{"id":10027,"date":"2016-09-27T13:53:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T12:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10027"},"modified":"2016-09-27T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T12:58:56","slug":"under-a-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10027","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Under a shadow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite health visitor Joyce Still warned the Labour Party Conference at a health debate today (September 27) about the impact that government austerity cuts have had on social care and urged the party to continue in its fight against these cuts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHealth visitors like myself make a holistic assessment of health needs, endeavouring to deliver a first class service,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she explained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut despite providing a much needed preventative service the government has made a \u00c2\u0141200m in- year cut and further deep cuts in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt puts the future of our health visiting service under an enormous shadow,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Still noted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She pointed to what has already happened to social care which has \u00e2\u20ac\u015bexperienced service cuts with devastating consequences.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She told the story of a friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elderly relative, who despite advanced age, chronic health problems and dementia, government cuts have meant their care package has been seriously cut back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt has met an end to independence and they will no longer be able to stay in their own home,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Still noted. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis has caused considerable distress.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Local councillors and MPs were then lobbied to try and get a proper care package.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut when such severe cuts are being made it becomes about the budget bottom line &#8212; not the person,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she argued.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMy concern is that in this circumstance it becomes more about who knows how to effectively lobby &#8212; not social care or health needs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI am proud that we are a party that stands for ending austerity and for the ending these devastating cuts.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Joyce Still\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s full speech in the video below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDi8BIL2w1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite health visitor Joyce Still warned the Labour Party Conference at a health debate today (September 27) about the impact that government austerity cuts have had on social care and urged the party to continue in its fight against these cuts. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bHealth visitors like myself make a holistic assessment of health needs, endeavouring to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[77,464],"wps_subtitle":"Unite's Joyce Still speaks against social care cuts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10029,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions\/10029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}