SIR: I am asking for any help from any of your readers in the legal profession, who can give us advice of the proposed closure of Stocks Park House in Horwich. We have no funding to pursue the closure through the courts, but we are aware of the recent ruling in London when the local authority changed the location of addresses of residents for their own political ends. This is what Bolton Social Services have done, we feel, with the residents of Stocks Park House and Lever Edge Lane Home. The elderly people's home address is the local authority home and when Social Services took out the beds and fittings from these homes after spending £130,000 on plans for conversion, they have in our eyes engineered a situation whereby the two homes have the smallest number of residents, and were in the 1996 Community Care Handbook for the Bolton Area, outlined as being ideal for conversion to care centres, not just for the present generation of needy, but for you and me and our families in years to come. We feel that if this closure goes ahead this will be a legal issue and ask for this help from the families of Bolton's legal professionals.

This is not just about the elderly of today, but about the loss of a service that if lost cannot be replaced by private homes working to make a profit.

David Greenfield

Ainsworth Avenue, Horwich

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