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How little do they value ‘carers’?
Abolition of social care duties ‘would be illegal’
Vern Pitt
Friday 11 March 2011 11:29
Abolishing councils’ legal duties to provide social care would breach human rights law, a lawyer has warned after the government floated the idea.
Off to the pigeon loft after completing the census form!
Mention how you care on census
I DON’T see myself falling particularly into the Luddite envelope – I happily embrace new technologies and am not fighting the great fight for vinyl over mp3 file. Emails – no problem. Texting – all good (LOL).
But one thing I do miss is the actual hand written and posted, falling onto your doormat-type letter. Lord Byron is alleged to have said, “Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company”, and I think he had a point.
Go ON Adopt a Care Home
Go ON Adopt a Care Home
March 8, 2011
With 6 million older people currently offline and around 450,000 care home residents in the UK, Go ON Adopt a Care Home has just launched to utilise the brilliant skills of young Digital Champions.
The inspiration of Lilla Harris, former nurse and care home manager and founder of the award winning finerday.com, Go ON Adopt is encouraging every school in the UK to “adopt” a local care home or sheltered housing scheme, to help engage residents in the wonderful world of the web. For Lilla, it’s the logical next step after Finerday, which she developed after witnessing the dwindling number of letters and photos older people received. She realised that “the world was moving online and leaving older people more and more isolated.”
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