Category Archives: Carers
Care crisis facing the elderly: MPs
MPs warned that funding cuts were becoming ‘more urgent day by day’ and said that the Government needed to overhaul the social care system and increase funding
Millions of elderly people are facing a “care crisis” as official figures show two thirds of councils have cut funding for residential homes.
A survey by the Commons Health Select Committee found that councils are cutting social care budgets by an average of 6% while raising charges for services such as home help.
MPs warned that funding cuts were becoming “more urgent day by day” and said that the Government needed to overhaul the social care system and increase funding.
The wide-ranging report also warned that the government’s reforms of the NHS were proving a “distraction” and putting attempts to save £20billion by 2014 in jeopardy.
MEMORIAL hockey tournament helps Carers
Trevor memorial to help carers charity
3:40pm Monday 23rd January 2012 in
A MEMORIAL hockey tournament in honour of a popular pub landlord who died unexpectedly aged only 48 raised £200 for a local charity.
Trevor Marston, former landlord of the Brewers Arms in West Malvern, had seemed in good health before he collapsed at the pub in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2010.
The government has been defeated in the Lords
Government suffers Lords defeat over benefit cap plan
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Baroness Tonge and Margot James MP tell the BBC’s Norman Smith what they think of the outcome
The government has been defeated in the Lords in a vote on its plans for a £26,000-a-year household benefit cap.
Lib Dem, Labour and crossbench peers backed a bishop’s amendment by 252 to 237 that child benefit should not be included in the cap.
Critics argued that imposing the same cap on all families, regardless of size, would penalise children.
The government said it was “very disappointed” and the vote “clearly flies in the face of public opinion”.
Earlier the government defeated another amendment proposed by Labour to exempt people considered at risk of homelessness from the cap.
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