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People with learning difficulties and their carers not welcome at Butlins
Butlin’s ought to think again
Published on Thursday 7 July 2011 08:27
www.thestar.co.uk
BUTLIN’S should find some way to open their doors to a party of Sheffield people with learning disabilities, and their carers, who have been told they are not welcome at their Skegness resort.
The official reason is that the holiday company does not welcome large groups of adults as they intimidate family parties at their camps. But there is surely a difference between the Sheffield party, which includes a 59-year-old Down’s Syndrome sufferer, and a party of hell-raisers on a stag night.
Respite care support cut for families in parts of Wales
Respite care support cut for families in parts of Wales
Carers need respite more than anything else! What an awful thing to do to them.
By Hywel Griffith BBC Wales health correspondent
Suzanne Hayes says respite care for stepson John Morrison is ‘light at the end of a tunnel’
The Switchover Help Scheme can help you make the switch to digital TV.
The Switchover Help Scheme can help you make the switch to digital TV.
We can help you convert your TV to digital if you:
- are aged 75 or over; or
- get or could get Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance,
Constant Attendance Allowance or mobility supplement; or - have lived in a care home for six months or more; or
- are registered blind or partially sighted..
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