Category Archives: Carers

Britain’s wealthiest landowner cares for the wounded soldiers

January 2, 2012   Carers

DUKE DONATES £6.25M ESTATE AS CARE CENTRE FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS

 

Britain’s wealthiest landowner has converted a country estate into a centre for wounded soldiers

 

By Kate Cunningham

 

BRITAIN’S wealthiest landowner has bought a country estate to convert into a £300million centre for wounded soldiers.

 

The Duke of Westminster intends to donate the 354-acre Nottinghamshire estate of Stanford Hall, near Loughborough.

It has 35 bedrooms, a theatre and a huge outdoor swimming pool and has previously changed hands for £6.25million.

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£150m home care boost for elderly patients

January 2, 2012   Carers, Older care

£150m home care boost for elderly patients

 The government has already set aside £648m for primary care trusts to support social care services

Ministers have allocated an extra £150m for patients to get care at home after warnings that local authority cuts were creating a “crisis” in social care.

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Message from a carer to Staffordshire County Council re respite

January 2, 2012   Carers, ukcuts

Complex situation for respite carers

Monday, January 02, 2012

 

IN NOVEMBER I received a letter from the social services department inviting me to a meeting, to offer my opinion as a parent/carer into the plans to offload respite care for young adults with a learning disability into the private sector.

The meeting would take place on an industrial estate and I would be granted a 20 minute slot. As one who does not frequent industrial estates I had to ring to find out where it was.

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