On Human Rights Day (10 December 2025), the Five Nations Care Forum – which comprises of care associations from Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland – wrote to the UK Government urging full and active participation in drafting a new UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons.
The letter, addressed to Rt Hon Chris Elmore MP, Minister for Human Right, highlights the urgent need to uphold the dignity, rights and equal citizenship of older people, and calls for the voices of older persons and social care providers to be central to the process.
Read the letter below.
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