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Young carers project saved by Children in Need

Slough young carers scheme future secure

 

Young carers in Berkshire have described how a support project has helped them cope with looking after their loved ones.

Slough Crossroads opens its doors for two hours each week, offering young people a much-needed break.

The service is open to children as young as four and offers advice and support throughout the week as well as weekly recreational activities.

£40m budget cuts- Unpaid family carers must be protected

Tees and Hartlepool Trust faces ‘huge’ £40m budget cuts

 The Trust will go through a public consultation period to discuss possible cuts

Unions claim services will be hit and jobs lost after health bosses on Teesside announced “huge” budget cuts of £40m over the next three years.

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust is making £16m of cuts this year, followed by £14m in 2012/13 and £10m in 2013/14.

A crisis in social care funding

Elderly struggling to cope with social care cuts

Annual budgets allocated to help the over-65s have fallen by £1.3bn since 2010, a cut of nearly a fifth

The chancellor, George Osborne, promised to provide an extra £2bn for councils to spend on help for older people. Photograph: Corbis

A crisis in social care funding since the coalition government came to power has left many elderly people in