IN your article “Don’t Cut Our Lifeline” (Daily Echo, July 9), Southampton City Council leader Simon Letts talks about possible closures of Woodside Lodge Care Home for elderly people with dementia and day services for vulnerable adults with learning disabilities.
He says that having spoken to other councils which have made similar moves, “we have been told the outcome is quite good for the affected clients as they have more choice”.
What choice, Mr Letts? Can you explain? The people at the centre of these changes need continuity in care – familiar faces, familiar places!
It would be heartbreaking to move these vulnerable people to unfamiliar territory.
Stand up for your citizens, Mr Letts, tell the Government ‘no can do’!
These are people who can’t stand up for themselves – please don’t just shove them under the carpet.
MRS JANE WYATT, Southampton.
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