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  1. Policy Position - Social Care Reform Funding Access (Sep 24).pdf

    Policy Position Paper Social Care Reform, Funding & Access (England) September 2024 Older people should be able to expect responsive, person-centred, high quality social care services to meet ... on universal and rapid care assessments that are fully integrated with other key services. Adult social care helps people who are older or living with disability or physical or mental illness to live independently

  2. FS49 The Social Fund Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision.pdf

    Page 1 of 18 Factsheet 49 Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision July 2025 About this factsheet The Social Fund is a scheme to help people with expenses that are difficult to meet ... organisations section. Age UK factsheet 49 July 2025 Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision Page 2 of 18 Contents 1 What is the Social Fund? 3 1.1 Winter Fuel Payments 3 1.1.1 The amount

  3. Distributional impact of differing proposals for introducing an Energy Social Tariff (June 2023).pdf

    Manager Research Note: Distributional impact of differing proposals for the introduction of a Social Tariff for energy use at home June 2023 Age UK 7th Floor One America Square ... periods. In our recent report, Keeping the lights on: The case for an energy social tariff, we argued that an energy social tariff represents a crucial element for ensuring that lower income and vulnerable

  4. Estimating the cost of a Social Tariff for energy use at home, October 2022.pdf

    Page 1 of 7 Research Note: Estimating the cost of a Social Tariff for energy use at home October 2022 Author: Vinal K Karania, Research Manager Page 2 of 7 Summary ... vulnerable households in the UK to afford to heat and power their homes, we propose that an ‘energy social tariff’ is introduced, set at half the price of the energy price cap, and targeted at households

  5. RB_Dec15_The_end_of_formal_social_care.pdf

    Franklin www.ilcuk.org.uk The end of formal adult social care A provocation by the ILC-UK December 2015 I 2 I ILC-UK The end of formal adult social care About the Centre for Later Life funding This ... The end of formal adult social care Executive Summary Is this the end for formal adult social care? While many have welcomed the government’s acknowledgement that adult social care requires more funding

  6. CRS_Nov16_Managing_medicines_social_care_community.pdf

    Managing medicines for adults receiving social care in the community Consultation on draft NICE Guideline [GID-MANAGINGMEDICINESCOMMUNITYSOCIALCARE] Ref: 3916 Date: November 2016 All rights ... (NICE) is currently developing a guideline around the management of medicines for adults receiving social care in the community. Older people form a large and growing part of the demographic this guideline

  7. Age_UK_ response_ to_Social_housing_green_paper_November_2018.pdf

    A new deal for social housing (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) November 2018 ... associated with social housing - measures to increase the overall supply of social rented housing The consultation also represents a welcome reversal of Government proposals on social housing in a number

  8. Social Tariff letter to Chancellor and SOS BEIS.pdf

    this commitment and urge your department to consider introducing targeted support in the form of a social tariff for the energy market, and to ensure the consultation process for implementing such protections ... of your work to protect consumers post April 2024, a targeted support mechanism in the form of a social tariff for the energy market – a discounted, targeted tariff aimed at those in greatest need to ensure

  9. Age UK Social Care Reform and Funding policy position.pdf

    Policy Position Paper Social care reform and funding (England) May 2019 The social care system must be reformed to guarantee high-quality support for everyone who needs it and sufficiently ... current and future generations of older people to lead fulfilling lives. What is social care? Social care is broadly defined as help, care and support for people with a wide variety of needs

  10. Social tariff letter to Chancellor January 23.docx

    this commitment and urge your department to consider introducing targeted support in the form of a social tariff for the energy market, and to ensure the consultation process for implementing such protections ... of your work to protect consumers post April 2024, a targeted support mechanism in the form of a social tariff for the energy market – a discounted, targeted tariff aimed at those in greatest need to ensure

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