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Mean means-tested care
• THE Town Hall has claimed that it has already saved £1million in social services savings because fewer people have asked for home visits in recent months (Elderly residents ‘fobbed off’ as council racks up £1m saving, December 11). But it has failed to explain why fewer people asked for home visits.
Many homecare users are cancelling their services because they cannot afford to pay the increased cost. Consequently, the elderly and vulnerable are living at home without assistance.
Hence, I strongly urge Councillor Martin Davies (the council’s adult social care executive member ) to re-visit the policy of means-testing and increased homecare cost in this recession and to stop the idea of saving at the sufferings of our elderly and vulnerable.
SYED HOQUE
Labour spokesman, Adult Social Care
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