Friends of Brookdale: more meetings and the fight
continues!
February 2015 update
Our Friends of Brookdale (FOB) campaign
group has recently met with various councillors regarding the disgraceful and
unacceptable threat of Sefton Council to close Ainsdale’s Brookdale Resource Centre.
FOB met Labour Cllrs Paul Cummins and Liz Savage
on Tuesday 10 February 2014.
Paul Cummins is the
Cabinet Member responsible for the current consultation on Brookdale. Liz Savage
expressed additional views on Brookdale on this following link:
The argument in favour
of retaining the Brookdale is overwhelming and very compelling. Support for our campaign has astonished
everyone in its magnitude and exhibited the great public feeling against any
ridiculous and ill-considered council plans to close the facility. We presented
these sincere views passionately yet logically to councillors. Our opinions are based on Brookdale being
much needed, highly respected and the ‘only’ specialist dementia/Alzheimer’s
centre in the region.
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Friends of Brookdale had also met with Ainsdale’s
Libdem Cllr Haydn Preece on 6
February 2014. Cllr Preece is supportive and wholly opposed to closure!
Why is Ainsdale’s Brookdale Centre so
important?
It is a fundamental service for
elderly people with Dementia/Alzheimer's and must stay open. This centre is ideally
situated in Ainsdale, Southport. It is the only Dementia specialist care centre
in a catchment area of approximately 150,000 people. The council proposes to
close it and move everybody across to other centre miles away. This unit with
specialist trained staff provides a brilliant day care service for older people
with Alzheimer's and Dementia and deals with cases from early onset to the
later stages of the illness. It provides a critical life-line for carers giving
them the required respite whilst being assured of the safety, health and
well-being of their loved ones at the centre.
The centre is geographically
perfectly placed in the middle of the areas it serves.
Questionable council spin!
Any abrupt council claims that the
centre has seen low attendance figures are highly misleading. We have recently
discovered that many specialist dementia/Alzheimer’s groups/individuals in the
region have never even ‘heard’ of the Brookdale. So naturally people cannot
attend a centre that they are unaware of! Council spin must be seriously challenged
in this instance as it just fails to cut the mustard!
Please
sign our ongoing petition:
See also, ‘WW2 Hero
‘dismissed’ by thoughtless Sefton Council closure plans at Brookdale Centre’
Friends
of Brookdale on Facebook
Widespread media coverage for our campaign
Southport
Visiter Coverage
OTS
News
Qlocal
International
coverage
The
Champion newspaper also mentioned the Brookdale fight.
The Brookdale fight goes on!
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