KENT LETS DOWN AGEING RESIDENTSConservative-run Kent County Council has finally been forced to produce a strategy for older residents of the County, three years after the Government published its national strategy. Today the Council hosted a seminar on the subject at County Hall in Maidstone.Mike Eddy, Labour Shadow Leader of KCC, says: "This is typical of Kent County Council. It huffs and puffs about caring for older residents but does nothing and then produces a draft strategy when the Audit Commission is about to produce research showing how local councils have failed to plan for our ageing populations."The Labour Government published its strategy, Opportunity Age - opportunity and security throughout life, in March 2005. Active Ageing - KCC's Strategy for Later Life was published on 1 May 2008.Mark Fittock, Labour Shadow Cabinet Member for Health, says: "The Conservatives seem to have been totally unaware until now of what is really going on in planning for an ageing population. While the Labour Government has been pushing this forward through its Opportunity Age Strategy, Kent’s Tories have been hiking up home care charges."Mike Eddy adds: "I was pleased to see Kent County Council taking advice at today's meeting from leading figures in the field but as ever they have used these people to cover the inadequacies of the current Conservative administration."
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