Category Archives: mental health

TV gardener launches mental health scheme

April 3, 2011   mental health

TV gardener launches mental health scheme

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A national mental health initiative is being launched at Sugar Lane Allotments to promote how good gardening is for people with mental health. It is being launched by TV gardening guru Christine Walkden with Lorraine Shaw and Jean Richardson

Published on Sunday 3 April 2011 09:00

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A NATIONAL campaign to improve mental health through gardening was launched by a TV horticulture expert at an allotment site in Portobello this week.

 

Christine Walkden, from BBC’s The One Show, visited Sugar Lane allotments on Wednesday to meet carers from the Wakefield Growing Together group.

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This group for young people must not be shut

April 1, 2011   mental health

Cuts will lead to more mental health issues

7:00am Friday 1st April 2011

 

SHUTTING a support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered young people could lead to an increase in mental health problems and even suicide, a youth worker has warned.

Space Youth Project started in Bournemouth nearly eight years ago and has since expanded across Dorset.

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Cuts would be “a bitter pill to swallow”

March 31, 2011   family, mental health, young carers

Carers fear adult social care ‘will not be fit for purpose’ after £9.2m cuts
CARERS have expressed major concerns over cost-cutting which could see support slashed for 3,363 of the county’s disabled adults.

Lincolnshire County Council currently assesses 10,902 individuals using a four-tier system, with help provided for those with “critical”, “substantial” and “moderate” needs.

But as part of efforts to save more than £9.2 million from the £140 million adult social care budget, the authority wants to withdraw assistance for those in the “moderate” band.

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