Calling Glasgow!

So the big social care case involving Glasgow City Council (GCC) and Scotland's Court of Session ended in something of a score draw.

The court decided that GCC had failed to carry out an adequate equality impact assessment, a poor show for Scotland's largest SNP/Green led council.

Just before the hearing got underway Glasgow applied new 'rules' and reduced the increase from over 50% to around 6%, but only in this individual case which means charges that were going to rise by £1,500 (from £3,000 to over £4,500) will now increase by around £180.

Problem is there are lots of disabled Glaswegians who will not have understood how unfair these planned changes were, of their ability to ask for a reassessment, or been represented by a organisation like Govan Law centre.

In the worst case scenario disabled people in Glasgow may have been frightened into giving up their support services altogether faced with such a big increase in charges - no one seems able to put a figure on this group as yet. 

So the challenge now is to encourage Glaswegians affected by the City Council's charging policy to ask for a financial review - because an eye watering increase in charges of over 50% in a single year is utterly shameful and indefensible.

Read more in this article by Mike Dailly from Govan Law Centre in the Glasgow Times.

 

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