Category Archives: disability

Nottinghamshire county council to roll out telecare service

October 5, 2011   Carers, disability, Older care

Carers will receive alerts triggered by telecare users to a portable pager.

Local authority signs deal to deliver services to older and disabled people across the county

Nottinghamshire county council is to roll out telecare technology to provide support for older and disabled people in a deal arranged within a Buying Solutions framework.

The technology will link a range of sensors in a person’s home to a 24 hour monitoring centre. The sensors will include:

• Home safety sensors for smoke, carbon monoxide, flood and heat alarms.

• Property exit sensors, which can alert the monitoring centre if a person with dementia wanders away from their home at an inappropriate time.

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Do you want to learn how to use the internet?

October 5, 2011   Carers, disability, internet, Norfolk
Free IT lessons in Norwich
Please note Baseline is going to be running two Go-On IT Session’s every Friday 1st session from 3-4pm and second session from 4-5pm the programe will be running from Friday the 7th October through to early March 2012. The sessions are aimed at beginners and cover all the basics from turning on a computer and learning how to use a mouse to getting online and setting up an email address.
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Newport city council making better use of IT for social care

October 3, 2011   Carers, disability, Older care

Newport council plans cost-cutting social care reforms

South Wales council hopes to shave £11m off its social care bill through a programme of better contracting and use of I

Newport city council has launched a three year programme to reform its adult and children‘s social services and save nearly £11m.

Stewart Greenwell, director of social services at Newport, told Guardian Social Care Network that the programme is as much about modernising and improving services as saving money.

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