Health and Social Care Committee

Consultation on terms of reference for inquiry into residential care for older people

RC8 ToR – Welsh Reablement Alliance

I am writing in my capacity as Chair of the Welsh Reablement Alliance, an umbrella group comprised of nine charities, service providers and professional organisations working on issues around reablement in Wales. We note the current consultation on the terms of reference for the Committee’s inquiry into residential care for older people, and we would like to suggest that the issue of reablement is explicitly accommodated within the inquiry’s terms of reference. We believe this would sit very comfortably with the stated aims of examining “the capacity of the residential care sector to meet the demand for services from older people in terms of staffing resources and the number of places and facilities” and also the interest in “new and emerging models of care provision”.

The Alliance would be only too happy to provide any information necessary to help the Committee explore the issue of reablement as part of its inquiry.

If you require any further details, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours faithfully,

Ed Bridges

Public Affairs Manager for Wales