Dignity Guardians in UK

Action on Elder Abuse becomes a Dignity Guardian

Before his promotion the then Care Services Minister, Liam Byrne, established a new group of dignity guardians to help him toughen the regulation of social care. Action on Elder Abuse was identified as one of these new Guardians..

The announcement came as the Minister reached the mid way point of his series of regional listening events with older people and as AEA released the results of a government funded project to map abuse of vulnerable adults in England.

Announcing the new group of dignity guardians at an Action on Elder Abuse conference at the University of Warwick on Monday 13 March, Liam Byrne said: "If we are to achieve the ambition set out in our recent white paper to help people maintain their dignity by being active and independent, then we need to ensure our regulation and standards are of the highest quality.

That is why I am bringing together this new group of dignity guardians. Too often older people are not treated with the dignity they deserve. We need to tackle poor quality services, not tolerate them."
The dignity guardians group and listening events are the latest initiatives in a series of measures designed to drive up standards of care and tackle elder abuse. These include: the registration of care workers, a new vetting and barring scheme aimed at ensuring abusers can’t work with vulnerable adults and giving the Commission for Social Care Inspection new freedoms to increase spot checks on the worst care homes.

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SOURCE: elderAbusedotorg

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