Hyndburn MP's concern over adult social care cuts (From Blackburn Citizen)
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Hyndburn MP's concern over adult social care cuts
1:27pm Monday 4th March 2013 in News
AN MP has pledged to make adult social care a priority in the face of budget cuts.
Hyndburn MP Graham Jones said in meetings with the county council he was making his concerns on the future of day care centres known.
He said he had met county council leader Geoff Driver and that they had agreed on broad principles of delivering and improving adult social care.
He went on: “I believe it is important to protect the physical day care facilities in Lancashire, and avoid an across the board shift towards the type of personal budgeting that isn't conducive to community, interaction and advancement. Though we agreed on a lot, I am nonetheless still concerned about the future of Oakenhead Centre, and I intend to visit Enfield Day Centre in the near future. I made clear my concerns that day centres are being replaced by cost cutting measures dressed up as personal care budgets.”
Malcolmp says...
6:33pm Mon 4 Mar 13
Further to the story about Day Care - if the MP would attend full Council meetings at County Hall he may have heard my comments about cuts in the community care budget. Some people will attend the appropriate meetings not just try to score cheap points in the local paper.
Yours sincerely County Councillor Malcolm Pritchard Accrington North