Crossroads Care to provide day care for people living with dementia in Newmarket
New care scheme for dementia sufferers
A CHARITY which supports carers will set up a new day care scheme in Newmarket thanks to a funding boost.
Crossroads Care will introduce the Homeshare scheme to the town and the surrounding area to provide day care for people living with dementia.
The team is appealing for volunteers to act as “homesharers” by providing their own homes for the scheme
The Low Review of personal mobility needs is extended to seek views of young people
Review of DLA mobility component seeks views of young people, parents and colleges to investigate ‘double counting’
5th September 2011
The Low Review of personal mobility needs is extended to seek views of young people, their parent’s and residential schools and colleges
The independent review looking at the personal mobility needs of people living in residential care, led by Lord Low, has today published a call for evidence from disabled young people aged 16 and over, their families, and residential schools and colleges.
The Low Review has been created in response to proposals within the Welfare Reform Bill to stop paying the mobility component of the Personal Independence Payment, replacing DLA, to disabled people living in publicly funded residential care homes or colleges.
Knutsford council are ignoring “the needs of the ill or disabled or their exhausted and impoverished carers
Austerity begins at home: Cuts bite among Chancellor’s constituents
He said we’re all in it together – but few believed him. Now George Osborne faces anger in his back yard, as his economic ‘Plan A’ takes its toll. Paul Vallely reports
Saturday, 10 September 2011
We’ve never had so many members of the public come to a meeting, said the bewildered Conservative leader of Cheshire East County Council, Wesley Fitzgerald, at the start of its cabinet meeting this week. It was so packed that they had to move the councillors’ seating to accommodate the public.
