Health and Social Care Unit 11 Ao4

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UNIT 11 AO4 In this assignment I will be talking about the Government responses to the social issue and welfare needs of older people. In this assignment I will be showing – * How responses have come about and * How influences may have affected the nature of those responses to my issue or welfare need How government responses have come about for the social issue and welfare needs of older people In the government there are 3 political parties, labour, conservative and liberal democrat. Each political party have their own political ideology and this is the body of ideas and beliefs that define a political group and inform the decisions that they make and the types of legislation they will form. All main political parties will have their own political ideology. The current government is a coalition and this is a governing body formed by multiple parties who must compromise on principles. The current parties in the coalition in the UK right now are labour and conservative and these both have different beliefs but they have to work together to make sure everything is running smoothly and sometimes this means they will have to agree to disagree on certain things. There is a big difference between both parties as labour don’t really look beyond the short term effects in something and will do something because it seems right at the time without looking at what damage it will have in the future, however conservative do look at the long term and because of this they are not as ‘laid back’ as the labour party as they don’t do things as freely as labour. However because of this, the labour seem to be more in touch with the average person, whereas because the conservative are mainly made up of private mp’s they don’t really have an idea about the average working class person. As the conservative now have a say in the policies, a lot more people now have to become
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