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Tory benefit changes leave child carers £3.5k a year poorer
Axing disability “premiums” could leave 25,000 people around £70 a week poorer, said the Children’s Society.
The Government claims carers will be compensated by other increases, but not all will qualify and there is no guarantee benefits will keep pace with spiralling prices.
Ministers want to turn the NHS in England into “the largest social enterprise sector in the world”
Could co-operatives be the future of care?
By Victoria King Political reporter, BBC News
Ministers want to turn the NHS in England into “the largest social enterprise sector in the world”. They envisage a network of small co-operatives and mutuals run by doctors and nurses not managers. But would that be a good thing? And is it even practical?
“‘Public sector’ and ‘public service’ are not interchangeable phrases,” says Geoff Walker, chief executive of Sandwell Community Caring Trust.
“I used to have to deliver the ‘public sector’ with all the management, admin and local politics that come with that. Now all I do is deliver a service – all I have to do now is keep 700 people happy.”
Mobility scooters would be fitted with GPS systems under the plans
Pensioners on mobility scooters ‘tracked by GPS’ under proposal to save care costs in Manchester
Excluisve by Amy Glendinning
August 24, 2011
Pensioners on mobility scooters could be tracked by satellite as part of radical plans to use technology to slash spending on social care.
The scooters would be fitted with GPS systems – with relatives able to log on to the internet to pinpoint their loved one if they became lost, confused or upset.
