Category Archives: disability
Mum with disabled daughter campaigns for wheelchair ramp – and gets £40,000 ‘slalom’ eyesore
Clare Lally begged her local council for improved access for wheelchair-bound Katie, seven, after the council gave them a home at the top of three flights of stairs. What she got turned her relief to shock…
By Chris Parsons | Yahoo News – 21 hours ago
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Yahoo News./SWNS – Eyesore: The ramp has ten ‘slalom-style’ levels outside Katie’s house. (SWNS)
Clare Lally spent two years campaigning for wheelchair home access for her disabled daughter – only for the council to build this 10-level slalom ‘eyesore’ outside her house.
The mum-of-one begged her local council for improved access for wheelchair-bound Katie, seven, after the council gave them a home at the top of three flights of stairs.
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.
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