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Shameful cuts target the most vulnerable


10/11/2005

THE decision to close Northlea Day Care Centre in Sale Moor and Altrincham's Pownall Road Centre (Metro News, October 28) is yet another instance of the Tory council riding roughshod over the wishes of some of the moist vulnerable people in the borough.

Do councillors Ogden, Merrell and Bailey not agree that service users and their carers have said very clearly that they are more than happy with the current service provision at Northlea and do no want the changes that are being imposed on them?

Carers will no longer benefit from the brief respite the centres offer them at present and for man service users it will mean being trapped within their own four walls.

The happy and beneficial relationships built up between staff and service users will be gone.

I have heard of nothing even "in the pipeline" to replace these centres which means that it is cutting for cutting's sake. It obviously doesn't matter where the Tory axe falls, just so long as it does fall, preferably on a group unable to fight back too hard.


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