Monthly Archives: May 2012

£2m service to aid dementia sufferers

May 12, 2012   Carers, dementia

DEMENTIA sufferers and their families are to get help from a new support service being launched in South Tyneside

By VERITY WARD
Published on Saturday 12 May 2012 07:20

 

The new initiative, called the Memory Protection Service, aims to provide access to information, support, early diagnosis, treatment and care for people with the condition along with their families and carers.

The service, which will cost £2m a year to run, is being paid for by NHS South of Tyne and Wear and run by Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, which specialises in mental health and disability care.

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Son fears being trapped in 24-hr care for mum after service cuts

May 11, 2012   Carers, ukcuts

CUTS FEARS … Alan Blackett caring for his mother Edna.

Published on Friday 11 May 2012 17:00

A DEVOTED carer to his disabled mother fears he will be left ‘high and dry’ after he learned vital support was being withdrawn.

Alan Blackett, 35, looks after mum Edna, 68, 24 hours a day.

She suffers from chronic breathing problems, diabetes and a host of other physical problems which require full-time care.

Mr Blackett, of Redwell Lane, Marsden, said he is more than willing to help and ‘does it for the love’.

But now the only support he gets is about to be withdrawn.

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Councils are facing a very tough decision

May 11, 2012   Carers, disability, ukcuts

Councils are facing  very tough decisions

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11 May, 2012

Local government insiders have described the government’s welfare reforms as a “time bomb” for local government, and in recent weeks you may have heard a whispered countdown.

There was news that London councils were preparing to move people on their housing lists to houses many miles away because the cap on housing benefit will be insufficient to meet the rent demands of private sector landlords.

The Department for Work & Pensions also published details of what it wants from councils wishing to pilot face-to-face support work for benefit claimants moving to the new Universal Credit, including a challenging timetable and ducking the question of how or whether local government would be involved or funded in the long term.

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