Northerner
Admin (Retired)
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- Type 1
The year 2014 was another cataclysmic one for social care. More cuts, more high-profile reports of abuse and even fewer people ensured the support they need.
But don’t just take my word for it. Former coalition care minister Paul Burstow described the homecare system as “close to crisis”. The Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of adult social care, Andrea Sutcliffe, spoke of “too much awful care” in residential homes. The current care minister, Norman Lamb, said the wages of some care workers were “completely unacceptable and a disgrace”.
With a rhetoric-ridden but weak and ambiguous Care Act due to come into force in spring 2015, there is little sign of anything much changing for the better. Yet millions of disabled and older people and family carers know only too well that we can’t go on with such insecure and inadequate services and support – and these have to face even more draconian funding cuts. In this general election year, we’ll all have our own lists of prerequisites for improvement.
http://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2015/jan/05/revive-social-care-peter-beresford
But don’t just take my word for it. Former coalition care minister Paul Burstow described the homecare system as “close to crisis”. The Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of adult social care, Andrea Sutcliffe, spoke of “too much awful care” in residential homes. The current care minister, Norman Lamb, said the wages of some care workers were “completely unacceptable and a disgrace”.
With a rhetoric-ridden but weak and ambiguous Care Act due to come into force in spring 2015, there is little sign of anything much changing for the better. Yet millions of disabled and older people and family carers know only too well that we can’t go on with such insecure and inadequate services and support – and these have to face even more draconian funding cuts. In this general election year, we’ll all have our own lists of prerequisites for improvement.
http://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2015/jan/05/revive-social-care-peter-beresford