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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 8 January 2009
 
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


Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@thecnj.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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