Care Practice and Provision
Activity 1 (A01)
Care practice and provision is complex and ever changing. Health and social services have been traditionally provided by three sectors, but there is technically an forth sector, informal care is also essential to the provision of care, so there are four sectors providing care.
In this portfolio I am going to be looking at how care practice and provision can affect people, what it means to them and what other help and support may be out there that they are entitled to which they don’t know about. I am going to be looking at the demographic influences of Buckinghamshire. I will be looking at the age of an area and how many people have disabilities in that area.
The reason I have chosen Buckinghamshire is because it the county in which I live so I will hopefully find it easy to collect information that I will need. I also chose Buckinghamshire as Stoke Mandeville is in it. Stoke Mandeville Hospital has a specialist spinal unit within it and caters extremely well for people who are disabled. Often if people have spinal injuries or other injuries that could lead to them becoming disabled then they will be transferred to Stoke Mandeville as this is where they will receive the best possible treatment.
These services all link in to help make Care Practice and Provision run smoothly and effectively:
Public Services this sector includes the NHS which provides services is hospitals and in the local community. Anyone UK citizen is entitled to free health care. The NHS is funded through the government through taxation and national insurance paid by working people in the UK over the age of 18. These organisations run to provide a service and not to make any kind of profit.
Private Services
Private health and social organisations run to make a profit and provide a range of services including private hospitals, private care homes and private nurseries. These are widely used but it is much rarer for people to use these services unless they have a high source of disposable income as they are very pricey.
Voluntary Services
These are also no-profitable organisations and run only to offer a service. As they are no-profitable they rely a lot on donations and charities. Sometimes if a person was looked after well by a voluntary service then they leave their belongings and money to the service in their will when they pass away.
Informal Services
These services are provided outside of the other three sectors and are normally unpaid.
All four of these sectors work together in local areas to offer the best possible service they can. Although they don’t all have the same targets and objectives they are still able to work together to give local people a better health and social care system.

The influences of local demography on service planning
 The proportions of disabled people in the area
 The age profile of the local population
 Unemployment levels
 The number of single parent families
 The number of older people in the population
Communities are assessed using information in each of the following domains
 Income
 Employment
 Health and disability
 Education, skills and training
 Barriers to housing services
 Crime
 Living Environment
The characteristics of the most deprived wards in England include
 Income deprivation
 Unemployment
 Children living in poverty
 A high proportion of black and minority ethnic groups
 Poor accessibility to housing and services
 A higher proportion of lone parents
 A higher proportion of people with no car
 High crime rates
 Poor health including long-term illness and disability
 High teenage pregnancy rates
 Low birth weights of babies
 Unemployment or unskilled work leading to low incomes in many households
 High smoking rates among deprived groups including pregnant women
 Increasing obesity
 Many groups are socially excluded

I am picking two demographic influences one of which is disability and the other is the age of a population. I chose disability as the area very local to me has lots of new facilities to cater for people with all kinds of disabilities. I picked the age of a population however i am going to do this in a different location as I think the location I chose caters for the elderly better than my local area. Disability- Buckinghamshire (Stoke Mandeville)
Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire was the birth place of the Paralympics; its famous leisure centre ‘The Guttmann’ has been specially adapted for all types of disabilities to be able to take part in almost any sports they like with professional help and guidance. Having this leisure centre can improve the lives of people with disabilities.
As well as the local people that use the leisure centre people from all over the country also come to Stoke Mandeville especially to use the facilities. During the 2012 Paralympic games Stoke Mandeville was use as a training venue. With a hotel on site also adapted for people with disabilities it gives the people a place to stay whilst training with easy transport links close by into London.
There are lots of transport links all over Stoke Mandeville and Aylesbury Vale that cater well for people with disabilities, this enables people with disabilities slightly more freedom as they don’t have to worry about getting around without having to have someone with them. There are around 6500 people in Buckinghamshire alone that suffer from disabilities that mean they are unable to work

Age of population – Buckinghamshire (Wendover)
Wendover is a small country town in Buckinghamshire. It is very quiet and peaceful and there are a very low number of crimes. Ideal for older people to live, within Wendover’s small population there are a lot of older people as it is a nice retirement home. Wendover is at the foot of some of the Chiltern’s finest areas of outstanding natural beauty

Bibliography http://buds.org.uk/site/content/national-benefits Heinemann A2 level Health and Social Care