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A group of dementia carers in Southend are facing possible cuts to their support service at the Windermere Club. In response, the carers are holding a protest to raise concerns about the proposed redundancies. Andrea Levy attends the weekly support group with her husband who has dementia, and feels let down.

In a statement, Councillor James Moyies, the cabinet member for public health, adult social care and constitutional affairs, said:

“Due to the current financial challenges faced by the council and the fact that partners have withdrawn funding from this service, we need to review and re-examine the services we offer, to ensure that we can continue to pay for those public services which are statutory and essential. Unfortunately, the dementia community support service has been identified as a non-statutory service that we are proposing to stop so savings can be made. We are also working very hard to provide as much mitigation as possible by offering alternate routes for information and advice through the modernisation of our adult social care department and improved carer response".

Image credit: Tom Larson-Wright/´óÏó´«Ã½.

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