Regarding a passage from the Oxfordshire County Council website regarding cuts: (Staff reductions, Keeping down contract costs, Provision of transport for day services), it looks like home support and relief for carers will be shut down, so will no longer be available.
Although they say that more and more local people are being given personal budgets or forced to take personal budgets, council staff have been forced to refuse new referrals for home support and relief for carers so the council are in fact distorting the figures to enable them shut down home support and make a number of staff redundant.
I’m in my 70s and have been a carer for many years. I do not like what is happening to a very good service.
I need home support and relief from my caring duties and I do not want the added worry of having to juggle a personal budget at my age and go looking for carers.
How do I know who to trust, and what about transport, does that come out of a personal budget?
John Norcliffe, Oxon
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