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East of England March and Rally against disability cuts

September 23, 2011   Carers, disability, Norfolk, ukcuts

The Hardest Hit Rally, Norwich
East of England
March and Rally,

Norwich, 22 October 2011

In May, 1000s of disabled people marched in London, to speak up about planned cuts to benefits and services.
The Government are deciding on more cuts this Autumn.

We are marching in Norwich, to tell the Coalition Government that cutting services will make life very difficult for disabled people and people with long term conditions. Disabled people and their families and carers will be the Hardest Hit by cuts to benefits and services.

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Unfortunately, social care service users have not got the ear of government

September 22, 2011   Carers, disability

There’s a deafening silence of service users in the social care funding consultation

Could it be that their views don’t chime with the government’s preferred way forward, says Peter Beresford

 

Unfortunately, social care service users have not got the ear of government, says Peter Beresford.
The government has scheduled a new white paper on social care for April next year. It will pull together key recent recommendations for the radical reform of social care funding, legislation and delivery systems. At a King’s Fund health thinktank conference on Tuesday, A New Future For Social Care?, Emily Thornberry MP, Labour’s shadow care spokesperson, made a plea to return to traditional parliamentary procedures. “In the past, we’d have had a green paper, then a public consultation, then a white paper,” she said. “Now we’re moving straight to a white paper.”
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Secret Millionaire helps carers

September 22, 2011   Carers, disability, family

Tuam’s secret millionaire a hit with viewers

Galway Advertiser,
John Concannon

By Martina Nee

The first episode of RTÉ’s The Secret Millionaire, which featured an emotional and generous donation by Galway man John Concannon, was the most watched programme on television on Monday night.

The Tuam-based entrepreneur and managing director of JFC Manufacturing is given a new identity in the programme and spends a number of days and nights in different areas of Dublin, sometimes posing as a community worker and in other instances as a handyman, on the look-out for people and charities to help. In the programme we see the cameras following Mr Concannon around his plastics manufacturing business in Tuam, with his family in nearby Kilconly, and then on to Dublin where most of the show is set with audiences seeing him working undercover.

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