NorseCare wins double bid to provide ‘high quality’ care and dementia support in Norfolk

August 5, 2013   Carers, dementia, disability, Norfolk, Older care

Article By: Laura McCardle, News Editor

Elderly people in Norfolk are set to benefit from a new £4.2m housing with care scheme

 

The cash for the development, which will be built on the Three Score site in Bowthorpe, will be provided by the Home and Communities Agency (HCA) and the Department of Health, after Norwich City Council promised to provide the land free of charge.

The housing with care scheme will be made up of 78 one-bedroom and 14 two-bedroom apartments with landscaped gardens and community facilities. NorseCare will work in partnership with Norwich City Council, Norfolk County Council and NPS Property Consultants to develop the scheme, which will provide “vital support” to elderly people in the area.

Colleen Walker, board member and county councillor, said: “NorseCare is committed to providing high quality care across the county and the hard work and funding that has gone into applying for these apartments is a great example of this.

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Bedroom tax: families trapped with nowhere to move

August 5, 2013   Carers, ukcuts

Revealed: ‘Big lie’ behind the bedroom tax as families trapped with nowhere to move so cannot avoid new penalty for having spare room

Emily Dugan Author Biography

Social Affairs Correspondent

Monday 05 August 2013

96% of benefit claimants who will be penalised cannot be rehoused

The Government’s justification for its controversial “bedroom tax” has been debunked by new figures showing that up to 96 per cent of those affected have, in effect, nowhere to move.

The figures published today in The Independent expose the false argument behind ministerial attempts to spin the move as ending the  “spare-room subsidy”, and confirm campaigners’ claims that it merely penalises poor people.

The policy means that tenants have their housing benefit reduced by 14 per cent if they have one spare bedroom, and 25 per cent if they have two or more spare bedrooms.

Yet more than 19 out of 20 families  hit by the bedroom tax are trapped in their larger homes because there is nowhere smaller within the local social housing stock to take them. This is shown by figures provided by councils in response to Freedom of Information requests by the Labour Party.

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Carers will qualify for childcare vouchers

August 5, 2013   Carers

 Plans to help working parents with nursery bills are to be  extended to cover carers and  people taking maternity or paternity leave.

Nigel Morris Author Biography

Deputy Political Editor

Monday 05 August 2013

Plans to help working parents with nursery bills are to be  extended to cover carers and  people taking maternity or paternity leave.

Chancellor George Osborne will confirm today that he is pressing ahead with a £1bn scheme to ease the childcare costs faced by families with two working parents.

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