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What is adult social care?
Adult social care
Adult social care refers to a system of support designed to maintain and promote the independence and well-being of disabled and older people, and informal carers.
While often associated with the provision of personal care and accommodation, it also includes support to help people perform parenting roles, participate in their communities and manage other day-to-day affairs.
Hosted chat with Chloe Smith MP 1pm 18th August in Chill4us Chatroom
We are delighted to let you know that Chloe Smith MP will be joining us in our chatroom on the forum.
at 1pm 18th August
You are invited to join us for this online LIVE chat with our online chat guest host Chloe Smith MP.
In this LIVE chat, Chloe is “happy to discuss any issue – local or national – and her experiences to date in Westminster”.
We hope you will be able to join us, for this second chat we have held with Chloe.
You can enter by pressing the chatroom button at the top of our forum, only registered members can take part.
Please feel free to join our forum before the day.
JOIN the CHAT on Thursday at 1pm 18th August 2011.
The online event is exclusively at www.chill4us.com
Mental health service users and personal health budgets
What Personal Health Budgets mean to mental health service users
By William Smith
It is hard to keep up with all the proposed changes to our NHS system. The piloting of personal budgets in the NHS began in 2009. This scheme begun under the old Labour government and is now supported by the coalition in their health white paper ‘Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS’.
A recently published report shows that mental health service users in England are sceptical that these ‘personal budgets’ will improve their care. Many do not know what personal budgets are or how they would fit into similar funding schemes within the social care system.
