Category Archives: learning difficulties
Free holidays for carers in Northamptonshire
Free Holidays For Northants Carers
| Author: Lara Davis | Published: 28th March 2011 10:02 |
Two luxury leisure lodges at Carlton Meres Country Park in Suffolk are now available free for holidays to carers in Northamptonshire thanks to a partnership between Northamptonshire Carers, NHS Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire County Council and Suffolk-based Lifestyle Living.
Cuts: “I DON’T want to go back to the olden days – they were really bad.”
CUTS: Vulnerable adults fear cutbacks to care funding
MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD: An action group has been set up by adults with learning difficulties to fight the proposed government cuts to the Supporting People Programme. Picture: Abby Ruston
Those are the words of Gary Stark, 33, of Grimsby, who suffers with learning difficulties.
He is part of an action group of adults with similar problems, who fear cuts to their funding could mean a return to the now redundant long-stay hospitals.
VALUABLE service for families with disabled children has been thrown a lifeline thanks to a government grant.
Parents of disabled are thrown a lifeline
Calderdale parents and carers council gets cash.
Published on Sun Mar 06 12:00:26 GMT 2011
A VALUABLE service for families with disabled children has been thrown a lifeline thanks to a government grant.
Calderdale Parents’ and Carers’ Council, based at Hanson Lane Enterprise Centre, Halifax, has been awarded £21,640 from the Department of Health’s Financial Assistance Fund, which supports charities who would not otherwise have survived to the end of the financial year.
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