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To: Harold Bodmer, Director of Community Services Norfolk County Council
Reinstate the money taken from the Norfolk Learning Disabilities Service
Dear Mr Bodmer
The Council has decided to keep 14% of the money for all five Learning Disability (LD) teams across Norfolk, depriving LD services of £960K. Losing that money means that specialist services for people with LD will be cut and specialist staff, who are trained to support the health needs of these very vulnerable people, will lose their jobs. We call on Norfolk County Council to reinstate this money to prevent people from being deprived of specialist healthcare which cannot be provided by equally overstretched mainstream services.
Why is this important?
The LD service is very specialist with relatively few staff doing different but highly specialist jobs. LD staff visit people in their homes for many reasons. For instance, we work hard to keep people out of hospital, if people do go to hospital we work to prevent readmission, we adapt homes so people don’t have to leave their family home or go into expensive care services, and we work with people to help them stay healthy and active, so that they don’t have to use other more expensive health services. And very often, there just aren’t any other services that can provide the care that we do. Norfolk County Council has cut Learning Disabilities Services by £960K and chosen to use the money elsewhere. But this money should be protected by Law for the specific care needs of people with learning disabilities. Help us get Norfolk County Council to reverse its harmful decision to cut Learning Disabilities services.
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