Category Archives: mental health
Care in the Community has been a failure for the mentally sick!
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
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.
Gift boxes wanted to give Carers for Christmas
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.
Reading’s carers must not be forgotten
We must keep fighting to support Reading’s Carers
Last night the Council agreed two important motions calling for justice and action to support two vulnerable groups in our community: Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender people and Reading Gurkhas and their families.
I was delighted to support both.
In the same meeting I spoke up for another group of unsung heroes: carers.
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