THE campaign to protect levels of care at the council care homes is not over. Why it has to be such a hard fought campaign I do not understand.The current issue is one of basic social justice for the staff.
Without debate or approval from councillors, Social Services bosses have banned staff from applying for their own jobs if they also want to be part of the co-operative bid. I am not a legal expert but is that anyway to behave in the year 2000?
The staff are told they are about to be made redundant, but they are not allowed to support the co-operative and apply for a few posts in the remaining council-run homes. Blackpool Social Services seems to be a human rights free zone.
All the indications are that staff and therefore care levels will be cut in the homes the council have been forced to keep open. We at CARE cannot therefore claim any real victory in our campaign. The only hope is that the co-operative bid for two homes will be approved and that later next year the co-operative can then bid to run FOUR of the care homes.
By the way have readers noticed that in the four-month campaign, there has not been one letter from a single Labour councillor defending their position?
Steven Bate,
Spokesman for CARE,
Ashfield Rd, Blackpool.
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