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Issue 279
Streeting Acts on Baroness Casey's Call for New National Safeguarding Board… And Urgent Review Confirmed
The government has moved with unusual speed to respond to the urgent recommendations of Dame Louise Casey, Chair of the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care, pledging a series of significant interventions across adult safeguarding, dementia care and motor neurone disease — with implications that will be felt directly by residential and nursing care providers across England. In a speech at the Nuffield Trust Summit Baroness Casey accused successive governments have 'abdicated responsibility to protect adults at risk of abuse' and set out how there is currently a reliance on “cobbled together” underfunded
services relying on low-paid care workers, a lack of ownership and accountability, and a deep divide between health and social care which leaves families to navigate alone. Baroness Casey wrote to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care asking the Government to take six immediate actions on dementia, motor neurone disease and adult safeguarding due to the urgency of the reform needed in these areas.
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