Do you know it’s Carers’ Week this week?

Probably not.  It hasn’t exactly been trumpeted from the rooftops has it?

Yet it is estimated that carers save the country £87 billion a year, the equivalent of the entire budget of the NHS. 

They deserve better recognition.

But what do they get?  Well in Wokingham, they get a consultation on changes to charges for Day Care, Home Care and Respite Care.  And in case you are wondering what “changes to charges” means, it means “putting them up”.  The consultation document doesn’t even tell you how much people would be charged. 

I have submitted a question to the Council Executive for next week (24th June).  It says

“The Council is conducting a consultation on the proposed changes to charges for Day Care, Home Care and Respite Care Services.   Can the Executive member for Social Care please tell me what steps have been taken to make sure that the consultation produces properly valid evidence to feed in to decision-making, in terms of its content, distribution and assessment of responses?”

 

I wonder what the answer is going to be?

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