Opportunity for Verbal Updates
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Minutes:
North Argyll
Carers
The Committee Manager read out a statement on behalf of Judith Hawcroft, the statement read:
‘I
am concerned for my staff because of the increasing demand for support and
growing complexity of the carers’ circumstances. I stated that unpaid carers
are holding together an ailing social care system and that if they became
unable to provide care because of burn-out, the repercussions would be very
serious and far-reaching. I referred to my disappointment that £120,000 worth
of carer support funding had been described as an “underspend” at the end of
the 2022-23 financial year and had been reallocated to balance the budget,
despite carers centres requesting the funding and describing practical
preventative support they could provide, with the funding, to prevent carer breakdown’.
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