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Council boss in Capita care cuts storm admits one in five had support reduced

By John Pring on 16th February 2017 Category: Independent Living

Council boss in Capita care cuts storm admits one in five had support reduced
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A council leader has admitted that one in five of the disabled people whose care packages were reassessed by the discredited outsourcing company Capita have had their support cut. Simon Letts, the Labour leader of Southampton City Council (SCC), also admitted […]

‘Immoral’ Capita offered £200 bonuses to social workers to slash care packages

By John Pring on 2nd February 2017 Category: Independent Living

‘Immoral’ Capita offered £200 bonuses to social workers to slash care packages
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The outsourcing company Capita offered freelance social workers financial bonuses – and put them up in luxury hotels – to encourage them to help a local authority cut disabled and older people’s care packages. A whistleblower has told Disability News Service […]

Council ‘pays Capita to cut care packages’

By John Pring on 22nd September 2016 Category: Independent Living

Council ‘pays Capita to cut care packages’
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A local authority has employed the outsourcing giant Capita to clear a backlog of annual reviews of its service-users’ care packages, in an apparent attempt to cut costs and help fill a hole in its budget. The “pilot project” has so […]

Threat to independent living as council plots raid on high-cost care

By John Pring on 11th December 2015 Category: Independent Living

Threat to independent living as council plots raid on high-cost care
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A cost-cutting council is set to introduce new policies that will force disabled people with high-cost support packages out of their own homes and into residential and nursing institutions. Labour-run Southampton city council wants to cut its adult social care budget […]

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