Disabled people 'sleeping in their clothes and surviving on biscuits' due to Tory cuts

Disabled people are sleeping fully-clothed in their wheelchairs and surviving on biscuits due to cuts to social care, according to a new report.


Many are in crisis because social care services are "crumbling", the research by the charity Scope found.

It said that people have had their care packages cut and cannot get the right care.

The Scope survey of 500 disabled people found 55 per cent say they cannot get the support they need to live independently. Some 55 per cent of disabled social care users do not think they have enough hours in their care package.
Mark Atkinson, chief executive of Scope, said: "Our findings show the horrific consequences that disabled people face as a result of our collapsing social care system.

"Disabled people have told us they are waiting 14 hours to go to the toilet, sleeping in their clothes, unable to eat or wash and left socially isolated."

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/disabled-people-sleeping-in-their-clothes-and-eating-biscuits-due-to-tory-cuts--byWKIq5UZFx


Anglia TV have been running a series on cutbacks to care.  Tonight they had an old couple in their 80s, she had something that caused her to shake all the time, can't even get a cup of tea to her mouth without his help.  He has pain trying to walk.  They have 3 hrs care a fortnight.  The Council spokemen (Tory) said it is inevitable.  NO IT IS NOT!!!!!!!  It is inevitable with Tory cuts, and that is the only reason.  Stop giving tax breaks to millionaires, stop letting huge conglomerates doing us out of billions in taxes, ditch trident, and money for the things we need is there!

He said the social care funding gap is growing by at least £700m a year.

and stop importing the worlds waifs and strays as well

sassy wrote:Disabled people are sleeping fully-clothed in their wheelchairs and surviving on biscuits due to cuts to social care, according to a new report.


Many are in crisis because social care services are "crumbling", the research by the charity Scope found.

It said that people have had their care packages cut and cannot get the right care.

The Scope survey of 500 disabled people found 55 per cent say they cannot get the support they need to live independently. Some 55 per cent of disabled social care users do not think they have enough hours in their care package.
Mark Atkinson, chief executive of Scope, said: "Our findings show the horrific consequences that disabled people face as a result of our collapsing social care system.

"Disabled people have told us they are waiting 14 hours to go to the toilet, sleeping in their clothes, unable to eat or wash and left socially isolated."

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/disabled-people-sleeping-in-their-clothes-and-eating-biscuits-due-to-tory-cuts--byWKIq5UZFx


Anglia TV have been running a series on cutbacks to care.  Tonight they had an old couple in their 80s, she had something that caused her to shake all the time, can't even get a cup of tea to her mouth without his help.  He has pain trying to walk.  They have 3 hrs care a fortnight.  The Council spokemen (Tory) said it is inevitable.  NO IT IS NOT!!!!!!!  It is inevitable with Tory cuts, and that is the only reason.  Stop giving tax breaks to millionaires, stop letting huge conglomerates doing us out of billions in taxes, ditch trident, and money for the things we need is there!

He said the social care funding gap is growing by at least £700m a year.

I offer my personal disdain/contempt call it what you will to all of you who voted in the Tories, I hope you are proud of yourselves for bringing these dreadful consequences to our poor disabled, shame on you.

Letting all these foreigners into OUR country who have not contributed to OUR NHS is your fault.
Our NHS is one big pot which is struggling to help our own disabled and sick folks, bringing in 1000s of scroungers from across the sea to take from an already diminishing pot is MADNESS equating to OUR OWN getting LESS, does not take much working out does it?

LOOK AFTER OUR OWN FIRST.