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Understanding carers in the UK
Understanding carers
Everything you need to know if you know carers, work with carers or deal with carers in your daily life.
http://www.nhs.uk/carersdirect/understanding-carers/pages/understanding-carers-home.aspx
Who was the carer for this 3 year old child?
Who was the Carer?
Three-year-old ‘was an alcoholic’
(UKPA) – A three-year-old child has been treated for alcoholism by staff at an NHS hospital.
The unnamed child, thought to be Britain’s youngest alcoholic, was among 13 youngsters aged 12 and under who were diagnosed as alcoholics by the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust between 2008 and 2010.
Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act also showed that the trust admitted more than 70 children aged 13-16 for emergency treatment for alcohol abuse.
Cuts: “I DON’T want to go back to the olden days – they were really bad.”
CUTS: Vulnerable adults fear cutbacks to care funding
MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD: An action group has been set up by adults with learning difficulties to fight the proposed government cuts to the Supporting People Programme. Picture: Abby Ruston
Those are the words of Gary Stark, 33, of Grimsby, who suffers with learning difficulties.
He is part of an action group of adults with similar problems, who fear cuts to their funding could mean a return to the now redundant long-stay hospitals.
