Evidence from Disability Can Do Organisation – RISC 01 / Tystiolaeth gan – RISC 01
We feel it will deliver the stated aims, we feel it is a strong idea and very necessary for vulnerable people in receipt of care. Legislation is needed because without it things get forgotten and overlooked.
Agencies do not have the adequate resources to allow for addition inspections. It is all about money and they will not be interested in putting extra measures in place especially if they cost money. We feel the local authority may be reluctant to make changes when they do not have the time and the resources to do so. It will be an increased workload that they don’t need at the moment and at a time when there are lots of discretionary cuts. Companies cannot cope with the influx of clients all the time let alone the extra work. Local authority should have more power to enforce sanctions if a care agency is not providing the relevant support and meeting the needs. We hope this bill will tackle this.
No we cannot see any. It is tricky for older people who are isolated with no family and care agencies seem to try and get away with more. There is always room for improvement.
We think the local authority should have more powers to sanction companies who are repeatedly failing to meet the needs. There should be more onus on the agencies to offer better pay and more training to try and retain staff. The training should be more regulated and monitored.
More onus on the local authority who are already struggling. Maybe it should be an independent agency?
We feel this is a good idea and that any quality ratings should be made available for public viewing. It depends what the fees are for?
It is a good thing to have more public involvement. People should be included more in inspections and in reviews of their care plans. People should have more of a say into what is happening in their lives and if they are not happy they should have the right to access an independent advocate.
We do not have any views on this.
For example, assessment of the financial and corporate sustainability of service providers and provision of a national market stability report.
We feel Care Council for Wales do not do a great deal at the moment so any extension to remit is a positive step. However we can not see how much difference changing the name will be apart from costing a lot of money.
We feel this is good, it is really important for all care providers to be registered and not just voluntary. We also applaud the introduction of prohibition orders because agencies should be brought to task if they are not fufilling the need.
We think it is an important for bodies to joint working as long as it actually works in practice rather than just a ‘tick box exercise’. There has to be a clear process of what joint working is and how to achieve it.
This is difficult to answer. We feel there should be more control from the top down. However it is all very well writing it in legislation but it has to be followed through in practice.
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