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WHY I RECOMMEND CARERS WHO SAVE THIS COUNTRY 119 BILLION POUNDS A YEAR TO USE FULL TIME CARE.
UPDATED 4th April 2012
There are over 400 councils in England and Wales who are extorting millions unlawfully of disabled adults and their carers and breaching Council guidelines by failing to hold Consultation when altering reducing or withdrawing services that disabled adults have been assessed for. This is explained in detail in the Community Care Law, Consultation and Carers Rights sections of this website. The only way carers will retain their services and stop Councils charging you to death unlawfully when the disabled adults benefits are used up is by giving your council an ultimatum retain my services or provide full time care for my disabled adult on income support some costing £1500 to £3500 a week this is your right and the only way you will get justice. Every carer who cannot manage with reduced services and cannot afford those extortionate charges when their benefits are used up. Pushing you the carer into poverty. Those carers who have taken the desperate step of telling the council provide full time care, as I cannot manage with reduced services have retained them. When their disabled adults benefits are used up refuse to pay the charges. They can’t take you to court they are breaking Community Care Law law not you. Councils know this would flood carers seeking full time care.
WHY DO I ADVICE CARERS TO USE FULL TIME CARE. Phone hacking is unlawful and it has been going on for years. They have got away with acting illegally because nobody has complained till now. This is exactly what 400 councils are doing unlawfully with charging, slashing services and failing to hold Consultation. They have got away with it until now as nobody had complained. Carers don’t know Community Care Law. In April 2003 I was the main carer who helped Mencap to implement the ammendment to Section 17 of the HASSASSA Act that resulted in the Fairer Charging Policy becoming law. But all councils are blatantly breaching council guidelines and Community Care Law costing carers millions and pushing them into poverty. Councils time after time fail to hold accurate financial assessments as to their ability to pay. When a disabled adult on income supports income falls below basic benefit + income support +a buffer of 25% all community care charges must be free. They are not.
A disabled adult costing £2000 to £3500 a week in care recieves 6% to 10% of their full time care costs in benefits. Then the council want to charge out of this for services that should be free. £200 benefits! Disability related expenditure—– £51 for essential mobility vehicle. £15 petrol for their use. £10 for council transport charges. £36 contribution to ILF care. Due to incontinence 12 extra washes and drying per week £30. Council meal 5x£4-20p=£21. £10 replace one garment due to incontinence. £20 contribution to rent. £10 contribution to utility bills. £203, More than all the benefits gone. Carer has to find costs and replacement of their clothing and bedding. Carer has to find all their food, carer has to find all their drink carer has to find their share of house contribution water rates, phone and house insurance bill and all their other disability related expenditure. So carers provide 168 hours of care free and up to £50 a week of their own money to keep their disabled adult at home saving the council up to £3000 a week £182000 a year in full time care costs. Everything is itemised in detail in the other pages. Therefore council charges are unlawful so do not pay them they are breaching the law not you. Any carer compelled to pay council charges is illegal they should be free
If you comply with the above and are one penny out of pocket the charges are unlawful. They could not find a Community Care Lawyer to take you to court they not you are breaking the law on three counts. They know they would be met by a full suitcase for full time care. All charges must be met by law by the disabled adult. As all their benefits are used up council transport charges shoud be free. If they charge and the carer pays they are breaching the law again as the care must never pay only the disabled adult. When you are given bills for respite care when all the benefits are used up this could be proved by the financial assessment you should get but don’t. When the disabled adult benefits are used up and the care charges subsidising by the carer them the charge must be free. If the council compell you to pay that again is unlawful. Don’t pay it is the councils that must prove they can afford to pay and you have proved they can’t. Even a child knows a carer cannot afford charges on 6% to 10% of their full time care costs. All disabled adults in receipt of income support must be excempt from community care charges
I through this website backed by Mencap Carers UK and many other large organisations supported by a top London expert in Community Care Law Professor Luke Clements can find one of the 400 Chief Executives of councils most paid more than the Prime Minister or their directors to meet me with or without the press this like the phone hacking must stop. Should the council still try to compel you to pay give your council an ultimatum no charge or provide me with their full time care. You have plenty of bargaining power carers save this country 119 billion pounds a year. Should your council reduce alter or withdraw a service they have been assessed as needing just inform the council you cannot look after your disabled adult with a reduced service give them again an ultimatum provide the service or provide you with full time care. When your council tries to reduce or withdraw a service without consultation it is breaching council guidelines. Councils are breaking the law and breaching council guidelines time after time after time.
Lastly if you have a doubly incontinent disabled adult and the council with or without consultation want to change your collection of yellow bags of stench from 7 day to 14 days without supplying reinforced yellow bags refuse to turning your property into a dump it site for sewage. I had Rotherham heavily criticised in Parliament and they returned me to weekly collection while leaving may others with 14 day collection. Give your council an ultimatum return to weekly collection with yellow bags supplied or provide my disabled adult with full time care. Refuse all reduction in services. Refuse to pay unlawful charges for services. Refuse to accept 14 day collection of stench. I with the Mencap and the other authorities want to bring councils to book by getting it brought up on the radio and the television and we will make the councils comply with the law.
GEORGE VALENTINE
CAMPAIGNER AND ADVISER TO THE DISABLED AND THEIR CARERS