Tag Archives: disability

West Sussex Carers get a chance to share their needs!

April 17, 2013   Carers, disability

Focus on carers at Health and Wellbeing Board

Date: 10 April 2013
Press release number: PR5417

A presentation on carers and their needs will feature at the West Sussex Health and Wellbeing Board meeting this month.

It’s the first meeting of the Board to take place since the national NHS changes came into effect on 1 April 2013, which sees the responsibility for public health moving to local authorities and also the introduction of the three West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Groups.

The meeting, which is open to the public to attend, takes place on Thursday 18 April 2013 at 2.15pm at County Hall, West Street, Chichester, PO19 1RQ.

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Help for carers and other residents to keep warm in North Norfolk

April 15, 2013   Carers, disability, fuel poverty, Norfolk

Almost 2,000 in North Norfolk to save money on energy bills

Monday, April 15, 2013
3:31 PM

Almost 2,000 north Norfolk households are set for a spring cut to their electricity and gas bills, having signed up for a pioneering scheme.   Across the district, 2,796 homes registered with Big Switch and Save, with 71pc expected to save money.

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Showing the exemptions

April 15, 2013   Carers, disability

‘A big day for welfare reform,’ David Cameron hails new benefits cap

DAVID Cameron has said it is “amazing” that Labour opposes a new policy cap on the amount of benefits people can receive, as a trial began in parts of the capital today.

By: Charlotte Meredith

  David Cameron said it was a ‘big day for benefits reform’ as the cap was imposed
The cap, being introduced in the four London boroughs of Croydon, Bromley, Haringey and Enfield, will see couples and single parents receive no more than £500 a week in benefits.The limit for single people is £350, though there are some exemptions.
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