On Tuesday 5th September 2006 the BBC reported Care home closure plans shelved
Dunmuir Park is a care home for adults with learning disabilities; it is owned and managed by Dumfries and Galloway Council. The story of this council's machinations to close the home will be familiar to everybody with an interest in saving St Drostan's. Almost step by step Dumfries and Galloway followed the same course as followed by Aberdeenshire Council: the decision to close the home was taken without consultation; it is likely that the decision was taken ultra vires; and subsequent consultation was contemptuously perfunctory. A major difference between the campaign in Dumfries and Galloway and the campaign to save St Drostan's is the degree of support campaigners received from local councillors.
The details of the campaign to save Dunmuir Park are available on the campaign website.
Wrexham Council has voted not to take any more residents into either of its remaining Care Homes, Llys Madoc, and Nant Silyn, but it will continue to provide care for the existing residents, though not necessarily in the homes they currently occupy. The authority wants to spend £8 million on building extra-care housing starting in 2008.
Local protesters condemn the decision to close the homes raising all of the points that we have raised in this website since it opened in June 2006.
Is it a coincidence that Wrexham Council is a Liberal Democrat administration?
More details can be found at Care home
closure move
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have betrayed the elderly.