Life should go on after caring stops

August 6, 2014   Carers, Featured Article, Scotland

Carers have a lot of skills and experience to offer once they stop care-giving  but we need to offer them more support.

6th August 2014

by DR JOYCE CAVAYE

Carers: is there life after care-giving? Have you or anyone you know, ever been an unpaid carer? Three in every five people will be carers at some point in their lives so it is likely that you will know someone who is or has been a carer.

The number of carers in the UK is estimated to be around 6.5 million.

In Scotland, there are about 650,000 unpaid carers providing care and support to family members, partners, friends and neighbours who are affected by ill health, frailty or disability. These numbers are projected to rise over the next 20 years, in response to an aging population and fewer social services.

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Disabled help scheme could be continued

August 5, 2014   Carers, disability, learning difficulties

By Uttoxeter Post and Times  |  Posted: August 05, 2014

Scheme that should be continued

A SUCCESSFUL travel scheme which helps youngsters in Sudbury and Doveridge with special educational needs get out and about could be continued.

Derbyshire County Council’s training helps youths with reduced mobility, learning difficulties or low confidence use public transport.

Its contract with the National Star Foundation is due to end in September next year but a proposal to go out to tender for three years of the training will go to the cabinet meeting for children and young people on Tuesday.

Read more at http://www.uttoxeter-news.co.uk/Disabled-help-scheme-continued/story-22049261-detail/story.html#YYLEsKT2BdCbXdX5.99

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Disabled people take part in football tournament in Edmonton

August 3, 2014   Carers, disability, Featured Article, learning difficulties

People with learning disabilities held their own special Olympic tournament

9:20am Sunday 3rd August 2014 in News  By Anna Slater, Reporter

 Disabled people take part in football tournament

People with learning disabilities held their own special Olympic tournament as part of a scheme to get them involved in sport.

One-to-One Enfield held a football match at the Southbury Leisure Centre, in Southbury Road, Enfield, in association with Special Olympics Great Britain.

Part of the Unified Sports initiative, it enables people of all ages with learning disabilities to practice and play together on the same teams as people of all ages.

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