SIR - I write with reference to the original cuts in the subsidies towards the provision of freshly prepared cooked lunches for vulnerable older people, including those in sheltered housing, recommended by Worcestershire County Council's social services and which were due to start in January 2008, then suspended until June 2008.
Worcestershire Pensioners' Action Group (WPAG) welcomes the news that Festival Housing has committed to subsidising a meals service for their elderly and those people from Friends of the Elderly and Age Concern in Malvern and Droitwich, which will see freshly cooked meals for five days of a seven day week after June 2008.
Since these proposals represent some 60 per cent of the costs of the subsidies, WPAG asks Worcestershire County Council to continue funding the remaining two days since, of course, our vulnerable elderly have to eat seven-days a week.
This opportunity should be rolled out in other areas, particularly Rooftop Housing Association who, in hindsight, totally jumped the gun and unnecessarily issued redundancies to their kitchen staff in 2007.
BRIAN HUNT, Worcestershire Pensioners Action Group.
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