Press release: Sense comments on the Dilnot report
04 July 2011
Responding to the Dilnot report published today, Sue Brown, Head of Public Policy at the national deafblind charity Sense, said:
“Sense welcomes the Dilnot report, and in particular the key finding that additional public funding for adult social care is urgently required, but we are concerned that the media focus is only on older people which obscures some critical aspects.
"We believe the report clearly shows that not only can the Government afford to support disabled people of all ages, but crucially as a society we can’t afford not to.
"It is now up to the Government to fund adult social care so that it gives disabled people of all ages quality of life. For deafblind people social care means communication and mobility support, not just personal care.”
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