Category Archives: Carers
Ministers to pledge free holiday to family carers as part of new plans to reform care system
White paper detailing changes to care system to be published later this month
- Care services minister says current arrangements aren’t working
- An estimated 1.25million people spend more than 50 hours a week caring for family member
PUBLISHED: 01:51, 9 June 2012 | UPDATED: 01:53, 9 June 2012
Carers looking after vulnerable relatives will be entitled to respite holidays paid for by the Government.
The ‘sandwich generation’, which juggles looking after elderly parents with supporting children, will be given greater help under the plans.
Ministers will require councils to arrange support for carers including short holidays away from the person they care for, assistance with transport and training in care techniques.
A White Paper detailing the reforms to the care system will be published later this month.
Free breaks offered to Wiltshire’s carers
GPs or nurses will be able to prescribe breaks worth up to £50
12:28pm Friday 8th June 2012 in News
A breaks scheme is being launched at GP surgeries across Wiltshire during Carers Week this year to give unpaid carers who are suffering ill health as a result of their role, or who have a long term health condition, the chance to have a free break.
GPs and practice nurses will be able to ‘prescribe’ a social, leisure or health break to those that they identify as a carer in order to give them an opportunity to take some time out from looking after a relative or friend who, due to illness, disability, age, eating disorder or substance misuse, is unable to manage without their help.
Care home residents who pay subsidising the rest, owners admit
At present anyone with assets worth more than £23,500 has no help from the state in funding their care even though some face costs of up to £100,000 a year
Middle class people in care homes are being charged up to £12,000 a year extra to subsidise the cost of those who receive free care, owners have admitted.
More than four out of five care home operators admit they have had to put up prices for those who pay for their own way because of councils cuts – with some suggesting that the difference in cost is now up to 50 per cent.
They say that it amounts to an extra “tax” on those deemed well enough off to pay for care – effectively meaning that they are being charged twice.
But care home operators said they would go out of business if they were not able to charge so-called self-funders higher fees.
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