Monday 8 February 2016

Cutting ever deeper: councils left no choice but to hollow out elderly care

Cutting ever deeper: councils left no choice but to hollow out elderly care Cambridgeshire is just one of many authorities forced to cut social care, leaving increasing numbers of elderly people stuck in hospital wards or waiting in A&E

The debating chamber of Cambridgeshire council belongs to a distant age. When it was built, local councils ran local services.

Once the site of the university city’s medieval castle, it must have seemed a fitting successor to a fortification intended to ensure mastery of the surrounding area. There is throne-like seating for council leaders, and a hemisphere of benches of sturdy wood and leather for the councillors. Continue reading... The Guardian

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