Category Archives: Carers
45,000 elderly and disabled people in North-East and N Yorkshire have ‘lost’ council-funded care
MORE than 45,000 elderly and disabled people across the region have “lost” council-funded care in just three years, campaigners are warning.
9:40pm Wednesday 12th February 2014 in News By Robert Merrick, Parliamentary Correspondent
Fall in access to social care The huge decline – of almost one fifth across the North-East and Yorkshire – is the result of “chronic underfunding” of town halls, the Care and Support Alliance said.
Cash-starved authorities are being forced to “ration” care – even to people who need help to “to get up, get washed, and get dressed and get out of the house”
Now the Alliance is warning the Government’s flagship plans to reform the battered care system will fail unless councils are given “long term, sustainable funding”.
Richard Hawkes, its chairman, said: “Like most other parts of the country, the North-East and Yorkshire are experiencing a squeeze on social care.
“Chronic underfunding has left large numbers of older and disabled people, who need support to do the basics, like getting up or out of the house, cut out of the care system.”
£400,000 bedroom tax rebate in Liverpool
More than 700 people in Liverpool are to share in a £400,000 rebate because of a government gaffe over the bedroom tax.
The awards will largely be around the £560 mark, and should be given to tenants in the next couple of weeks.
The loophole in the coalition’s highly controversial “spare room subsidy” deduction meant that anyone who had been resident in the same house since 1996 and receiving housing benefit all that time should have been exempt from having to make up the difference in their rent.
The Liverpool news follows the recent discovery that up to 600 households in Wirral could be entitled to a rebate.
Integrated care toolkit will make joined-up services a reality
New resource will provide practical and user-friendly help to commissioners and providers
The Local Government Association (LGA) and the National Collaborative have developed a toolkit to answer some of the pressing, practical questions facing those trying to plan and deliver localised person-centred care.
The challenges of integration are well known. The joining up of services is common sense in principle, but its effective implementation is another matter. Commissioners and providers are struggling to understand exactly which models of integrated service delivery are relevant to their area, and which ones will help them achieve the care improvement and financial targets they are facing.
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