HEALTH

Coronavirus

I will push for a serious effort to learn lessons from this crisis. See my 'coronavirus' blog post where I've written about this in more detail.

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Elderly and social care

Derbyshire County Council administers publicly funded social care, both residential and in-home, which we partly pay for through council tax.

The Green Party policy opposes the increasing privatisation of care services and wants to provide more local places, focused on care which caters to individual needs. There are limited places available locally; for example people in Sudbury have been placed in Matlock, 26 miles away.

As councillor, I will do what I can to bring funded residential places and more funding for in-home assistance into this division.