Community Care Magazine: The Postcode Lottery of Care

Following on from my last post with a link to my article in Community Care Magazine, here's one I prepared earlier!

This piece ran 13 years ago when Chrissy was 16, & it's about inconsistency of service levels offered by local authorities.

We had just moved to Buckinghamshire, & the support hours that Chrissy had received in Hertfordshire, where we'd lived previously, were cut in half. Chrissy's needs hadn't changed but the council claimed they 'didn't have a big enough purse.'

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/21/12/2000/29262/losing-out-in-the-postcode-lottery.htm



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Community Care Magazine: The Endless Search for Suitable Housing for My Daughter with Learning Disablities

Community Care, the online magazine for social workers & care professionals, got in touch to ask me to write a piece for them based on my post about barriers to moving Chrissy into appropriate housing in the community. Here's the link. Hope you like it!

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/05/07/2013/119308/the-endless-search-for-suitable-housing-for-my-daughter-with-learning-disabilities.htm




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