Tag Archives: Learning difficulties

Holt Hall is saved for children with learning difficulties and disabilities

New lease of life as Norfolk County Council revamps Holt Hall
Steve Downes, Education Correspondent
Friday, July 1, 2011
6:00 PM

Holt Hall Environmental and Outdoor Learning Centre.

Holt Hall Environmental and Outdoor Learning Centre.

A Norfolk field studies centre is enjoying a new lease of life, just over a year after it was threatened with closure.
Holt Hall Environmental and Outdoor Learning Centre escaped the axe last year when Norfolk County Council looked set to remove funding from it and Wells Field Study Centre.

It was reprieved, and now the council has spent £43,000 to upgrade its facilities to make it more accessible and user-friendly for children with learning difficulties and disabilities.

People with learning difficulties and their carers not welcome at Butlins

Butlin’s ought to think again

 

Published on Thursday 7 July 2011 08:27

www.thestar.co.uk

 

BUTLIN’S should find some way to open their doors to a party of Sheffield people with learning disabilities, and their carers, who have been told they are not welcome at their Skegness resort.

The official reason is that the holiday company does not welcome large groups of adults as they intimidate family parties at their camps. But there is surely a difference between the Sheffield party, which includes a 59-year-old Down’s Syndrome sufferer, and a party of hell-raisers on a stag night.

County Council support to help most vulnerable

30 June 2011

County Council support to help most vulnerable
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
 More people in Norfolk are set to benefit from a project that sees the health of vulnerable people benefit from a structured program of farming–related activities on a ‘care farm’.