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Government should scrap Green Paper CARE providers are calling on the government to scrap the longdelayed Green Paper on care and take immediate action instead. The Independent Care Group says it has taken too long to bring the paper forward and the 1.4m currently living without the care they need cannot wait and need action now. Their call comes after it was revealed that dementia sufferers have spent almost £15bn paying for their own care since plans for a Green Paper were announced two years ago. The Group’s chair, Mike Padgham, said: “The moment has passed and it is simply too late now to introduce a Green Paper. “Everyone is agreed that we need to take urgent action to help those who need care and those 1.4m people cannot wait for the endless debates, consultations and discussion that would doubtless follow the introduction of a Green Paper. “We need to take action now and have the discussions and make changes as we go along, not wait any longer.” The Independent Care Group says the past 17 years has seen 13 documents – four independent reviews/commissions, four
consultations and five white and green papers on care. The House of Lord Economic Affairs Committee recently called on the Government to spend £8bn to restore social care to acceptable standards and then introduce a system within five years to allow people to get their social care for free. “The cross-party Economic Affairs Committee has spelt it out very clearly for the Government, concluding that social care is severely underfunded and riddled with unfairness,” Mike added. “It also agreed that current arrangements for people with dementia are unfair, with people paying hundreds of thousands for their care while someone with cancer gets their care free. “Others, like Damian Green, also concluded that the system was unfair and needed a sharing of the costs amongst the population and an end to the ‘dementia lottery’. “It is clear that we need an immediate injection of money into social care and a sustainable method of funding care, from National Insurance or income tax, for the future, so that everyone shares the burden of paying for our care. We don’t need another Green Paper to tell us the obvious.”
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TIME is running out to submit your Caring UK Awards’ entries, with nominations for this year closing on August 30. The Caring UK Awards, in partnership with Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank, recognise excellence and achievement throughout the care industry and recognise team efforts across the UK. They have been created to highlight and pay tribute to the care home teams who make an outstanding contribution to caring for the elderly. Taking place on Friday November 15 at The Athena in Leicester, there are more than 20 trophies up for grabs at this year’s awards including Care Home of the Year, Management Team of the Year and Activities Team of the Year. Other categories include Best Innovation in Care, Best Outdoor Environment and Care Employer of the Year. New categories for this year include Care Employee of the Year and the Community Involvement Award. Derek Breingan, head of health and social care at Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank, said: “There is still time to nominate an entry for this year’s Awards and I would encourage everyone to take the opportunity to highlight an individual or service that deserves recognition.” n Enter at www.caringukawards. co.uk or see pages 16 to 18.
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