Tag Archives: Learning difficulties
Cuts to transport scheme for disabled adults could force Flintshire carer out of work
Around 500 others who use the transport each week are also currently being assessed for eligibility
Feb 2 2012 by Francesca Elliott, Flintshire Chronicle
A WOMAN who cares for her disabled sister has blasted council bosses for a £400,000 transport service cut which could impact hundreds and force her to quit her job.
Julie Forster, of Mynydd Isa, is carer to her vulnerable 51-year-old sister Jackie, who has learning disabilities and often needs a wheelchair.
Jackie, like about 500 others in Flintshire, relies on council-funded transport, which uses private contractors to drive people with learning disabilities to day care centres or work opportunities.
Well done to Bromley Mencap for caring about carers
Bromley Mencap gets national award for its Mutual Carers scheme
9:44am Sunday 11th December 2011 in News
BROMLEY Mencap has scooped a national award for a scheme which helps carers who also need to be cared for.
Carers meet with politicians
Parents and carers quiz politicians at Hill Croft
Julie Wilson and Eunice Neill at Hill Croft School for the question and answer session regarding the Post 19 transition process for children with special needs. INNT 42-409-RM
The Post 19 Lobby Group, made up of parents and carers of children and young people with severe learning disabilities from across Northern Ireland, hosted a ‘Question Time’ event at Hill Croft School in New Mossley on Thursday, October 13.
