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Vulnerable clients face a "disturbing picture" of cuts in housing benefit and supported housing services.This is the scenario portrayed by the National Housing Federation, Homeless Link and housing charity Sitra in a joint submission to the Treasury's spending review, which will set public spending...
One hundred home care jobs are at risk in Bromley from cost-cutting council plans to end in-house care provision, a staff representative has warned.Glenn Kelly, a staff representative at the south-east London council, claimed the authority was implementing plans to transfer all ongoing home...
The care packages of 9,000 people in Stoke-on-Trent are being reviewed after a new charging policy was approved. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is looking again at its home and day care services to try to make them more efficient and better suited to patients' needs. The review will see if the...
Learning disability charity, Mencap, has today announced the launch of a new national telephone service - Mencap Direct. This is a new service which makes it easy for people with a learning disability, and those who support them, to find and buy the services they need from Mencap. The supporting...
Millions of elderly people are at risk of having money stolen because they feel forced to use chip and PIN cards to withdraw their state pension.More than two million pensioners use a Post Office card account to withdraw their pension, after pension books were controversially phased out seven...
Three day centres for people with mental health needs could close in Notts. The county council is expected to launch a consultation into shutting the centres in Beeston, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Worksop. The move is part of a shake-up of the way the authority delivers care to people with mental...
The funding of long-term care of the elderly is a socio-economic time bomb successive governments at Westminster and Holyrood have failed to defuse.We need urgent action to address the soaring cost of providing long-term care for an ageing population and ensure that current and future...
Shock new figures reveal the number of cases of suspected abuse against vulnerable adults has rocketed by more than 60 per cent in a year. In Hartlepool, the number of suspected abuse cases between March 2009 and March this year rose from 123 to 195, a rise of 63 per cent....
A £650,000 fund has been set up to help vulnerable adults in the north-east of England into employment or housing. The government and the North East Strategic Health Authority have funded the project, aimed at adults with learning disabilities. It includes an internship programme at a regional...
Neil Barker has no memories of the 35 days following a horrific motor bike crash which left him with brain injuries and needing his eye socket rebuilt. Carrying out everyday activities became a struggle. Even a basic task such as buying a tin of beans was a major challenge. His family feared he...
