Steve Henigan
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Comment on: Watchdog tells councils to reduce care home spending
I read Chloë Stothart’s recent article (‘Watchdog tells councils to reduce care home spending’, Inside Housing, 18th February) with great interest and also want to share my support for providing older people with independent living provisions. However, the Audit Commission’s proposal to spend less than 40 per cent of their older people’s care budget on care homes has the disastrous potential of putting cost cutting ahead of the safety and welfare of older people.
Although there are many benefits of supporting independent living, it cannot be substitute for the personal care and social support that older people receive whilst in care homes. In my view, Local Authorities should be looking how they can make their care homes more cost efficient rather than proceeding with what could be seen as a blatant cost cutting exercise.
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