The support system so many rely on was struggling before the coronavirus crisis. Now it is truly broken
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A fifth of disabled people say they will not leave home until a coronavirus vaccine is found
‘In addition to the survey, Scope has written to prime minister Boris Johnson, calling for him to prioritise the needs of disabled people, 59 per cent of whom are worried about being forgotten by the government.’
The other 41% realise that they have never been remembered by this government and never will be.
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Coronavirus: Over 100 disability charities sign open letter to DWP demanding urgent benefit changes – Welfare Weekly
More than 100 disability organisations sign open letter demanding better protections for disabled people affected by coronavirus pandemic.
Remploy loses inspection contracts
Experts by Experience need to be used and listened to more effectively and hopefully more concentration on actual care delivery, rather than record keeping.
Remploy loses inspection contracts after years of concerns over performance – By John Pring
A discredited US company that earns hundreds of millions of pounds a year through benefit assessment and employment support contracts has lost the right to run large parts of a care inspection scheme, following repeated concerns about its performance.
Maximus, which has been running three of the four regional Experts by Experience (ExE) schemes since 2016, has lost out in a lengthy bidding process to a consortium headed by a UK charity.
The ExE scheme uses disabled people, family carers, and other people with experience of using services to provide expert input into Care Quality Commission (CQC) health and social care inspections across England.
Three of the ExE regional schemes are currently managed by Remploy, the disability employment business which was previously owned by the government but is now mostly owned by Maximus.
But Remploy/Maximus…
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Age UK statistics are alarming and shame the country | Care Industry News
New Age UK analysis finds that in the last 12 months, about 700,000 requests for formal care and support, equivalent to 51% of all applications, have been made by older people and yet have resulted in them not receiving formal care services. This is equivalent to 2,000 claims from older people being unsuccessful each day, or 80 every hour.[1]
In some of these cases, the older person was found by their council not to meet the eligibility criteria set for the social care system, and that was the end of it (23% of all requests for help); while in others the older person was found ineligible, but their council then referred them onto other services in the hope that they could assist, including their local Age UK (46% of all requests for help). [1]
Source: Age UK statistics are alarming and shame the country | Care Industry News
Britain’s welfare state: A return to the Tudor Era
This is the reality of 2020 and in many respects we have gone back to 1494, but it is not too late and make 2020 the year of change where there is full and real equality and not just a word that is spoken, but not meant.
This is not a sudden reversal to 1494 for it started some many years ago, well before 2010, but the last 10 years have been the worst.
Welfare benefits need to be reshaped to help those in need and not used as a punishment.
Social Care needs immediate funding to at least bring it back to 2010, which then was not sufficient.
It should not be seen as a crime to be disabled, to be poor, to be sick, etc for anyone of us, could be there tomorrow, if not today.
Boris needs to take this on board, Now, for to not do so, will create even more deaths than have been occurring and making a crisis in Social Care an even bigger crisis in health.
Health care has, over the last 10 years been continued to be funded, perhaps not to the degree as it should have been, but the drastic underfunding, or no funding for Social Care is causing more problems for health.
Whether we want it or not Social and Health care are very inter-related.
I now refer you to
Pease could I mention that the forthcoming Budget is an important opportunity to address the crucial issue of funding for Social Care, but will it.
Boris has promised, but will he keep his promise and even if money is made available will it be sufficient.
Boris has now mentioned it will take 5 years to get the funding, Social Care can not wait that long.
Boris needs to be told this is not good enough, so it is essential we keep the pressure on Boris and my petition ‘Solve the crisis in Social Care could be the means.
Please see below
We now have the New Year 2020.
However, if the ‘Crisis in Social Care’ is not Solved soon there will not be many more New Years for the care, required for persons in need of care, to be provided by Local Authorities due to their lack of funding.
This will then have a much greater impact on health care provision, which is itself in crisis.
I have therefore created my latest petition, please follow the link
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/solve-the-crisis-in-social-care
For more information please follow the link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w0f2skyxy37udqb/Solve%20the%20crisis%20in%20Social%20Care.docx?dl=0
Britain’s welfare state is being dismantled by people who take a 500-year-old attitude towards poverty and the poor. A Tudor peasant would be amazed at our TVs and fridge-freezers. But if you explained the benefits system to them, they’d see we hadn’t come so very far.
Five hundred years ago, the rich hit upon the perfect way to deal with the poor. It was to starve, humiliate, and harry them until they could no longer be noticed. Disappearance was acceptable, but death was better.
In 1494, it was decreed that ‘persons who are idle’ should be put in the stocks, and afterwards they could be deported to their home parish. In 1531 the poorest were required to apply for a licence. In 1536 they were threatened with being whipped, having an ear removed or being executed, if they begged in the wrong place.
And in 1552 their names were put on a list, and…
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Stroke care facing a ‘ticking time-bomb’, says charity : Welfare Weekly
Charity warns that the number of stroke professionals in the UK is at a worryingly low level.
Source: Stroke care facing a ‘ticking time-bomb’, says charity : Welfare Weekly
Harry and Meghan need to know that freelance life isn’t a walk in the park | Gaby Hinsliff | Opinion | The Guardian
When royals try to be entrepreneurial or work with billionaires, it doesn’t usually go well. Still, there’s always the acting, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
Harry and Meghan are stepping back from royal duties – CNN
Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are stepping back from their roles as senior members of the British royal family, the couple announced on Instagram.
Source: Harry and Meghan are stepping back from royal duties – CNN
Housing First is a costly charade! – Speye Joe
Late on Christmas Eve the government issued a press release to say 200 former rough sleepers would spend Christmas Day 2019 off the streets. How heartwarming … Yet what the government failed…
