Category Archives: Carers

There is no minimum standard of training for healthcare assistants before they can work unsupervised

July 10, 2013   Carers, Social care

0 July 2013 Last updated at 10:45

 

Healthcare assistants ‘should get standard training’

By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online

 Healthcare assistants provide vital support

There is no minimum standard of training for healthcare assistants before they can work unsupervised, an independent report has found.

Workers should get at least two weeks’ training to prepare them for providing basic care in hospitals, care homes and at home in England, its author said.

Journalist Camilla Cavendish also said some staff were only given a training DVD to watch before starting work.

The review was set up in the wake of the Stafford Hospital scandal

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Prince’s Trust teenagers add colour to east Norfolk care home garden

July 9, 2013   Carers, Norfolk, Older care

 

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 01:04 PM

Teenagers have flexed their green fingers to make life more enjoyable for residents of an east Norfolk care home.

Students from Great Yarmouth High School’s Prince’s Trust group rallied together to spruce up the garden of Clere House care home in Pippin Close, Ormesby, near Yarmouth.

Ten teenagers took part in the community gardening project, part of their course.

Helen Hyde, the school’s Prince’s Trust coordinator, said: “The pupils worked hard sanding down existing wooden planters and giving them a fresh coat of preservative with the residents watching over the action.

“They then filled the planters with fresh compost and added a variety of colourful plants.”

The project came about after Ms Hyde went to the care home to discuss a different project, but during the visit noticed that the gardens lacked some colour.

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‘Time bank’ launched in Clitheroe to help full-time carers

July 9, 2013   Carers, Older care

 

9:06am Tuesday 9th July 2013 in News  By Jon Robinson, Reporter

A RIBBLE Valley charity has launched a ‘time bank’ scheme aimed at lending a helping hand to carers.

Cross Roads Care, based in Clitheroe, hopes the project will attract more volunteers to do odd jobs for people who look after someone else full-time.

In return for doing tasks such as walk-ing carers’ dogs, or doing their gard-ening or ironing, their hours would be ‘banked’ and another volunteer, or a carer, would do something for them in return.

Ann Roberts, a former nurse who is a trustee at the charity, in Salthill Road, said: “I gave up my job to look after my mum when she had a stroke. Cross Roads Care came to help me out and allowed my mum to stay at home until she was 90.

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