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Service users to gain more say in national care decisions
The deputy social services minister for Wales has revealed plans to set up a “citizen panel” and produce a white paper on reforms to regulation of the social care workforce.
Service users and carers in Wales will have a greater say in how the national care system is run in future, the deputy social services minister has revealed.
Gwenda Thomas told the National Social Services Conference last week that she intends to set up a “citizen panel” to boost service user engagement.
She also announced that a framework will be developed to monitor whether people are receiving better services and a new standards, performance and improvement team will be introduced to encourage sharing of good practice.
Donation helps Emmbrook pupils become carers
Pupils thanked a Rotary Club that helped send them on a trip to become carers for a week.
By Jon Nurse
June 29, 2012
Past Rotary chairman Mike Beswetherick, pupils Barney Smith, 17, Hannah Jennings, 18, Leo Whyte, 17, Jodie Mitchell, 17, Chris Rowland, 16, Georgina Hubbarde, 17, Rotary chairman Miles Halliwell, and teacher Sam Martin.
Pupils thanked a Rotary Club that helped send them on a trip to become carers for a week.
Six sixth formers from The Emmbrook School were sent to an outdoor centre in Wales where they acted as full-time carers for pupils from Addington School, which caters for children with learning needs.
They joined pupils from Charters School in Ascot and Maiden Erlegh School in Reading at the centre in Tirabad, Wales, which is owned by the three schools.
Elderly care: Millions of pounds refunded in mistaken charges
The Welsh government has ordered a review of free care assessments.
Multi-million pound mistakes in charging sick, elderly people for nursing care they should have had free have been revealed by BBC Wales.
Health boards have already refunded £3.6m to patients who were originally told they were not entitled to NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding.
Millions of pounds in further refunds are anticipated as a backlog of almost 2,000 cases are determined.
