Category Archives: Carers

This social care crisis is hitting very close to home

March 11, 2017   Cancer, Carers, disability, Featured Article, Norfolk, Social care, ukcuts

Away from work, it’s adult social care I’ve been thinking about. In fact, that’s been at the forefront of my thinking for some time.

In 2015, my mum was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer – a disease which, within months, had claimed her life.

I’ll never have to worry about social care for my mum. But it’s another story for her mother – my grandma.

A couple of years before mum was diagnosed, she and my dad took the decision to bring my widowed grandma down from Middlesbrough to live with them.

Obviously my parents did not factor in that one of them might not be around to look after her. Some of the final months of my mum’s life were spent worrying about where her mother would live once she was gone.

When mum died, my father tried again to get grandma, who will be 100 in four years, into residential care. We were told she could go on the waiting list for a care home.

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Sale of three Norwich care homes nets more than £2m, but another to reopen to meet dementia need

March 8, 2017   Carers, dementia, Featured Article, Norfolk

Dan Grimmer

Mountfield care home in Millcroft, Norwich is to be refurbished and reopened.

A care home closed when its residents moved to a new £19m care village is to be refurbished and re-opened – to meet the need for places for people with dementia.

And the sale of three other former Norwich care homes has brought in £2m – which care bosses say is being used to improve care.

Four care homes run by Norfolk County Council’s arms-length company Norse Care, shut last year.

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Government announces £4m funding for special educational needs in Norfolk and Suffolk

March 4, 2017   autism, Carers, family, Featured Article, learning difficulties, Norfolk, special needs, Suffolk

 

Lauren Cope

The government has announced it will give £2.7m to Norfolk County Council and £1.3m to Suffolk County Council to improve special educational needs and disability (SEND) facilities.

Facilities for some of the most vulnerable children in Norfolk and Suffolk could be bolstered by a £4m investment in special needs education.

The government will, over three years, give Norfolk County Council £2.7m and Suffolk County Council £1.3m to increase school capacity and improve provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

It comes as part of a nationwide investment, worth £215m, to local councils, which can be spent on infrastructure and facilities.

Though councils will be free to invest the funding as they wish, they will be expected to consult with parents, carers and schools and put together a plan on how the money will be spent.

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