Tag Archives: ukcuts

MS sufferer left ‘disgusted’ with care firm’s help

April 7, 2014   Carers, Multiple Sclerosis, ukcuts

She was left without help
Lorraine Mansell

Published on the 07 April
2014
07:28

MULTIPLE sclerosis sufferer Lorraine Mansell says a care company is ‘disgusting’ after she was left without help.

The 56-year-old needs two carers to help her four times a day as her condition means she cannot walk or use her left arm.

The carers help her out of bed in the morning and make her breakfast, help at lunchtime, teatime, and get her to bed at 9pm,

But Mrs Mansell, of Harvard Close, Lee-on-the-Solent, said that company Apex Care – a private company contracted by Hampshire County Council – has let her down.

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Why is it too difficult to treat disabled people as human beings?

April 7, 2014   Carers, disability, ukcuts

A year on, people living with disability, illness and poverty are paying the price for the coalition’s multiple welfare reforms

 
Disability protest outside The Department of Work and Pensions, London. Photograph: Graham Turner.

This week marks one year since Black April: the month that saw multiple, simultaneous benefit cuts piled in on the people living with disability, illness and poverty. This is not an anniversary for cards and chocolates. More an eviction notice in a brown envelope or a voucher for the local food bank.

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Cuts have left 250,000 older people without state care, report says

March 27, 2014   Carers, health, Older care, ukcuts

Report warns there is no way of assessing the true impact that social care cuts are having on vulnerable older people

The number of vulnerable older people receiving “meals on wheels” services has dropped by over half.

, social policy editor

A quarter of a million older people have lost their state-funded help with carrying out everyday activities such as bathing, dressing and eating in the past four years as council budgets have been slashed and services rationed, according to a report released on Wednesday.

The NHS and government are now “flying blind” in planning services for vulnerable older people because there is no way of assessing the true impact that social care cuts are having on their lives, the report’s authors warn.

The report by the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation thinktanks says that four years of cuts to local authority funding have already forced councils to ration social care services tightly.

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