Carers And Their Rights

Download or read book Carers and their rights written by Luke Clements and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carers and their Rightsis Carers UK’s definitive guide to carers’rights to support from health and social services, as they care unpaid for ill, frail or disabled friends or family members. Written by solicitor and community care law expert Professor Luke Clements, this fifth edition includes updates based on a number of statutory and case law developments since the last edition, implementation of the Carers (Equal Opportunities) Act 2004 and the Work and Families Act 2006, the impact of the Equality Act 2010 and coincides with the first tangible impacts of the Carers Strategies (Wales) Measure 2010. As draft Bills have been published in both England and Wales to codify and update social care law this guide gives a comprehensive picture of existing social care statute which will be built on by the new legislation.