To: Dudley metropolitan borough council
Save New Bradley Hall Residential Care Home
Keep it open as a long term residential care home
Why is this important?
New Bradley Hall is the last remaining local authority owned long term residential care home in Dudley. It currently houses about 30 residents with ages ranging from over 70 to over 100. Some are blind or partially sighted whilst others have dementia.
Some have been there for over 25 years and if they are forced to leave then they will die.
If there are no local authority owned care homes for the most weak and vulnerable in our society, two things will happen.
Firstly, there would be nothing to prevent all the private care home providers getting together, forming a cartel in the same way that the gas, water, electricity and train companies have and charging whatever they could get away with.
Secondly, the council would effectively wash their hands of any responsibility of care for the elderly, so if you had a concern about the quality of care for your loved one at a privately owned home where would you go?
So it is absolutely vital that every borough keeps at least one care home in public ownership.
Some have been there for over 25 years and if they are forced to leave then they will die.
If there are no local authority owned care homes for the most weak and vulnerable in our society, two things will happen.
Firstly, there would be nothing to prevent all the private care home providers getting together, forming a cartel in the same way that the gas, water, electricity and train companies have and charging whatever they could get away with.
Secondly, the council would effectively wash their hands of any responsibility of care for the elderly, so if you had a concern about the quality of care for your loved one at a privately owned home where would you go?
So it is absolutely vital that every borough keeps at least one care home in public ownership.
