Category Archives: Carers

Former MP does not believe that some have to chose between eat and heat

Edwina Currie speaking about the choice between heating and food

 

Former MP Edwina Currie tells listeners who claim to have to choose between food and heating that she doesn’t believe anyone in the UK is too poor to eat.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00l5xsb

Free flu jabs for carers

Free flu jabs for ‘at risk’ groups in NHS Forth Valley

Published on Monday 17 October 2011 09:02

AT RISK people in Bo’ness, Blackness and Whitecross are urged to get their annual free flu jab, that this year includes the swine flu strain.

Last flu season, NHS Forth Valley achieved Scotland’s highest uptake of over-65s.

Scotland Announces Almost A Million Pounds To Support Short Breaks For Carers

The funding will support young carers and adult carers

Source: eGov monitor -A Policy Dialogue Platform
Published Monday, 17 October, 2011 – 09:36


The Scottish government has allocated £954,000 to fund short breaks for 3,500 young and adult carers across Scotland. Fifty-eight organisations have been offered a share of almost £954,000 for a variety of short breaks projects. This includes 14 groups who help carers purchase their own breaks.

The funding will support young carers and adult carers who care for disabled children, people with dementia, mental health problems and other long-term conditions, substance misuse problems, adults with learning disabilities and adults with physical disabilities.