Spend money on OAPs not scooters for fat prisoners
WHAT kind of society are we living in where we have a social care crisis that through cash shortages is forced to deny vital help to the elderly, the sick and infirm yet fritters away cash on needless causes (“Taxes ‘must rise’ to end social care crisis”, August 6)?
Nottingham GP Dr Ian Campbell claims the present crisis in social care is the worst he has experienced in his 30 years with the NHS.
On the other hand we see mobility scooters costing up to £8,000 each being supplied to obese sex offenders and violent criminals in a 420-capacity open prison in Lincolnshire, with an insider claiming “this is the only option to keep them mobile” (“Obese prisoners given mobility scooters at ‘holiday camp’ jail”, August 6).
The truth is there should be no social care crisis because the money is there but is being spent on entirely the wrong things, as North Sea Camp in Lincolnshire proves. Jean Norfolk, Knottingley, W Yorks