A year ago Boris Johnson promised to tackle the social care crisis. Age UK director Caroline Abrahams said the PM must honour this pledge, or thousands of elderly people will continue to suffer needlessly and the social care sector will never recover from the hammer blow caused by the pandemic. A huge petition, signed by 110,000 people, was handed in, to put pressure on him to deliver on his promise to provide the decent level of care the elderly deserve. Also the UK Home Care Association, which represents those providing home help, said that unless he acts the vulnerable will continue to receive rationed, underfunded services that are started too late to prevent independence deteriorating. When Mr Johnson became Prime Minister, he said his job was to protect people from the fear of having to sell their home to pay for care costs.
Social care crisis
Written by David Fletcher 23 Jul 2020Additional Info
- Pray: for Boris to honour his pledge to ‘fix the crisis in social care once and for all’ and produce a workable plan to eliminate sky-high care bills for variable standards of care. (Proverbs 29:7a)
- More: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8539119/Boris-Johnson-warned-elderly-suffering-unless-tackles-social-care-crisis.html