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Green light for extra home care hours

Conservative councillors’ view of a recent decision by South Gloucestershire Council A call by ‘out of touch’ Labour and LibDem councillors on South Gloucestershire Council to think again on plans to provide hundreds more home care hours has been dismissed by the authority’s Conservative care chief. Following a special ‘call-in’ meeting of its Community Care & Housing Select Committee back

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Controversial nursing home plans to go ahead

A Labour councillor’s view of a recent decision by South Gloucestershire Council Plans by a local council to stop providing homes for elderly people are to go ahead despite being challenged by opposition councillors. Labour councillors on South Gloucestershire Council had challenged the Conservative-led authority’s plans to stop providing homes for elderly people. The councillors “called-in” a decision made by

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Labour-LibDem call for renewed consultation on care home plans is “bizarre” says top Tory

A call by Labour and LibDem councillors on South Gloucestershire Council to think again on plans to provide hundreds more home care hours for the elderly has been branded ‘bizarre’ by the authority’s Conservative Cabinet Member for Community Care and Housing. It follows a request by Labour and LibDem councillors for the Conservative-run authority to re-consult on using an external

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Opposition unites against U-turn on care homes

A major change to South Gloucestershire’s proposals to provide new Elderly Persons Homes (EPH) will have to be reconsidered, a council committee decided yesterday (27th October).  Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors joined forces to insist that a U-turn by the ruling Conservatives should be consulted on. Back in February, the Conservative Cabinet agreed a new strategy for supporting older people,

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Council’s nursing home plans challenged by Labour

Plans by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) to stop providing homes for elderly people are to be challenged at a special council meeting. Labour councillors have mounted a challenge to the Conservative-led authority’s plans to stop providing homes for elderly people. The councillors have “called-in” a decision made by Councillor Matthew Riddle in which he is authorising the lease of land

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