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In Scotland, to allow proper care, a young woman is moved to another care home, on a temporary basis, within the same region.
Iona said the care home and its staff were “lovely”, but she wants to be back in her own home.
but for BBC Scotland, it’s
Woman, 29, ‘chucked’ into care home 100 miles from family
and in the same report on a responsibility, entirely of a local authority, the story is linked to the SNP, as we approach an election:
Kate Forbes, deputy first minister and SNP MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, said she was made aware of Iona’s situation in December.
Meanwhile, in England’s Guardian today but nowhere near the headlines:
England’s “creaking” adult social care system is confusing and impenetrable to the people that rely on it and held together with “sticking plasters and glue”, the head of a government-commissioned review has said in a withering critique.
Louise Casey said the country faced a “moment of reckoning” over its failure to effectively and fairly meet the needs of Britain’s ageing population and rising numbers of people with chronic conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.
In a frank and often passionate speech, Casey said society needed to face up to the major challenge of overhauling an underpowered system in which “some needs are barely met at all and others are met late and in piecemeal and random ways”.
Surely that’s a far far bigger story, but BBC England today:
Nowhere to be seen.
Yesterday, they had ‘Trying to get social care can be ‘horrendous’, Baroness Casey tells BBC’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4gg9ywereo but it’s comfortably gone by today
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I would conjecture BBC Scotland trying desperately to smear Kate Forbes and by virtue our Government.
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