‘I feel completely ignored’: the human impact of respite care costs
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2024
- Local councils in England face the voters tomorrow with many struggling to stay afloat. Many council leaders say the cost of social care is a huge challenge which now absorbs two-thirds of their budgets. But at the same time, many carers say they're not getting the support they need. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
Now a charity has taken central government to an Information Tribunal in a bid to force them to reveal how they decide how much money is allocated for social care.
We met one woman fighting to get the help she needs as she looks after her nephew 365 days a year.
Liverpool City Council added to their statement on Marie's case, telling us: “A social work visit has been arranged to discuss the current support options available and also to review Marie’s nephew’s care and support needs, including his contingency plans for when his aunt is on holiday.”
“We acknowledge that there have been a number of Social Workers involved in supporting Marie’s nephew over recent years, and we apologise for this.”
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Where does all the money go? We have no public services, the infrastructure is collapsing..we should be able to hold the government to account for where they are putting all the taxpayers money!
Corruption
They are putting your money towards private companies that they have interests in.
The Tories have to fund their tax cuts somehow.
I'm disabled, I remember the moment my council and government tried to murder me with austerity.
I'm still here, I won.
@@Craig121000Just a hint of melodrama there from Craig 🤣🤣🤣
I'm the one laughing. I'm still here.
Both my government and local council are in shambles.
I'm thriving. You're anti-Woks, triggered and angry that I've got the ability to speak out
Kindly what are procedures for somebody who want to be a frontier of social care jobs because am interested if I get a chance please.
@@Craig121000 i think you meant "anti woke" but then again the insecure lil fella felt the need to put UK in his username, so i reckon he also files "woks" under "foreign muck" and screams impotently at them in the supermarket.
I loved the two elderly folks i cared for. Yes i didn't look at it as job. My friend Judy and i cared for her aunt for a long time. Yes she fired me at least once a week. I occasionally got her jelly doughnuts at least once a week. Finally after getting fired 4 times in 2 weeks she looked at me and said i just cant run off can i. I told her i didn't take it seriously personally . She gave me a hug and said i love you you're tough. We became more than care giver and employed we became friends. friends
Another friends dad needed help with his father. Bertha had passed away and I just was a caregiver for my cats. I agreed to take of Popy I called him. I loved cooking. And keeping him happy. Worked out great. He had to go to the hospital and I agreed I sit with him every day from breakfast to dinner and if the Braves played I stay over. Hospitals are scary when you're older . I didn't expect pay for this I just enjoyed looking after him. I had an accident and had to rent a truck so I could get back and forth. I think I needed them as much as they needed me. I felt purpose again. My life has been one of service for others. Now I care for my daughter's kids while she works as an EMT. I'm very proud of her even though I didn't raise her. Now my life is one of purpose again. I didn't realize I needed her as much as she did me. I guess the majority of my babl might bore most. Just always remember people really do need people. God bless.
I had to put my 20 year old into care last year. Hardest decision I've ever made. There is no help for us and I had done it on my own the majority of her life. Couldn't cope anymore still trying to find normality.
It is possible to find a residential home for disabled and elderly relatives with complex or continual care or nursing needs. A good home can actually give the person being cared for more opportunities for recreation, relationships and outings. It can give independence back to the cared for person.
My m-i-l has gone from strength to strength at her care home. They are available 24/365. The downside is that this level of care costs £1000+ per week.
and yet somehow it's still acceptable to only pay less than £100 a week in carers allowance.
And most carers are totally unpaid.
78 quid a week@@piddlydiddly
Supported residential accommodation for younger folks with physical and learning difficulties would include games, group activities and days out. People confuse supported accommodation with visions of elderly care nursing homes. Perhaps if he stayed in one for a couple of weeks she would get respite and he could see if he actually liked it and she could visit and take him out whenever. They are not gulags
It's shocking even if the guy wanted to go to Barbados then this should be facilitated. This is what we worked hard to bring people out of old school long term institutions. It's all about costs cutting/ funding cuts. It's people's lives at the end of the day 😢
There is no support for care in any way. I was promised a hospital bed( i managed to get a new bed & we are still waiting for the promised bed)for my mother that i got out of hospital after a stroke just day's before COVID lockdown. I got stuck abroad even though the country i was in was exempt from COVID laws. It took 6 months to get shopping for my then 83 year old stroke victim mother & no shops would deliver. I had to beg people to do the shopping but the actual carers were wonderful but believed the Lise on the tv & were shocked when I finally returned & produced the actual act.
Stephen is just 50 he looks at 4 walls 7 days a week restbite in sandpipers costs £5000 I wouldn't put him in a nursing home EVER I promised my sister to look after him not throw him in a nursing home
Maybe you and your mother should've saved up for it... I don't want my taxes going to immigrants and freeloaders... enough is enough, my food and energy bills are through the roof and you want me to pay more to keep you fed and warm?
Thank you for this sending strength, Love & healing to whomever needs it 🙏💜🇬🇧
Our council's only care about 1 think and that is how much money they receive for them. My rent is ridiculous on this 2 bed flat. Real talk 👄
Get your finger out. If she can't do it anymore (carer breakdown) it'll cost you a helluva lot more than the measly respite their asking for. 😠
blessings to her I hope she gets the much needed rest .
It’s Heartbreaking this country. 💔💔
Brexit has cost £140 Billion so far, imagine if we'd spent that on the country instead of far right unicorns.
Right wingers are okay with letting vulnerable people die if they don't provide wealth.
She's right. They do know and they exploit the fact that you won't walk away.
Unpaid carers of adult disabled people have no legal responsibility to keep providing free care. The free care they provide saves the state £163 billion per year. Or if you want to look at it individually, if the state had to provide 24/7 care for a carer’s loved one because the carer decided to stop providing free care, it would cost the public purse £82,992 per year. Carer’s on low/no income because they’ve been forced to give up work (due to closure of day centres), recieve £4,258.8 per year. Carer’s who receive benefits therefor contribute £78,733.20 per year to the state.
Meanwhile every MP costs us £91,346 every year in basic salary, not to mention all the extra allowances for second homes and so on. The tories have been in power for a decade and a half. What demonstrable contribution to our economy/community have they made to offset the enormous costs of their benefits? Tories need to stop leaching off the public purse.
Unpaid carers save the country £162 billion per year - the equivalent of the entire NHS budget. Every time a carer gives up on unpaid caring because they can’t afford to live, it costs the public purse around £88,816 per year to provide 24/7 care to that carer’s loved one. The country would go bankrupt overnight if carers stopped putting up with this nonsense - they are holding this country up and out of economic implosion.
Oh wow! What a horrible situation! We need to send more aid to Ukraine to make up for this now!
We paying billions to war and other countries, but Our leaders failed to serve UK people.
see they are doing ok , let´s send some more Tax money to Ukraine
Why is the narrator talking to us like we are all children? Annoying.
I go to work to fund myself, not pay for everyone else. They should make their own arrangements.
Oh dear. 🤦♂️
You *will* not maybe, *will* need care and support at some point in your life. And with that attitude it won't be there when you _do_ need it.
how can they make their own arrangements on the £70 a week carers allowance? if you have a job on the side, you're no longer entitled.
@@MrSmith_ yes and to support that cost, we should stop giving people who aren't pulling their own weight free cash so the rest of us that are can save enough for our needs. If you want UK funded Healthcare, move to Ukraine or Israel.
@@maigepresents5840 You're saying that carers aren't pulling their weight? Or the people that need the care?
Never talks about Islam as sad as this is I want to see more things about Islam
Why ?
We need less Islam, not more!
@@JVSwailesBoudicca because Islam is a religion that is constantly stereotyped and hated on everyone automatically thinks were terroists your asking why my friend I’m saying because my grandad is a Muslim who wears a hat he gets mocked and laughed at and racially stereotyped constantly I’m sick of the news staying quite
We can do without that stone aged nonsense cluttering things up thanks.
@@JVSwailesBoudiccayou really aren't the sharpest tool in the shed are ya?