11:50am Monday 10th October 2011
A CARER has questioned why a health services meeting was held in private as Knutsford care centres face closure.
Charlotte Peters Rock, whose husband Cyril suffers from dementia, has slammed Cheshire East Council for denying her access to the September meeting of the health and wellbeing scrutiny committee.
South Wales council hopes to shave £11m off its social care bill through a programme of better contracting and use of I
Newport city council has launched a three year programme to reform its adult and children‘s social services and save nearly £11m.
Stewart Greenwell, director of social services at Newport, told Guardian Social Care Network that the programme is as much about modernising and improving services as saving money.
The Welfare Reform Bill had its second reading – a debate on the general principles of the Bill – in the House of Lords on Tuesday 13 September. More than 50 Members of the Lords took part, including Members with first-hand experience of the benefits system and disability. A petition on housing benefits was presented before the debate.
