Category Archives: Carers
£50,000 boost for student carers
(UKPA) 2 hours ago
Funding of £50,000 is being made available to support college students who have responsibility as carers.
Scotland’s Colleges, the body which represents and promotes the college sector, will receive the money from the Scottish Government to identify and help carers studying further education courses in 2012/13.
Unison warns of care funding crisis
Day centre closures could lead to a crisis in elderly care, claims Unison
The Government has been warned of a “crisis” in care for the elderly because of widespread closures and cuts hitting day centres.
Unison said ministers should ensure that local councils are given the funding they need to keep day care centres running. Closing them was described as a “false economy” because they provide much-needed respite for carers, as well as monitoring and improving the physical and mental health of users.
Fury at welfare cuts
The group is calling on the Government to exempt families with disabled children from planned cuts
A MUM whose son has autism and epilepsy is backing a campaign urging the Government not to make further cuts to support for families with disabled children.
Annie Bannister, of Great Glen, says caring for her 12-year-old son Thomas is increasingly expensive and that Government cutbacks in recent years are putting families like theirs under mounting pressure.
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