Plans to improve the earnings caps for carers in Guernsey
Benefit changes welcomed by disability groups
By Luke Richardson
Wigwam Support Group adviser Jenny Hooper, left, and Guernsey Disability Alliance chairwoman Shelaine Green have welcomed Social Security plans to improve the grants system for carers. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1180874)
LIFTING the earnings cap for people claiming a carer’s allowance would make their work seem less devalued, disability groups have said.
Ella-Grace Honeyman gets ready to head out to New York for her latest life-saving operation
Hopes high that Ella-Grace is set for her final surgery
By VICTORIA LEGGETT
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
6:30 AM
Little Ella-Grace Honeyman flew to New York once again yesterday with hopes high it will be the last time the youngster faces life-threatening brain surgery.
The four-year-old, from Hevingham, near Aylsham, suffers from the rare condition vein of Galen malformation. Yesterday she headed to America for a seventh operation to seal leaking blood vessels in her brain.
Live online learning a key technology for charity L&D
Live online learning a key technology for charity L&D
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Delegates at the Charity Learning Consortium Conference, held in London last week, said that live online environments would be their preferred L&D technology for the coming 18 months.
During a conference session on “E-learning secrets of success”, delegates were asked which technologies they would be using in the coming 18 months. Live online learning was followed by custom content, cloud computing, ideo/user generated content, mobile and inhouse and external social media.
