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It’s parents and carers’ turn to relax
PARENTS of children with special needs can now relax in a revamped space.
Charity Hop, Skip and Jump has converted one of its outbuildings at Seven Springs into a relaxation area for parents and carers.
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REVAMP: Jeanette Bates, Hop Skip and Jump funding manager, Marc Johnson, centre supervisor, Richard Rawlings, Quays centre manager, Rebecca Jeal, Quays marketing assistant and charity and community co-ordinator with after school club users Alex Jaya and Reece
The charity will be offering holistic therapies, reflexology, head and body massage to mums, dads and carers. The revamp was carried out by staff at Gloucester Quays with new furniture donated by Next.
Emma Minett, care supervisor, said: “The new space offers parents who drop their children off the chance to relax and get respite care.
“We provide flexible and immediate care so parents can drop their children off at any point, but the centre so far has been geared up for the children and so we wanted to provide something for the parents.
“It will provide a space where they can speak to each other and have a coffee.”
The charity hosted a party on Wednesday to open the space.
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Norfolk minister: I’m committed to funding elderly care
Top Priority
by JOSEPH WATTS, Political editor Saturday, September 22, 2012
6:30 AM
Health minister and Norfolk MP Norman Lamb was left in a difficult position yesterday when his predecessor accused the Treasury of blocking reforms to the funding of elderly care.
The government is currently considering how it and individuals should pay for the burgeoning cost of care for the elderly in the future.
They save the NHS thousands of pounds each year, but unpaid carers say they are being treated like ‘second-class citizens’
“All carers, no matter how distressed, are treated sensitively, with empathy and respect”.
Published: 21 September, 2012
by PETER GRUNER
THE borough’s heroic army of unpaid carers is suffering massive levels of stress and distress because of Islington Council’s red tape, bureaucracy and lack of co-ordination, according to a devastating report to the Town Hall this week.
Harrowing evidence of carers, many of them elderly and struggling single-handedly to cope with disabled or mentally ill dependents, is included in a shocking 30-page review of services by Islington Council’s health scrutiny committee.
The carers accused council staff of being “insensitive” and often “brusque, rude and hostile”.
