Eileen Cartie, a community development worker from Blyth in Northumberland is seeking help to get members of the public to urgently aid residents in greatest need from being exposed to unaffordable charges to pay for the Council’s telecare and mobile warden scheme.
Northumberland County Council, a Tory led all purpose unitary authority who are in the process of employing a private ‘Fund Manager’ to salt away millions of pounds in development cash, are forcing up the costs as they indicate are causing budgetary pressure on social services and safeguarding departments.
The fund manager from an international accountantcy firm is being brought in to what workers believe to separate these huge cash windfalls from data companies drawn down from the Blyth estuary data bank schemes from the Council’s mandatory budget process. It is suspected that this cash which the Council will receive each and every year for the next decade at least, will be used to support glamour projects outside of the Counties poorest areas.
The current attack on the most vulnerable is being ‘consulted’ upon, and will lay huge additional cost burdens on the service users and their families who have a choice of ‘pay up or else’.
An option does also sit in letters to service users to accept a much reduced service that pushes up costs by 25% and removes the mobile wardens from the deal.
At the moment the monitoring and mobile warden scheme costs users £6:45 per week. The majority of users are older people not on the new state pension and they and their families are now being invited to pay £797.22 per annum without any service improvements being placed before them to show what if any improvements or benefits they will gain from this huge rise in cost.
So if you live in Northumberland, community activists want you to join in with the consultation to help those in greatest need stay in their own homes as that is the prime benefit of this scheme but the ransom being set by the Tories in Northumberland is ‘pay up or pay to go into a home’. A massive fear for service users and their relatives.
P.S. Don't forget to speak with your local county councillor and talk this through with them.
Notes:
WHO IS YOUR COUNTY COUNCILLOR?
https://northumberland.moderngov.co.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?bcr=1
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/northumberland-telecare-user-fears-forced-182511553.html
https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/NorthumberlandCountyCouncil/media/Health-and-social-care/Care%20support%20for%20adults/Consultation%20Document%20-%20Northumberland%20Telecare%20Service%20Review%20Proposals.pdf
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