News from Brent Labour

Disabled kids handicapped by Brent Lib Dem cuts

Official report shows Brent is simply the worst.

A government survey of parental experiences of services provided for disabled children shows Brent to be simply the worst performing local authority in the entire country.

The survey was conducted by social research company TNS-BMRB on behalf of the Department for Children, Schools and Families between July and November 2009 and scores were given to each local authority based on extensive questioning of parents of disabled children.

The average score for English local authorities was 61 (out of 100), a slight improvement on 59 a year earlier. The best performing local authorities were North Tyneside and Northumberland County Council who both scored 67. Brent’s score of 55 was simply the worst.

Brent Council’s Labour Opposition has repeatedly condemned the Lib Dem and Tory run council for cutting services for disabled older people. Now it appears that the ’savage cuts’ favoured by the Liberal Democrats and Tories are impacting adversely on disabled children as well.

Labour’s Spokesperson for Children & Families, Cllr Mary Arnold, said:

“This report makes shocking reading and it confirms our worst suspicions that services for the most vulnerable have rapidly deteriorated under this incompetent right wing administration. They have clobbered older disabled people by trebling care charges and now it is revealed that their services for disabled children are the worst in the country.”

Other news from Brent Labour

• Liberal Democrat councillors go AWOL in Brent - 23 January 2012
• Brent Labour condemns privatisation of 999 Control Room Function - 21 January 2012
• Brent Labour brands Clegg's party the "Fib Dems" over broken promises - 21 October 2010