Tag Archives: disability
Benefit cuts will hit family carers over the coming years
Carers ‘disproportionately hit’ by government cuts
Mithran Samuel
Wednesday 04 January 2012 00:13
Carers will be disproportionately hit by government benefit cuts over the coming years, research published today shows.
Tax and benefit changes from 2010-15 will result in a real terms drop of 6% in net income for households where a person claims carer’s allowance, compared with a 4% fall for other households, found an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, commissioned by the Family and Parenting Institute.
Politicians urged to seize chance to change social care
Plans to reform social care will be put forward in the spring, ministers said.
3 January 2012 Last updated at 08:26
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Politicians from all parties have been urged to work together to find a way to overhaul the “failing” social care system in England.
Cross-party talks about the care given to the elderly and disabled failed in 2010 but will start again this month.
In an open letter, charities, faith-based groups and senior figures in the NHS and local government say the opportunity must not be missed.
Plans to reform social care will be put forward in the spring, ministers said.
60 disadvantaged and vulnerable people on the Santa Special
All aboard for the Santa Special at Dereham
By IAN CLARKE
Saturday, December 24, 2011
1:48 PM
There were smiles and waves as dozens of children and adults were given a ride on the Santa Special train on the Mid Norfolk Railway on Friday.
Dereham and District Round Table used some of the thousands of pounds it collects from its sleigh collections to hire a carriage for more than 60 disadvantaged and vulnerable people of all ages on the pre-Christmas journey from Dereham to Wymondham.
