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Unfortunately, social care service users have not got the ear of government

September 22, 2011   Carers, disability

There’s a deafening silence of service users in the social care funding consultation

Could it be that their views don’t chime with the government’s preferred way forward, says Peter Beresford

 

Unfortunately, social care service users have not got the ear of government, says Peter Beresford.
The government has scheduled a new white paper on social care for April next year. It will pull together key recent recommendations for the radical reform of social care funding, legislation and delivery systems. At a King’s Fund health thinktank conference on Tuesday, A New Future For Social Care?, Emily Thornberry MP, Labour’s shadow care spokesperson, made a plea to return to traditional parliamentary procedures. “In the past, we’d have had a green paper, then a public consultation, then a white paper,” she said. “Now we’re moving straight to a white paper.”
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Carers’ move fears for paralysed Linda

May 4, 2011   Carers

Carers’ move fears for paralysed Linda


Linda Cottingham and her husband, Barry.

 

Published on Wednesday 4 May 2011 08:00

 

A PARALYSED Sheffield woman has been left confused and upset by changes to council care support supposed to make her life easier.

Linda Cottingham has received help from the council’s in-house Care4You team for 25 years.

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