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Holt Hall is saved for children with learning difficulties and disabilities
New lease of life as Norfolk County Council revamps Holt Hall
Steve Downes, Education Correspondent
Friday, July 1, 2011
6:00 PM
Holt Hall Environmental and Outdoor Learning Centre.
A Norfolk field studies centre is enjoying a new lease of life, just over a year after it was threatened with closure.
Holt Hall Environmental and Outdoor Learning Centre escaped the axe last year when Norfolk County Council looked set to remove funding from it and Wells Field Study Centre.
It was reprieved, and now the council has spent £43,000 to upgrade its facilities to make it more accessible and user-friendly for children with learning difficulties and disabilities.
Airport gets young carers’ driving dreams airborne
Airport gets young carers’ driving dreams airborne
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Think of Belfast City Airport and driving lessons don’t immediately spring to mind. But all that is about to change for a group of young carers
They’ve just been awarded over £5,000 from the George Best Belfast City Airport Community Fund. The five are members of the charity Action for Children Northern Ireland and the funds will be spent on helping them learn to drive.
Young carers are children and young people under 18 whose lives are restricted by the need to care for a person who has an illness, a disability or issues with their mental health or with drugs or alcohol.
People with learning difficulties and their carers not welcome at Butlins
Butlin’s ought to think again
www.thestar.co.uk
BUTLIN’S should find some way to open their doors to a party of Sheffield people with learning disabilities, and their carers, who have been told they are not welcome at their Skegness resort.
The official reason is that the holiday company does not welcome large groups of adults as they intimidate family parties at their camps. But there is surely a difference between the Sheffield party, which includes a 59-year-old Down’s Syndrome sufferer, and a party of hell-raisers on a stag night.
