Category Archives: Older care

Keep Safe Card

April 17, 2011   autism, Carers, dementia, disability, learning difficulties, Older care

Northamptonshire Police – Keep Safe Card

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The Keep Safe card is a new initiative developed jointly by the Learning Disability Partnership Board, Mencap and Northamptonshire Police. The card is available to anyone in Northamptonshire with a learning disability.

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Reading: Cuts to council care support agreed

April 7, 2011   Alzheimer’s, Carers, disability, Older care

Cuts to council care support agreed

By Linda Fort
April 07, 2011

Social workers in Reading will begin the task of reassessing elderly and disabled people receiving care following a decision by councillors on Tuesday last week.

People with moderate needs currently receiving care will be reassessed and if their needs have not increased to critical or substantial levels they will lose their support from the council.

The full council also agreed a new charging policy for day centres which will see £4.90 a day charges to some users dropped altogether while others could see that charge go up to £43.

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What is the future for Care Homes?

April 6, 2011   family, Older care

What’s the future of care homes?
Vern Pitt
Wednesday 06 April 2011 10:57

Care homes are struggling to come to terms with fewer local authority contracts and politicians’ preference for independent living. How can the sector respond, asks Vern Pitt

The country’s biggest residential care provider, Southern Cross Healthcare, last month ran into serious financial trouble raising fears that similar problems could spread through the sector.

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