News from Bromley Labour

Bromley adult social care criticised, Labour calls for reverse of cuts

Bromley has been ordered to urgently improve the quality of it’s Social Care Services for adults following an independent report. Bromley is one of only eight councils in England to have been criticised by the Social Care Commission.

The council’s provision has been criticised as only adequate in the areas of Improving Health and Well Being, Increasing Choice and Control, Freedom from Discrimination and Harassment, Maintaining Dignity and Respect and the overall Delivery of Outcomes.

Cllr John Getgood, Leader of the Labour group, commented:

“The council is failing vulnerable adults. Some aspects of the service are rightly recognised as good but we have warned Bromley Tories that waiting times are too long and we have been ignored. We have fought against cuts to services to the elderly and we have again been ignored. Now the Labour Government is having to intervene to put right their failure of care for the elderly people of Bromley.”

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