SCIE Identifies Significant Disparities In Carer Participation
{mosimage} The opportunities for carers to influence the services that affect them can depend entirely on the cultures of their local authorities and primary care trusts. In a new position paper Working together: Carer participation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has identified that while ‘carer participation’ has been on many agendas for some time, there is a lack of definitions or any shared understanding of what it should actually mean. The paper – based on a UK wide practice survey and a review of available literature – found that many organisations don’t differentiate between participation and consultation, resulting in carers being consulted about decisions rather than involved in making them.
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