Wehave a Petition waiting to appear in the Scottish Governments Patitopn Epetitions. it should be out shortly.
The Scottish Governments has answered alresdy our call for this but we will still carry it through.
Jimmy Deuchars
Grandparents Apart UK
Dear Jimmy,
Thank for you for supporting Grey Pride. We just wanted to let you know that the joint letter to David Cameron (pasted below) will be appearing in Saturday's Telegraph. All organisations will be listed online atTelegraph.co.uk
Thanks again, Hayley on behalf of Grey Pride.
SIR – Unprecedented demographic change and the demands it places on individuals and the state requires an immediate and integrated response from Government.
The Coalition is to be congratulated on the commission on care and support funding. But the recommended solutions address only one element of the enormous changes which our ageing society necessitates.
137,000 Grey Pride supporters propose that a minister should be given explicit responsibility for representing the needs of older people at Cabinet level. Steve Webb, the pensions minister, and Paul Burstow, the social care minister, are among a host of ministers who play crucial roles in elements of public policy relating to older people. Such roles should continue.
But there is no minister whose job title indicates it is also their role to consider the general needs of one of the largest and fastest-growing groups in the country.
The issues affecting older people include care, housing, planning, financial pressures, transport and discrimination. Only by looking at these issues in the round can we create a society which supports older people and recognises and benefits from their valuable contribution.
Hayley Warwick
Account Executive, Citizen Brando
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