Tag Archives: disability

Plans to improve the earnings caps for carers in Guernsey

September 20, 2011   benefits, Carers, disability

 

Benefit changes welcomed by disability groups

By Luke Richardson

 

 

Wigwam Support Group adviser Jenny Hooper, left, and Guernsey Disability Alliance chairwoman Shelaine Green have welcomed Social Security plans to improve the grants system for carers. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1180874)

LIFTING the earnings cap for people claiming a carer’s allowance would make their work seem less devalued, disability groups have said.

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Yorkshire group spearheads bedsores care drive

September 19, 2011   Carers, disability

Anyone can develop a pressure ulcer but those most at risk have reduced mobility

Published on Monday 19 September 2011 06:00

A YORKSHIRE-based network is spearheading efforts to improve care of a condition that costs the NHS billions of pounds to treat.

 Estimates suggest as much as four per cent of NHS expenditure is spent on pressure ulcers, also called bedsores, which affect half a million people each year in the UK. It occurs when pressure is applied to skin to disrupt blood flow long enough for it to break down.

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Disabled and carers plan to fight closure of Centre for Independent Living

September 16, 2011   Carers, disability, ukcuts
 SOS Westminster
 

Published: 16 September 2011
by JOSH LOEB

CARERS have been forced to set up a do-it-yourself-style day centre for some of Westminster’s most vulnerable people.
 
The Centre for Independent Living in Paddington, which offers activities for deaf and wheelchair-bound residents, will close at the end of this month as part of a shake-up of social care.People with disabilities who have been fighting the closure now plan to club together to stage regular art and cookery classes at another venue nearby.

Di Yeo, chair of campaign group SOS Westminster, called the impending closure “a great tragedy”.

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