Warwickshire Race Equality Partnership (WREP http://www.wrep.org.uk ) held a BME consultation forum yesterday in the Sikh Cultural Community Centre, Queensway. With a 23% cut to the Police and 27% cut to library services, the ‘consultation’ is all about coping with cuts.
As the council is stopping funding of day care centres for the elderly, community groups will probably have to close. There was concern that this would disproportionately disadvantage minority ethnic groups: many in these communities rely on the centres for advice.
More positively, it was great to hear about the ‘virtual ward’ which manages to keep high risk people out of hospital.
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