An illuminating report on the Which? Conversation website describes the massive variations in the levels of support and of financial assistance provided to people requiring home care.
Particularly astonishing are the high contributory charges levied on service-users in the some council areas – the highes rate per hour was charged in Bridgend….
… £20.84 per hour
Which? Conversation’s FOI request had also revealed that the number of councils in England and Wales supporting those with needs assessed as ‘low’ or ‘moderate’ was now… 12