Care home funding doesn't seem fair to me

SO sad to hear that The Retreat care home at Hooe is closing as, apparently, the income from residents was insufficient to meet the considerable costs of running the establishment.

- Bill Nicholson

I may be wrong but I am of the opinion that part of the problem may be that privately funded residents, who have a few pounds in the bank, pay more than those funded by the council, as they have less than circa £23,000 to