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Commissioning risks to human rights

Posted by Neil Crowther on Wednesday, September 7, 2011, In : Human rights in open public services 
An important and worrying survey by the UK Home Care Association highlighting the risks to older people's human rights of ever-shorter home care visits confirms the interim findings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's formal inquiry into the human rights of older people receiving care at home.   

The survey found that home care clients were receiving shorter visits and losing access to services such as safety checks.  82% of 111 UK Councils and health and social care trusts had cut t...
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Protecting human rights in 'open public services'

Posted by Neil Crowther on Monday, August 1, 2011, In : Human rights in open public services 

"We will create a new presumption - backed up by new rights for public service users and a new system of independent ajudication - that public services should be open to a range of providers competing to offer better services"

David Cameron

There exist no intrinsic tensions between out-sourcing public services to private and voluntary sector providers and protecting and promoting human rights.  State-run services are not safe-havens.  In the area of disability rights personalisation and privati...
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