No help for the aged: Home carers axed for our old and most vulnerable
Elderly people are suffering as £1billion is slashed from councils
For our most vulnerable pensioners, home care visits are the lifeline that allows them to live with dignity.
But the Sunday Mirror can today reveal they have become the latest service to fall victim to the Government’s funding axe.
A fresh wave of cuts has led to the price of having a carer visit a sick or elderly person soaring by 10 per cent.
Carers help the sick, frail and elderly get up in the morning, get washed, dressed and fed. They also lend a hand with household chores and shopping.
Car clinic gets young carers mobile ON THE ROAD
Car clinic gets young carers mobile
By TERRY KELLY
ON THE ROAD … youth carers project co-ordinator Karen Ahmed, left, with Dawn Swales of Just Car Clinic, and staff and children of the Macmillan Cancer Support.
Published on Saturday 26 May 2012 14:00
HELP is getting into gear for three children on South Tyneside who are caring for their seriously ill father.
The children, aged nine, 11 and 14, from Jarrow, are supporting their dad, who is battling against a brain tumour.
But the youngsters often find visiting their father, who is in St Clare’s Hospice, Jarrow, difficult and stressful.
But help is available for the children and others, thanks to the South Tyneside Young Carers Project.
Blind people are ‘living in fear of welfare reforms’
Welfare reform threatens to steal their independence and dignity, David Miliband was told
The South Shields MP was at a summit in his constituency listening to the concerns of those who say the benefits cuts have left them at crisis point.
