Cuts in services hit carers hard

June 10, 2011   Carers, disability, ukcuts

A carer sharing what things are like when you become a carer. No one knows unless it happens to them.

Cuts in services hit carers hard
Published on Friday 10 June 2011 08:47

I am an official carer for my wife, who is registered as severely disabled. For this I get no Carer’s Allowance whatsoever. I am 76 and under duress, doing the best I can like thousands of others unpaid carers countrywide.

I asked Social Services for a stand-in shower to be installed as I have to help my wife into and out of the bath.

The SS gave me another number to ring. This number gave another and so on.

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Autistic man ‘let down’ by council

June 9, 2011   autism, Carers

Autistic man ‘let down’ by council

PA

Thursday, 9 June 2011

A social services boss has apologised after a High Court judge ruled that a local authority unlawfully detained a 21-year-old autistic man by keeping him in a care unit for nearly a year.
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Care ‘loophole’ hits family of disabled Accrington toddler

June 9, 2011   Carers, cerebral palsy, family

Care ‘loophole’ hits family of disabled Accrington toddler

11:36am Thursday 9th June 2011

ONE STEP AT A TIME Finley with parents Kelly and Ivan ‘PENALISED’ Finley with parents Kelly and Ivan

HYNDBURN’S MP is backing the family of a disabled toddler ‘penalised’ because they have to care for him full time.

Two-year-old Finley Rosbotham’s amazing progress has recently seen him take his first steps despite having cerebral palsy and being born paralysed down one side and with part of his brain missing.

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