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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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AM backs call for urgent social care reforms
April 2, 2009 12:00 AM
Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Minister, Peter Black is backing urgent recommendations from the Joseph Rowntree Trust that are aimed at making the social care system fairer and more sustainable.
The recommendations include free personal care for people already getting nursing care, and a doubling of the £21.50 weekly allowance paid to care home residents for items such as clothes and shoes.
Mr. Black said:
"These recommendations are aimed at making life better for older people and their carers now rather than continuing to wait for the government to come up with legislation.
"Ministers have said that they are eager to help, and this is one way that they could begin to make a difference now rather than later.
"Caring for vulnerable people properly is a mark of a civilised society, whether we are in the middle of a recession or not.
"The Joseph Rowntree Trust has worked out that the cost of all the measures they have proposed is £775m a year for the whole of the UK.
"Obviously, that is a great deal of money. However, it's a lot less than the government was prepared to pay to bail out the bankers who got us all into this mess in the first place
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