You lie in your own mess. You are cold. You are hungry and confused. You can’t remember whether you have taken your pills. You feel ashamed. You feel angry. It is still five hours before someone will knock on the door, let herself in, and wash you. You hope for a few minutes’ talk but you know that it won’t happen. She only has a quarter of an hour for your appointment …
Category Archives: ukcuts
Who will speak for the old and disabled, trapped in their homes?
We hear a lot about how cuts affect women and the young – but the crisis in social care is perhaps the greatest of them all
The most vocally excluded of all in our society are the old and poor.
Vulnerable families and carers will be pushed past breaking point
The most vulnerable are already being hammered by benefit cuts
- Friday 18 November 2011
Vulnerable families will be pushed past breaking point if Chancellor George Osborne holds down the annual uprating of benefits, a charity warned today.
Unconfirmed reports in The Times today claimed that Mr Osborne is planning to slice £1 billion off the welfare bill by breaking a long-standing procedure under which benefits are upgraded each year in line with September’s inflation rate.
Sunderland charity chief’s ‘grave concern’ over care cost plans
The Government wants more people to manage their own personal budget and by 2013
Published on Tuesday 15 November 2011 10:40
CHARITY bosses have criticised proposals which could see pensioners paying hundreds of pounds more per week for social care.
It is feared up to 3,000 elderly Wearsiders could be hit by the changes being considered by Sunderland City Council.
The proposed shake-up to the contributions policy would remove a maximum cap of £108.70.
Instead, people would be individually assessed as to what they can afford to pay.
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