Category Archives: ukcuts

ESA benefit to be stopped as early as April 2012

September 21, 2011   benefits, Carers, Multiple Sclerosis, ukcuts

Government to impose time limit on Employment Support Allowance

Published date: 15 Sep 2011 at 2:39PM

 

ESA benefit to be stopped as early as April 2012

The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) plans to introduce a time limit of one year for all but the most seriously ill people claiming ESA. The decision is likely to affected thousands of people with MS.

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Disabled and carers plan to fight closure of Centre for Independent Living

September 16, 2011   Carers, disability, ukcuts
 SOS Westminster
 

Published: 16 September 2011
by JOSH LOEB

CARERS have been forced to set up a do-it-yourself-style day centre for some of Westminster’s most vulnerable people.
 
The Centre for Independent Living in Paddington, which offers activities for deaf and wheelchair-bound residents, will close at the end of this month as part of a shake-up of social care.People with disabilities who have been fighting the closure now plan to club together to stage regular art and cookery classes at another venue nearby.

Di Yeo, chair of campaign group SOS Westminster, called the impending closure “a great tragedy”.

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Report calls for more failing care home protection

September 15, 2011   Carers, Older care, ukcuts

5 September 2011 Last updated at 02:00

Some people are  finding it difficult to purchase care.
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More needs to be done to protect people from failing care services in England, a report says.

The National Audit office warns greater safeguards are needed when a firm runs into financial trouble as happened recently with Southern Cross homes.

It says there are shortcomings in the government reforms to how services are funded.

The Department of Health says it is already considering whether to oversee the £23bn market more losely.

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