i am realy sickened by the treatment of all elderly people in council homes. i have previously had reletives in council homes in my area and have been injured during their time in the home . It is never taken into account the damage that has been done to the older generation due to staying in the council care homes . they should not get treated badly because most elderly people now adays have been involved in numourous wars and most have done active service for their country and never get reconised for it.

Hi John - it's a difficult subject. But things have got alot better. As a kid I remember going round to my Nans and she couldn't afford to put the heating on. When Labour introduced the fuel payments she could - this has saved loads of lives. People forget what it use to be like!

The stigma attached to ‘Young’ Mothers I’m a mother to a six month old boy, I am twenty years of age and don’t agree with the way younger women who decide to have children are treated or seen in society. I’m an intelligent woman who has a good attitude towards life. I don’t expect a living and have been working since a month after my sixteenth birthday. I was in a stable relationship and my partner and we decided we were ready for a child. I couldn’t want or need anything more than my beautiful son but that doesn’t make him a hindrance on my life, he’s improved my quality of life. I will be going back to work part time when my additional maternity leave finishes whilst progressing onto my HND top up course to then finish my degree in business and management. I’m not alone whilst being this successful in life and feel that the OLDER generation need to realise that younger women are more than capable of excelling in their lives and shouldn’t be judged wrongly when doing so. A happy and successful YOUNG mother, Charlotte Quinn