DEAR EDITOR -- Please can I express my thanks and gratitude to Bromsgrove Social Services Team for Elderly People.

During the past 12 months they have provided excellent care, counselling, advice, and most of all, support to myself and my father, helping us care for my mother who has Alzheimer's.

Thanks to their help my mother is now in a wonderful care home, Breme House in Bromsgrove, receiving all the care and attention required.

My advice to anyone, who needs help, don't be afraid to ask. With so many negative things said about Social Services, there are still some people who don't just do their job, they really care.

Anita Clarke

Beacon Hill

Rednal