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Reading: Cuts to council care support agreed
Cuts to council care support agreed
By Linda Fort
April 07, 2011
Social workers in Reading will begin the task of reassessing elderly and disabled people receiving care following a decision by councillors on Tuesday last week.
People with moderate needs currently receiving care will be reassessed and if their needs have not increased to critical or substantial levels they will lose their support from the council.
The full council also agreed a new charging policy for day centres which will see £4.90 a day charges to some users dropped altogether while others could see that charge go up to £43.
‘No one seems to care about the carers’
‘No one seems to care about the carers’
Care: Full-time carers, Freda and Albert Redfearn with their daughter Lorraine at their home in Bamber Bridge
A FAMILY of a severely disabled woman has blasted cuts to public spending and claim they will be left unable to cope.
Cuts would be “a bitter pill to swallow”
Carers fear adult social care ‘will not be fit for purpose’ after £9.2m cuts
CARERS have expressed major concerns over cost-cutting which could see support slashed for 3,363 of the county’s disabled adults.
Lincolnshire County Council currently assesses 10,902 individuals using a four-tier system, with help provided for those with “critical”, “substantial” and “moderate” needs.
But as part of efforts to save more than £9.2 million from the £140 million adult social care budget, the authority wants to withdraw assistance for those in the “moderate” band.
