Monthly Archives: March 2014

Day care cuts actually cost money

March 24, 2014   Carers, health, ukcuts

By North Devon Journal  |  Posted: March 24, 2014

Think about the family carer!

 

 

Burrow House in Ilfracombe is one of the day and residential care centres facing closure

Journal reader Ruth Funnell from Great Torrington writes:

The proposal to cut day care is a tragedy for carers and those who attended these centres. It is likely to cost public money rather than save it as carers’ health suffers and those cared for have to move earlier to residential care.

 

By next year Devon County Council will have endured cuts of 60% in the budget since the coalition came to power. North Devon District Council will have seen its budget cut by a third.

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Call for changes to disabled work assessments

March 23, 2014   Carers, health, Multiple Sclerosis

MSPs believe five changes are needed to improve the assessment process.

 

 The DWP said there was strong evidence that working can be beneficial for many people who have a health condition

The assessment used to decide whether ill or disabled people can work should be made more “effective and humane”, a Holyrood committee has said.

The UK government said the criteria was developed in consultation with medical experts and disability groups.

It looks at an individual’s ability to work, “taking into account the modern workplace and developments in healthcare”.

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Caring covers egg on cycle spirit

March 22, 2014   Carers, charities

Yorkshire carers

Charitable knitters Louise Flint, Angela Lloyd-Roberts and Lucy Tiffany.

Charitable knitters Louise Flint, Angela Lloyd-Roberts and Lucy Tiffany.

Volunteers for the Carers’ Resource charity, which has offices in Harrogate, Ripon, Shipley and Skipton, have adopted a cycling theme to their annual fundraiser.

The group has teamed up with Cadbury to knit over 1,800 Easter chick covers modelled on the likes of Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome for the chocolate giant’s famous Creme Eggs.

The finished Yorkshire Tour souvenirs will be sold at the charity’s offices in the region.

Anne Wells, events and fundraising coordinator for the charity, said: “We hope, like Le Tour, the chicks capture the Yorkshire public’s imagination.”

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/caring-covers-egg-on-cycle-spirit-1-6514827

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