County council "kicking the vulnerable"
Opposition councillors criticised the authority's plans to sell off all 13 residential care homes, shut day care centres, hike the cost of meals for elderly people and start charging for day care services.
Liberal Democrat councillor Steve Carr told a full council meeting that it was a "depressing day for Notts County Council".
Labour leader Councillor Alan Rhodes accused the ruling Tories of "kicking the vulnerable".
Outside during protests, Mike Scott, Unison's joint branch secretary at the county council, said: "It is the ones who have the greatest need that suffer the most. People are just horrified."
Ravi Subramanian, Unison's regional head of local government, said it was "disgusting" that no Conservatives attended the demonstration to speak to council staff.
The previous Labour administration had planned to invest £19m in Extra Care villages, but also to shut four residential care homes.
Defending the new plans to sell care homes, Councillor Mel Shepherd, cabinet member for adult social care and health, said the decision avoided them being shut.
He said after the council meeting that the authority was looking to create 160 Extra Care places at five new centres which would be run privately.
Labour were in turn accused of neglecting older people while in power because some care homes had fallen into disrepair.
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