article_snippet.sent: For the past two years Mrs Clark has used Mrs Clark £50,000 savings to pay towards a £960-a-week live-in carer, while Brent Council contributed £350 a week.
article_snippet.sent: But as Mrs Clark money runs out, Brent Council is refusing to increase Brent Council funding and Mrs Clark may have to go into a care home instead.
article_snippet.sent: We have enough money to pay for around three more months of care
article_snippet.sent: We are not looking for a lot of money just for Brent Council to do the right thing.
article_snippet.sent: However … the care package that Mrs Clark is choosing is not affordable to council taxpayers given the constraints of local government funding and the need to be consistent for the 2,900 people we support.
article_snippet.sent: Brent Council said Mrs Clark needs can be met in a care home for £451 a week.
article_snippet.sent: Alternatively, Mrs Clark could choose to receive the same weekly sum and stay at home, but would have to pay the extra amount necessary for a carer.
article_snippet.sent: Brent Council said: ‘We want to find a solution which meets his eligible social care needs, provides value for money for the taxpayer, but also reflects the choices his has made and the additional cost this creates.
article_snippet.sent: ’ his added that Brent Council had offered ‘a deferred payment which means his doesn’t need to sell his house to pay for his care’.
highlights_snippet.sent: Great-grandfather Robert Clark has spent £50,000 life savings on a live-in carer over last two years .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Brent Council says Brent Council cannot afford the care package the veteran wants .
  