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@DesperateofDevon here is a quick summary of the content. Sounds like plans are being drawn up, but what is in those plans remains to be seen. I am hoping the government take onboard the House of Lords report, anyway heres a quick summary of the response I recieved today.....
Esther McVey replied saying that the Prime Minister will be announcing plans to tackle the issue in the near future and then to respond with my thoughts on those plans. So she didn't really say very much at all.
The Minister of State for Care, Caroline Dinenage, wrote two sides in response, acknowledging the role I do and that such carer roles deserve to be better recognised, but no indication of what she meant by that. Most of the letter was rhetoric that many of us already know about current funding and the selling of family homes to pay for care, so she didn't answer my original raising of the report by the House of Lords on the scandal of social care. The Minister did finish by saying and I qoute:
Dementia is a major health and care challenge of our time, and we are working to improve care and support to make this the best country in the world to live with the condition.
She then went on to say that local authorities have been given £4billion this year as dedicated funding for social care, with a further £410million available for adults and childrens services. But importantly she has given her assurance that the Prime Minister is committed to fixing the problem and proposals will follow in due course.