Tag Archives: carers
Plans to make it easier for people with disabilities to employ Personal Assistants
Department of Health tackles shortfall of Personal Assistants
28th July 2011
Plans to make it easier for people with disabilities to employ Personal Assistants to help them to live as full a life as possible were revealed today by Care Services Minister Paul Burstow.
A Framework for Personal Assistants helps offer universal support for people with care needs as well as the PAs they employ. It maintains the flexibility of the role, which makes them so vital in helping people with disabilities to live their lives and aims to increase the number of PAs available.
Research shows that those receiving payments can be nervous about becoming an employer and the lack of a clear, universal job description can be a barrier to those considering joining the profession.
Boost for North Yorkshire respite care centres
Improvements for adult day care in North Yorkshire
9:33am Thursday 28th July 2011
By Mark Stead » Political Reporter
MILLIONS of pounds are to be spent on bringing adult day care in North Yorkshire up to date.
The £3.8 million package of improvements to Selby Day Activity Centre will include the creation of a new four-bed respite unit after the facility was marked out as needing work to bring it up to modern standards.
New dementia centre opens in Harford, Norwich
Improving the lives of dementia sufferers in Norwich.
Lucy Wright Thursday, July 28, 2011
10.50 AM
Dementia sufferers gathered with staff and their carers yesterday to celebrate the opening of a new centre in Norwich.
Harford Hill dementia centre, in Ipswich Road, will care for up to 25 people and the £90,000 project involved altering, improving and furnishing an existing building on the same site as the council-run Learning Difficulties resource centre.
