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ASDA Carers Surgeries & Carers Cafes
ASDA Carers Surgeries – Bury Marketside
Crossroads Care Bury, working in conjunction with the Carers Centre and other organisations that support Carers in Bury, have launched a new initiative to help Carers self identify and to get information to support them in their role.
Carers Surgeries are being held in the three ASDA stores in the area:
Radcliffe Riverside, Bury Pilsworth and Bury Marketside
The session will run from 10:00am to 12:00 noon on the following dates
Cuts in services leave dementia victims in fear
Dementia victims face crime wave on doorstep
A LOOMING £1bn cash crisis could leave dementia sufferers at greater threat from rogue traders who are exploiting cutbacks in social services to target some of the most vulnerable members of society.
Trading standards officers in Yorkshire have warned the rising numbers of pensioners who are suffering from mental illness are being placed at increased risk as care professionals are no longer available to ward off the advances of doorstep criminals.
The Alzheimer’s Society claims a £1bn funding gap is looming in social care nationally, as local authorities are forced to strip back resources to cope with the Government’s austerity measures. North Yorkshire County Council alone is faced with making savings of more than £90m across all its departments, and finance directors have warned front-line services including social care will be hit.
Many dementia sufferers will be left with a reduced level of care in their own homes, prompting fears they will be targeted by organised gangs of criminals who are travelling to the region to prey on the elderly.
Parents and carers write to Queen over Birmingham skills centre closure threat
Outcry over city council funding threat to Forward 4 Work in Inkerman Street, Nechells
Angry parents and carers have written to the Queen in a desperate battle to save a Birmingham skills centre for adults with learning difficulties that faces the council axe.
Staff at Forward 4 Work in Inkerman Street, Nechells , have already been offered voluntary redundancy as the authority continues to slash costs across the city.
The centre, opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1981, provides vital training to help people with conditions including autism and Down syndrome into work.
