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Lack of care workers forces disabled woman into care home
Disabled woman forced to leave home due to lack of care workers
A disabled woman has been forced to leave her home because of a lack of care workers.
Kathleen Robertson, 60, had been able to live in her flat in Ellon with the help of staff from care-at-home providers, Raeburn Healthcare four times a week.
But when Raeburn announced they did not have enough staff to continue their support, Aberdeenshire Council social workers also said they could not find any workers to help her either.
Mrs Robertson, who has multiple sclerosis and is paralysed from the neck down, has been living on her own in a specially-modified flat for three years, but now she has had no choice but to lose her independence and move to nearby Auchtercrag Care Home.
Carers of vulnerable children will be forced to take on the council without help
Carers and special guardians set to lose right to family court legal aid
12:11pm Monday 4th March 2013 in News By Omar Oakes, Chief Reporter
Carers of the most vulnerable children will be forced to take on the council by themselves in court.
From April, legal aid will not be available to people trying to go through the family courts, unless in very special circumstances.
Merton Council has come under fire for not providing support to special guardians, legally appointed to look after children if they have already lived with them for a significant amount of time.
In July 2012, a High Court judge ordered Merton to change its policy of underpaying special guardians after a former civil servant was being short-changed by £250 a month.
Sleepless nights for carers, disabled hit by new 'bedroom tax'
Sleepless nights for the families hit by the threat of new ‘bedroom tax’
Is it right to ‘tax’ people who are not using all of the bedrooms in their home all of the time? Caroline Mortimer reports.
About 80,000 people in Yorkshire look set to hit by a “bedroom tax” when the Government’s controversial Welfare Reform Act comes into force this April.
The under-occupancy charge will cut the amount of housing benefit available to households with one or more bedrooms classed as spare under the new rules.
Its supporters say it is unfair for the taxpayer to subside extra rooms when there is a shortage of housing across the country. But its critics insist it will have a devastating impact on vulnerable tenants and local economies.
Approximately two-thirds of people nationally who are hit by the cuts will either be disabled or caring for a disabled person. One of them, Cheryl Guillot, 48, from Holywell Green near Halifax, said she had been left “totally bewildered” by the situation.
