Tag Archives: carers
The Football League pitches in for hospice care
The Football League has teamed up with national charity Help the Hospices for the 2011/12 season.
The Football League’s official charity partnership with Help the Hospices will give millions of Football League fans across England and Wales the chance to make a difference for people with life-limiting illnesses in their local community and their families.
REDBRIDGE: Disabled and pensioners to meet bus bosses over complaints
This needs to be looked at all over the country, not just in Redbridge!
12:41pm Wednesday 13th July 2011
BUS bosses and Transport for London (TfL) will be quizzed by disabled people and pensioners over bus accessibility.
Redbridge Transport Action Group (RTAG) will meet with managers from Arriva, Go Ahead and TfL later this month to discuss their grievances and see how things can be improved.
It claims that equal access is being impeded because drivers stop too far from the kerb for disabled people to get on, wheelchair ramps fail to extend properly and buses pull away before disabled and older people are seated, meaning they fall over.
85 year old left alone and bed-ridden for 3 days as carers fail to turn up
Red tape blunder is a feeble excuse, how many other times have vulnerable people been forgotten.
Abandoned: Tameside woman, 85, left alone and bed-ridden for three days as carers fail to turn up in red tape blunder
Exclusive by Jessica Beckett
July 13, 2011
