives from Mencap, Action on Elder Abuse, Alzheimer's Society, the United Kingdom Home Care Association, Action for Advocacy, Irwin Mitchell solicitors, the School of Social and Health Care at Bournemouth University, Age Concern North Staffordshire and the Beth Johnson Foundation; agrees with the Alliance that guidance issued under section 7 of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 does not carry the same status as legislation; and therefore calls on the Government to introduce legislation that provides a statutory basis for adult protection.","date":"2009-01-29","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37690","proposer":"10080","edm":"640","session":"2008-09","title":"Statutory Basis For Adult Protection","text":"That this House notes with concern the findings of a University College London study into the prevalence of abuse by family carers of people with dementia that as many as half of carers reporting some abusive behaviour; further notes the finding of the UK Study of Abuse and Neglect of Older People 2007 that as many as 342,000 people aged over 66 years are victims of abuse in the community, often committed by family members; welcomes the Government's review of its current safeguarding vulnerable people guidance, No Secrets; is concerned that the review concentrates on abuse by paid carers; believes that guidance issued under section 7 of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 does not carry the same status as legislation; calls on the Government to introduce legislation that provides a statutory basis for the construction and work of adult protection committees (APCs); and imposes a duty on agencies to collaborate, share information, actively participate at a senior level in APCs and work together to establish a right to access the adult at risk without hindrance or coercion and provide powers to protect the welfare of a person found to be the victim of abuse.","date":"2009-01-29","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37375","proposer":"10487","edm":"325A1","session":"2008-09","title":"Minimum Wage Rates And Support Workers","text":"at end add `and recalls the opposition of the Liberal Democrats to the national minimum wage.'.","date":"2008-12-17","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37316","proposer":"11324","edm":"307","session":"2008-09","title":"Welsh Trust For Prevention Of Abuse","text":"That this House, noting the innumerable lives scarred by physical, sexual, psychological and emotional abuse, welcomes the Welsh Trust for Prevention of Abuse's project Elders and Betters, a film targeting the abuse of the elderly both in their own homes and care homes in Wales, highlighting and identifying such abuse, teaching the elderly their right to speak out without fear in the knowledge that they will be listened to and helped; and further notes that the project, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and match funded by UK Steel Enterprises, is to be made in a care home in Wales with residents, relatives and carers taking part, forming a trilogy with the Trust's acclaimed bilingual videos It's My Life and Bully Off, which targeted child abuse and bullying.","date":"2008-12-16","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37334","proposer":"11707","edm":"325","session":"2008-09","title":"Minimum Wage Rates And Support Workers","text":"That this House recognises the valuable work of support workers who provide overnight support to vulnerable adults; notes with concern that employers are able to pay rates below the minimum wage to support staff who sleepover but remain on call throughout the night; further recognises that it is often impossible for staff to spend any time asleep while on shift; and therefore urges the Government to bring forward proposals to put an end to the legal practice of paying support workers below the minimum wage for their sleep rate and to ensure that they are paid the minimum wage for sleepover hours.","date":"2008-12-16","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37288","proposer":"10383","edm":"287","session":"2008-09","title":"Southern Cross","text":"That this House notes with concern the continuing reports of the poor standards of care in the residential homes managed by Southern Cross and of an increasing number of local authorities suspending the placement of elderly people into the care of Southern Cross establishments; and urges the Government to bring forward a programme of action to address this situation.","date":"2008-12-15","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37214","proposer":"10142","edm":"220","session":"2008-09","title":"Complaints About Healthcare And Social Care Services","text":"That this House welcomes the establishment of the Care Quality Commission in April 2009; and requests that the Commission must enforce the principle that healthcare and social care providers are obliged to act upon comments and complaints about their services, must ensure complaints procedures are open, efficient, timely and accessible with independent support for complainants throughout all stages of the complaint, must ensure that areas of concern arising from complaints are fully acted upon and the procedures amended or introduced as a result of complaints are implemented, and in the event of failure by a care provider to meet these obligations, sanctions must be imposed by the Commission on that provider.","date":"2008-12-09","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"37103","proposer":"10900","edm":"111","session":"2008-09","title":"Carers Rights Day","text":"That this House welcomes the Carers UK lobby of parliament on 4 December 2008 and National Carers Rights Day on 5 December 2008; recognises the commitment and sacrifices of six million unpaid carers; draws attention to the new report Carers in Crisis which shows that carers are struggling financially in the present economic climate with 65 per cent. living in fuel poverty, 52 per cent. cutting back on food and 54 per cent. in debt; notes that Carer's Allowance is still only \u00c2\u00a350.55 per week and that the Work and Pensions Select Committee has called for an urgent overhaul of carers' benefits; and calls on the Government to publish a plan and timetable for ensuring that its 2018 vision that no carer falls into financial hardship because of their caring role, as promised in the National Carers Strategy, becomes a reality.","date":"2008-12-04","status":"o"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"36660","proposer":"10428","edm":"2292","session":"2007-08","title":"Dementia Sufferers","text":"That this House supports the Alzheimer's Society's campaign to end the current system of charging for dementia patients' care, which penalises sufferers whose needs are classified as social rather than healthcare-related; recognises that people with dementia are amongst the hardest hit by charging systems because of their greater needs of support from care services, which deliver specifics such as help with eating, washing and toileting; and calls upon the Government to ensure that the essential needs of dementia sufferers are fully recognised in any future care and support mechanism catering for their needs.","date":"2008-10-20","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"36463","proposer":"10045","edm":"2116","session":"2007-08","title":"Aids And Adaptations In Sheffield","text":"That this House welcomes the \u00c2\u00a32.4 million additional funding made available by the NHS to Sheffield City Council; recognises the importance of providing elderly people and people with disabilities with aids and adaptations to enable them to stay in their own homes; is therefore concerned at the wait of 18 months or longer which many people in Sheffield are experiencing before necessary adaptations are carried out; and condemns Sheffield City Council's refusal to spend the \u00c2\u00a32.4 million of NHS money immediately to ensure that elderly and disabled people with recognised needs get the services they deserve.","date":"2008-07-21","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"36084","proposer":"11480","edm":"1783","session":"2007-08","title":"Saga Respite For Carers Trust","text":"That this House notes the last census in 2001 put the total figure of carers at 5.2 million in England, 480,000 in Scotland and 306,000 in Wales, numbers which are likely to be increasing as the population ages; further notes that one million carers provide more than 50 hours of care a week; that research by Carers UK estimates the value to the UK of this support at \u00c2\u00a382 billion a year, each carer thus saving the taxpayer over \u00c2\u00a315,000 annually; further acknowledges that the Saga\/Populus Panel 2008 survey shows first, that two-thirds of these carers receive no benefits or financial support for providing care and only 12 per cent. claim carer's allowance and second, that 46 per cent. of carers have not taken a holiday away from their caring responsibilities in the last year, while 24 per cent. have never taken such a holiday (this figure rising to 31 per cent. for longer term carers); believes that this relentless work inevitably takes a toll on the carer's health; and therefore welcomes the launch on 10th June of the Saga Respite for Carers Trust which seeks first, to highlight this issue and in particular to raise the profile of the need for respite breaks and second, to fund free respite breaks for people over 50 caring for a family member.","date":"2008-06-12","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"36066","proposer":"11324","edm":"1766","session":"2007-08","title":"Crosfield House, Royal British Legion Home, Rhayader","text":"That this House notes with concern the Royal British Legion's consultation on the future of Crosfield House in Rhayader; further notes that Crosfield House cares for 60 residents in a nursing home, residential and elderly mentally infirm context; is concerned that the consultation document is partial and biased towards a closure; is further concerned that the consultation period is too limited to allow all possible interested parties to put forward fully costed proposals which would allow continued provision of this service; and calls upon the Royal British Legion to extend the consultation period and to engage fully in a positive manner with Powys County Council to explore all avenues which would guarantee the future of this highly regarded and most valued facility for ex-servicemen and other Powys residents.","date":"2008-06-11","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"36036","proposer":"11707","edm":"1750","session":"2007-08","title":"Minimum Wage Rates And Support Workers","text":"That this House recognises the valuable work of support workers who provide overnight support to vulnerable adults; notes with concern that employers are able to pay rates below the minimum wage to support staff who sleep over but remain on call throughout the night; recognises that it is often impossible for staff to spend any time asleep while on shift; and therefore urges the Government to bring forward proposals to put an end to the legal practice of paying support workers below the minimum wage for their sleep rate, and to ensure that they are paid the minimum wage for sleepover hours.","date":"2008-06-10","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"36007","proposer":"10197","edm":"1721","session":"2007-08","title":"Christian Churches And Public Services","text":"That this House welcomes the publication of Moral, But No Compass: Church, Government and the Future of Welfare, by Francis Davis, Elizabeth Paulhus et al of the Von Hugel Institute, Cambridge University, the results of research undertaken with the blessing of the Archbishop's Council of the Church of England and with the support of the House of Bishops; notes that it records an absence of an adequate evidence base on the part of the Government and departments of state when it comes to understanding the civic contribution of the Christian churches in the UK; notes an under-estimation of the total number of faith-based charities on the part of the Charity Commission; acknowledges the pioneering contribution made by Christian churches to social innovations in services and initiatives on housing, alcohol dependency, poverty alleviation, education, criminal justice, community participation and health and well-being as well as rural and urban social cohesion and economic development; notes that the research draws on interviews with Ministers and shadow ministers, senior civil servants and voluntary sector leaders as well as several Members of both Houses; congratulates the Right Reverend Stephen Lowe, National Bishop for Urban Life, for initiating this work; calls for fresh and high level discussions within the Civil Service and with, and between Ministers on measures to help the UK harness this under-recognised faith-based contribution to the life of the UK; and calls on British embassies and consulates-general to share the report with other EU and Commonwealth countries as an example of good British practice.","date":"2008-06-09","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35982","proposer":"10043","edm":"1698","session":"2007-08","title":"Charges For Care Services","text":"That this House notes the Charging into Poverty report published by the Coalition on Charging; is concerned that charges for using care services can deny people access to essential support to remain independent; believes that disability-related expenditure must be assessed fully before charges are imposed on disabled and older people; and urges further research into the impact of charges to be undertaken as part of broader care reform plans in England.","date":"2008-06-04","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35815","proposer":"10210","edm":"1545","session":"2007-08","title":"Carers","text":"That this House celebrates the valuable role performed by six million carers in the UK, in the majority of cases without any financial recognition from the state; recognises that many carers need to work to make ends meet and, therefore, work for a living in addition to providing more than 35 hours per week of care; further recognises that paid work helps carers overcome feelings of isolation that can sometimes be caused by their caring role; congratulates the Government on increasing the earnings threshold on carer's allowance to prevent increases in the national minimum wage from disqualifying working carers to this valuable benefit; welcomes the Government's full and fundamental review of the National Carers Strategy and calls for sufficient resources to be allocated to deliver significant gains for carers; further congratulates the Government on establishing the new Standing Commission on Carers; urges the Government to enable carers to combine flexible and fulfilling employment with their caring role, and to give employers the flexibility that they need from their staff, by extending carer's allowance to low paid working carers earning more than the current threshold of \u00c2\u00a395 per week; and expresses support for Carers Day on Wednesday 11th June, organised by the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers.","date":"2008-05-12","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35746","proposer":"10431","edm":"1480","session":"2007-08","title":"Hope 2008","text":"That this House welcomes HOPE2008 and its vision of encouraging and resourcing churches across the UK to engage in community service throughout the year; recognises the valuable work that churches do in their local communities, including voluntary work, befriending and the provision of services - particularly in the most deprived areas - and encourages them to sign up to HOPE2008; is heartened by the support shown to HOPE2008 by politicians of all parties, church leaders, police chiefs and other prominent public figures; and encourages churches to carry the spirit of HOPE2008 beyond the end of the year itself.","date":"2008-05-06","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35631","proposer":"10578","edm":"1384","session":"2007-08","title":"Effect Of The Abolition Of The 10 Pence Tax Rate On Carers","text":"That this House notes that carers' earnings cannot exceed \u00c2\u00a395 net per week in order to qualify for the carer's allowance benefit, that maximum individual earnings combined with the carer's allowance equates to only \u00c2\u00a37,568 per annum and, as a result, working carers are in the group affected by the abolition of the 10 per cent. tax rate; further notes that most carers care for adults and are thus not entitled to child tax credits, nor do they qualify for working tax credits because they cannot work the requisite hours; believes that carers make an invaluable contribution to society; and urges the Government to take the opportunity when publishing its forthcoming National Strategy for Carers to help those carers made worse off as a result of last year's budget.","date":"2008-04-22","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35613","proposer":"10032","edm":"1369","session":"2007-08","title":"Carers Week 2008","text":"That this House expresses its admiration for the six million people in the UK who provide unpaid help and support to a relative or friend, who because of frailty, illness or disability, would not otherwise be able to manage; notes that as a consequence of caring disproportionate numbers of people experience ill health, poverty and discrimination; is concerned that large numbers of carers are unknown to statutory agencies and therefore their health needs are often overlooked; further notes that Carers Week, a partnership of 10 national charities, takes place in 2008 from 9th to 15th June, with the theme `Carers can't afford to be ill'; believes that carers need to be viewed as key partners in community care and need health and social care provision that is accessible and flexible; and further notes that in the next two decades the UK will need substantially more carers.","date":"2008-04-21","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35563","proposer":"10900","edm":"1324","session":"2007-08","title":"Carers And Government Decision On 2011 Census","text":"That this House welcomes the cross-government resolution to provide funding for a fourth page of questions for the 2011 census; notes that this means that the Office for National Statistics can now accommodate more of the user demands for information and continue with plans to include questions on carers in the 2011 census; recognises that the information on carers collected in the 2011 census will be very important in developing and implementing the Prime Minister's National Carers Strategy; congratulates the All Party Parliamentary Carers Group, Carers UK and all carers' organisations on this successful campaign; and acknowledges the positive responses to the concerns of carers by the Prime Minister, the Carers Minister, and many other Ministers, particularly the hon Member for Wallasey and the hon Member for Stirling.","date":"2008-04-02","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35546","proposer":"10586","edm":"1277A1","session":"2007-08","title":"End Of Life Care","text":"at end add `or in specialist local hospices.'.","date":"2008-04-01","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35512","proposer":"10385","edm":"1277","session":"2007-08","title":"End Of Life Care","text":"That this House notes that, according to a leading expert, for 90 per cent. of cancer patients pain can be managed equally well at home as in hospital; and calls on the Government to increase funding to enable end of life care to be provided at home.","date":"2008-03-31","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35513","proposer":"10080","edm":"1278","session":"2007-08","title":"Abuse And Inappropriate Prescribing","text":"That this House welcomes the announcement that the Department of Health and Comic Relief plan to commission a prevalence study into the level of abuse in care homes; believes this is essential, but not sufficient to tackle the problem; calls for tough action by commissioners and the Commission for Social Care Inspection to put the minority of abusive homes out of business, and for police action to put the worst offenders behind bars; considers that the law is being broken every day by doctors who prescribe, and care home staff who administer antipsychotic drugs to older people with dementia to keep them quiet and manageable as a form of chemical restraint; further believes that the evidence clearly shows that these drugs shorten lives, increase the risk of stroke and have other harmful side-effects; further calls on the Government to ban the use of antipsychotic drugs in all but the most severe cases of dementia and to ensure that their use is routinely reviewed; and urges the Government to ensure that the National Dementia Strategy delivers dignity for older people and ends the scandal of abusive prescribing.","date":"2008-03-31","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35476","proposer":"10043","edm":"1242","session":"2007-08","title":"Future Of Social Care Funding","text":"That this House notes that there is a growing body of evidence, from Leonard Cheshire Disability and the Commission for Social Care Inspection, that an increasing number of disabled people are not getting the social care support they need to maintain a decent quality of life because neither they, nor their local authority, can afford to pay for it; further notes that this loss of care is having a devastating impact on the lives of many disabled people and their families; and calls on the Government to use the forthcoming Green Paper on the future of social care funding as an opportunity to introduce a fair and equitable social care system which provides care for all who need it and ensures that those who cannot afford to pay for their care do not lose out and are able to live independent lives.","date":"2008-03-20","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35249","proposer":"10442","edm":"1051","session":"2007-08","title":"Right Care Right Deal","text":"That this House welcomes the Right Care Right Deal Campaign launched by Counsel and Care, Carers UK and Help the Aged; notes with concern that two thirds of people in the UK have no plans to put aside any money to fund their social care; further notes that the value of unpaid care for the over 65s together with the cost of privately-funded care is now \u00c2\u00a325,000 per older person per year; recalls that 1.9 million disabled people over 65 years receive no state funded care and rely on informal care; recognises that this figure is set to grow to 2.6 million by 2022; further notes with alarm that three in four local authorities only provide care to people whose needs are critical or substantial; and therefore calls on the Government to provide a fair, simple and consistent deal for social care that is simple to understand and access, reaches more people and supports carers and families.","date":"2008-02-26","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"35125","proposer":"10900","edm":"944","session":"2007-08","title":"Carers And The 2011 Census","text":"That this House recognises the recent increased priority given to supporting the UK's six million carers and the forthcoming Prime Minister's National Carers Strategy which will be published in the spring; notes the widespread use of data on carers gathered as a result of the 2001 census, in particular its use in research by Carers UK showing the negative impact that caring has on carers' ability to undertake paid work; notes that only the census can provide data on small groups such as carers from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and is the only reliable source of data on young carers; notes the difficulty that government, local authorities and health bodies will have in implementing the strategy without accurate data on the numbers, nature and location of carers; and therefore calls on the Government to ensure that the questions on carers are included in 2011 census.","date":"2008-02-18","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34911","proposer":"10647","edm":"749","session":"2007-08","title":"East Cheshire Hospice Christmas Tree Collection","text":"That this House congratulates the 150 volunteers, including Hugh Morgan, Sophia Morgan, Caroline Wilson, Dorian Belt, Andrew Robertson and organiser Richard Raymond, for the East Cheshire Hospice 2008 Christmas Tree Collection carried out on the weekend of 12th and 13th January 2008; notes that this valuable and worthwhile environmental initiative raised well in excess of \u00c2\u00a330,000 this year for the East Cheshire Hospice; further notes that more than \u00c2\u00a3100,000 has been raised since the Christmas tree collection service was first suggested and established in 1999 by the Chapman family of Prestbury; expresses its thanks to Macclesfield Borough Council, its staff and volunteers for their continuing co-operation and assistance with the scheme; further expresses its particular thanks to two individual Macclesfield Borough Council employees who gave their overtime payments to the fund; regrets that the East Cheshire Hospice cannot claim Gift Aid on the monies collected by the annual scheme; and calls on the Government to amend the Gift Aid rules to permit payments and donations in respect of such collection services to be eligible for Gift Aid.","date":"2008-01-22","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34745","proposer":"11791","edm":"594","session":"2007-08","title":"Dementia Care In Care Homes","text":"That this House welcomes the publication of the Alzheimer's Society report Home from Home which highlights large variations in the quality of care experienced by people with dementia in care homes; believes that good quality care improves quality of life for individuals living in care homes; notes that 420,000 people live in care homes in the UK and two thirds of care home residents have dementia; further notes that the primary function of care homes is now caring for people with dementia, many of whom will have complex needs; further notes that Government policy in recent years has focused on supporting people in their own homes; further believes that it is important that Government policy also considers the needs of the care home population; further notes that caring for residents with dementia is a highly skilled task; is concerned that only a minority of care home staff have adequate dementia training; believes the formation of the Commission for Quality Care should be used as an opportunity to ensure the new regulation and inspection systems focus on outcomes that matter to people with dementia, including access to outside space and activities; and urges the Government to ensure the National Dementia Strategy addresses the needs of the care home population.","date":"2007-12-17","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34722","proposer":"10428","edm":"577","session":"2007-08","title":"Human Rights In Privately Run Care Homes","text":"That this House is concerned about the recent judgement of the House of Lords regarding the human rights of residents of privately-run care homes in the UK; believes that whilst it was never the intention of either the British Government nor European legislation that any care home resident should suffer in this way, the fact is that they have; and calls upon the Government immediately to bring forward legislative proposals to correct this serious and unfair anomaly forthwith.","date":"2007-12-13","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34677","proposer":"10295","edm":"536","session":"2007-08","title":"Prison Officers","text":"That this House notes the important role played by prison officers across the UK; recognises that in addition to custodial duties prison officers perform a number of duties including providing appropriate care and support for prisoners at risk of self harm, promoting anti-bullying and suicide prevention policies, taking an active part in rehabilitation programmes for prisoners, and assessing and advising prisoners, using their own experiences and integrity; believes that prison officers are sometimes under-valued and not given the credit they deserve for performing essential duties; and calls on the Government to ensure that more support is given to prison officers who face difficult and challenging circumstances and often face assaults and threats of physical violence.","date":"2007-12-11","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34682","proposer":"10075","edm":"541","session":"2007-08","title":"Homelessness (No. 2)","text":"That this House notes that next year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Government's commitment to reduce by two-thirds the number of homeless people forced to sleep rough and the launch of the Rough Sleepers Unit; congratulates those involved on the progress made so far; welcomes the extra investment in hostels and support services; notes Shelter's new report Reaching Out, produced in partnership with Broadway, and based on consultation with single homeless people; is concerned that many of the problems faced by street homeless people have not gone away; supports Shelter's recommendations for expanding support services, improving access to hostel spaces, and increasing move-on accommodation; and calls on the Government to take forward these recommendations so that by Christmas 2008 more people can rebuild their lives and break the cycle of homelessness.","date":"2007-12-11","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34620","proposer":"10900","edm":"487","session":"2007-08","title":"YOUNG CARERS AND CARERS' RIGHTS DAY 2007","text":"That this House notes the cross-party welcome given to members of the Young Carers' Forum at the All-Party Parliament Carers' Group; congratulates the Forum on its work on behalf of young carers, in particular its involvement in the consultation events for the New Deal for Carers; and, as part of this year's Carers' Rights Day, endorses their call for care services for the whole family, the training of professionals who deal with young carers and ensuring that young carers have a chance of a normal childhood.","date":"2007-12-05","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34624","proposer":"10118","edm":"491","session":"2007-08","title":"CARERS' RIGHTS DAY","text":"That this House welcomes Carers' Rights Day on 7th December, recognises the contribution of millions of carers to the support of vulnerable, disabled and frail people throughout the United Kingdom; acknowledges the support provided by the Government through the carer's allowance and the recent increases in the allowance to \u00c2\u00a346.80 and the earnings limit to \u00c2\u00a395; and calls on the Government to mark Carers' Rights Day by making further improvements in the allowance system by applying a taper to reductions in the allowance when the earnings limit is reached and by including pensioners and those on incapacity benefit in the carer's allowance system.","date":"2007-12-05","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34606","proposer":"11588","edm":"473","session":"2007-08","title":"CARERS' RIGHTS DAY 2007","text":"That this House acknowledges the contribution of the six million carers in the United Kingdom who provide unpaid help and support to a frail, ill or disabled relative, friend or partner; welcomes Carers' Rights Day, which is being held on 7th December 2007, and its focus on ensuring that carers are aware of, and apply for, the benefits and other support to which they are entitled; believes that it is essential that carers are identified and given information about their rights to benefits and an assessment of their needs; recognises that information is key to giving carers choices and control over their lives and the opportunity to manage their caring responsibilities while maintaining paid employment; welcomes initiatives to identify hidden carers and congratulates the 1,185 local groups holding events around the country, the largest number ever; and believes that all local authorities, health bodies, voluntary sector organisations, employers and hon. Members have a role to play in identifying and supporting carers.","date":"2007-12-04","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34585","proposer":"11427","edm":"452","session":"2007-08","title":"Commission For Social Care Inspection","text":"That this House expresses concern about the effects of deregulation of care inspection by the current Commission for Social Care Inspection; notes that the Health and Social Care Bill will create a new integrated regulator, the Care Quality Commission; further notes that the effects of deregulation include less frequent inspections, reliance on paper exercises and self-evaluation by care providers, a hands-off approach to complaints, and the loss of 360 inspection and support jobs; believes that these changes hinder inspectors' capacity to talk to service users and detect problems at an early stage and leave vulnerable care home residents at risk and with no system of redress; calls for an immediate moratorium on the job cuts proposed; and urges the Government to review the current care inspection system to determine whether reducing the burden of regulation is appropriate to the needs of vulnerable people in health and social care.","date":"2007-12-03","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34559","proposer":"11489","edm":"438","session":"2007-08","title":"Carers For The Elderly In Private Nursing Homes","text":"That this House notes with concern that carers and nursing auxiliaries in nursing homes outside NHS trusts and local government employment are paid considerably less than NHS and local government employees, often little more than the national minimum wage; regrets that Government guidelines to local authorities on charging regulations mean that carers looking after older people, often with severe dementia, are dependent on market forces to establish their worth; and calls upon the Government to work with the Welsh Assembly Government and the Scottish Executive to ensure that new guidance is issued to local authorities which recognises the value of carers working outside the NHS and local government and ensures that they receive realistic wages and have improved terms and conditions.","date":"2007-11-28","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34483","proposer":"10455","edm":"363","session":"2007-08","title":"Recognition Of Mental Health Carers","text":"That this House supports the mental health charity Rethink in recognising the unique difficulties faced by the carers of those with a severe mental illness, particularly around information sharing and involvement in care planning; notes with concern that the carers of people with a severe mental illness are more likely to report a lack of understanding of their caring role; believes that mental health carers have the right to share information with, and be listened to by, health professionals; views the 2007 review of the Prime Minister's Carer's Strategy as an opportunity to recognise the vital contribution made by mental health carers; and calls upon the Government to ensure that those needs are adequately reflected.","date":"2007-11-22","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34468","proposer":"10043","edm":"348","session":"2007-08","title":"Independent Living And The Our Lives, Our Choices Campaign","text":"That this House welcomes the Our Lives, Our Choices, coalition campaign for a social care system based on entitlements to independent living for disabled people, older people and their families; notes with concern rising eligibility thresholds for accessing social care which are causing increasing levels of hardship, ill-health and exclusion; further notes research by the Office for Disability Issues highlighting the waste and inefficiency in the care system and the long-term economic benefits of independent living-type support; believes the reforms contained in the Disabled Persons (Independent Living) Bill are a means of delivering real choice and control for people needing support, safeguarding the future well-being of children and families, promoting dignity for older people, and better supporting gender equality; and calls on the Government to take urgent action to stem the crisis and commit to bringing forward independent living legislation within this Parliament.","date":"2007-11-21","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34415","proposer":"10292","edm":"304","session":"2007-08","title":"Anchor Retirement Housing And Holly Dene In Kirkby","text":"That this House deplores Anchor Retirement Housing's recent decision to close the Holly Dene residential scheme for elderly people in Kirkby; notes that this decision was taken without any consultation with residents or Knowsley Council; further notes that Anchor has delayed implementation of this decision for six months; expresses hope that the assurance that residents will be relocated to accommodation of their choice will be honoured by Anchor Retirement Housing; and calls on Anchor Retirement Housing to build a new scheme to replace Holly Dene.","date":"2007-11-19","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34389","proposer":"10586","edm":"191A1","session":"2007-08","title":"Palliative Care","text":"at end add `especially for provision within patients' homes and local hospices'.","date":"2007-11-14","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34293","proposer":"10001","edm":"191","session":"2007-08","title":"Palliative Care","text":"That this House expresses concern at the level of provision of palliative care in the UK; notes that although surveys suggest most people would rather die at home, only 18 per cent. are able to do so; further notes that research into palliative care in the UK has found gaps in service provision and access to services; recognises the work of charities including the Red Cross, Age Concern and Marie Curie in providing help and comfort at the end of life; and calls on the Government to increase funding for palliative care.","date":"2007-11-12","status":"c"},{"topic":"Community care","id":"34203","proposer":"10013","edm":"113","session":"2007-08","title":"Immigration Status Of Senior Care Workers","text":"That this House notes that many senior care workers based in the UK who came from outside the EEA are caught between new departmental criteria on pay scales and employers who will not meet them; notes that many of the individuals affected have been resident in the United Kingdom for as long as six years; and calls on the Government to grant an amnesty of three months from the date of expiry on in-country extension applications for senior care workers where employers will not or cannot meet the pay criteria, to enable them to find alternative work within the same sector.","date":"2007-11-07","status":"c"}]