Category Archives: Carers

Care in the Community has been a failure for the mentally sick!

October 31, 2011   Carers, mental health, ukcuts

Care in the community is ‘a £100bn failure’: Mentally ill patients have been neglected for decades, says Iain Duncan Smith think-tank

By Jason Groves

Report: The Centre for Social Justice, founded by Iain Duncan Smith, said the cost of dealing with mental health was £6bn a year

The controversial ‘care in the community’ approach to treating the mentally ill has been a £100billion failure, a report warns today.

The study by the respected Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) suggests that many mental health patients have been ‘neglected’ for decades because the policy of closing down asylums was not accompanied by an increase in local care.

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Gift boxes wanted to give Carers for Christmas

October 30, 2011   Carers, disability, mental health, ukcuts, young carers

Foodbank plea for Christmas gift boxes

2:00pm Sunday 30th October 2011

 

AN ANDOVER charity is asking residents to help make Christmas special for local children.

Last year Andover Foodbank donated more than 400 gift boxes to children in the community identified by care workers from agencies and organisations who work in partnership with the charity.

Some of the children are in families or with carers who cannot afford to buy gifts at Christmas. Others are living in chaotic situations where children are simply not thought about.

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Wymondham hairdresser turns blue for charity climb

October 29, 2011   Cancer, Carers

 

Money raised by the challenge will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support
which helps people living with cancer.

By STEPHANIE BROOKS Saturday, October 29, 2011
8.00 AM

A Wymondham hairdresser gave customers a fright yesterday as she donned a ghoulish Halloween costume in a bid to raise sponsorship for a challenging mountain climb.

Kirsty Jones-Hanford, 21, manager at Cutting Edge hair salon, hoped her surprise dressing-up efforts would help her inch closer towards a £4,300 fundraising target she needs to hit before embarking on a trip to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro next September – the highest peak in Africa standing at 5,895m (19,341ft) above sea level.

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