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Manchester cuts: Millions slashed from adults budget
Support for adults could be reduced by £8m over two years
Millions of pounds of council funding which helps some of Manchester’s most vulnerable people is set to be cut.
Councillors will consider savings, described as “difficult decisions”, which will affect services from help for battered wives to meals-on-wheels.
Nearly 60 voluntary groups will lose all or part of their grants as the council seeks to cut £2m from the sector.
Support for adults could be reduced by £8m over two years.
Carer argues that council meeting should include carers
Carer slams decision to hold meeting in private
11:50am Monday 10th October 2011
A CARER has questioned why a health services meeting was held in private as Knutsford care centres face closure.
Charlotte Peters Rock, whose husband Cyril suffers from dementia, has slammed Cheshire East Council for denying her access to the September meeting of the health and wellbeing scrutiny committee.
Welfare Reform Bill second reading Tuesday 4 October
Welfare Reform Bill second reading
The Welfare Reform Bill had its second reading – a debate on the general principles of the Bill – in the House of Lords on Tuesday 13 September. More than 50 Members of the Lords took part, including Members with first-hand experience of the benefits system and disability. A petition on housing benefits was presented before the debate.
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