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Care for the elderly: warning over £135m cash that could be squandered on admin
Money intended to improve care for elderly and disabled people could end up being spent on bureaucracy, an alliance of councils and charities warns
Care for elderly and disabled people will be jeopardised by a £135 million gap in funding for a long-awaited overhaul of the system, an alliance of council leaders, care chiefs and charities is warning.
Details in the fine print of the Coalition’s Care Bill, which is going through its final Parliamentary stages, suggest that cash transferred from the NHS to the care system will have to be used to make the reforms happen, they say.
It means that money set aside to improve social care would be diverted into bureaucracy, the councils and charities fear.
The UN International Women’s Day – Saturday 8 March 2014
“Women’s economic empowerment is a mirage if we ignore unpaid work done at home”
GENEVA (8 March 2014) – On International Women’s Day, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda, calls on States to ensure that unpaid care is better valued, supported and shared – by men and by States:
“Women’s economic empowerment is a mirage if we don’t also take into account the unpaid work they are doing in the home. In most countries, women – especially those living in poverty – work longer hours than men when unpaid work is taken into account, yet they receive lower earnings and less recognition.
Former carer ‘stressed’ after being told to leave Victory Housing Trust bungalow in Blakeney
A former carer is concerned he will become homeless
Owen Arundel, who has been told by Victory Housing Trust that he can no longer live at his late grandmother’s bungalow at Blakeney. Photo: Karen Bethell
Sophie Wyllie sophie.wyllie@archant.co.uk
Friday, March 7, 2014 9:27 AM
A former carer is concerned he will become homeless following the death of his grandmother whose home he shared.
Owen Arundel, 23, from Hayward Close, Blakeney, was told by Victory Housing Trust to leave because he lived in the two-bedroom property with his relative a few weeks short of the 12- month period in the rules to qualify him to stay.
His grandmother, Janice Arundel, 68, who died in January 20 from cancer, was the tenancy holder and her grandson moved in on February 25 last year to care for her.
