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Unison warns of care funding crisis
Day centre closures could lead to a crisis in elderly care, claims Unison
The Government has been warned of a “crisis” in care for the elderly because of widespread closures and cuts hitting day centres.
Unison said ministers should ensure that local councils are given the funding they need to keep day care centres running. Closing them was described as a “false economy” because they provide much-needed respite for carers, as well as monitoring and improving the physical and mental health of users.
Fury at welfare cuts
The group is calling on the Government to exempt families with disabled children from planned cuts
A MUM whose son has autism and epilepsy is backing a campaign urging the Government not to make further cuts to support for families with disabled children.
Annie Bannister, of Great Glen, says caring for her 12-year-old son Thomas is increasingly expensive and that Government cutbacks in recent years are putting families like theirs under mounting pressure.
MP reveals his battle against OCD as he campaigns against stigma of mental illness
I was visited by obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
PUBLISHED: 22:51, 16 June 2012 | UPDATED: 22:51, 16 June 2012
I am delighted to say that I have been a practising fruitcake for 31 years. It was in 1981 at St John’s Wood Tube station – I remember it vividly – that I was visited by obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Over the intervening years it has played a fairly significant part in my life. On occasions it is manageable and sometimes it becomes quite difficult. It takes one to some quite dark places.
I operate to the rule of four, so I have to do everything in evens. I have to wash my hands four times and I have to go in and out of a room four times.
My wife and children often say I resemble an extra from Riverdance as I bounce in and out of a room, switching lights off four times.
Woe betide me if I switch off a light five times because then I have to do it another three times. Counting becomes very important.
