I'm pretty sure they did this last year as well...this is not what the carers act funding was for 😳

Good to see you on here!

🤣...mines was spontaneous human combustion😳

A fantastic outcome! But I hate that people have to resort to taking legal action before councils do the right thing...😟

The worry is that councils are already failing in some of their statutory obligations, but nothing is ever done to hold them to account..

I saw the list of potential cuts being proposed in Dundee - it's all looking rather dire at the moment 😳

However, trying to introduce improvements to social care at a time when every single health and social care partnership is looking to make cuts to social care budgets is going to be challenging indeed!

www.gov.scot/news/deliver...

I am hoping that this will mean that the focus (and resources) will be targeted towards the implementation of Self Directed Support, a right to breaks from caring, and ensuring that people who need care and support are able to access that in a timely way without having to reach a crisis.

The Bill will no longer be about introducing a National Care Service. Instead, the priority will now be on bringing about some of the improvements to social care that carers and disabled people have been asking for over the last few years.

Social care charges are basically a form of care tax - something which only disabled people and those who require social care support are forced to pay. It's utterly unfair and I'm still in disbelief that this council has introduced these care charges.

Ha! That's exactly the feedback I got from my teen...followed by 'please don't ever bring that into our home again' 😂

Hi Colin, lovely to see you on here!🙂

Happy 16th to Evie! 🥳 Hope she has a fab day celebrating 🎂🎁❤️

Happy birthday Fiona!🥳 You're looking fab ♥️ xx

Lovely photos of your mum - sending lots of love ♥️

6. This is why we need to view social care through a human rights lens, and prioritise the views of people who require care and support - otherwise we will never get past the economic and funding arguments that seem to dominate the headlines.

5. Social care is the means by which many people (particularly disabled people, older people, and unpaid carers) are able to access the same human rights as everyone else.

4. Social care is not (as the BBC article states) :

"help for older or disabled people with day-to-day tasks such as washing, dressing, medication and eating."

It is much more than that.