Category Archives: Carers

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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Red tape is the biggest worry for carers

September 23, 2011   Carers, Scotland
 The care support system, and not the care giving, that is causing stress.

 
Published Date: 23 September 2011
 

THE biggest stress unpaid carers face is not the work and attention involved in their duties, but dealing with local authority systems, it has been warned.
A group of carers has told MSPs that filling out forms, securing financial help and requesting assistance is harder than actual caring.

Politicians in attendance at the presentation vowed to seek improvements.

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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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