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Carers need to have more respite
Carers told to take a break by Renfrewshire Council
Published 8 Feb 2013 15:30 
CARER’S in Renfrewshire are being told to take a break after the local authority set aside £200,000 to pay for a new home-based respite care service.
Respite care gives carers a break from the daily routine of looking after loved ones who have long-term health problems or disabilities. It allows them the chance to have a night out, a weekend off or a short holiday.
As the name suggests, the new home-based service allows the person who is being cared for to stay in their own home while their carer takes a well earned rest. The person who is being cared for needs to be over 65 to access the new service but the carer can be any age.
A card to show someone cares
Wednesday 6 February 2013
It’s a grown-up job for some of our youngest people.
Being a young carer to a parent or relative is a role that is not chosen but is one that is accepted and valued by those who many of us would still class as children.
In their position as carer, their job is something that many more fortunate youngsters could not even comprehend, little alone do.
That’s why a new scheme was launched this week to make sure young carers enjoy more of the rights they deserve to continue with their vital role as well as live one of the most exciting and promising stages of their lives.
It all started a few years ago.
During the Young Carers Festival in 2010, carers were asked about the problems they faced in their role and what could be done about them.
Local councillor said Dean’s home care was a ‘shambles’
Local councillor carpeted after slamming own social work department over disabled son’s care services on Facebook
THOMAS COCHRANE, who is SNP councillor for Shotts, took to Facebook to vent his fury over home care services provided for his son Dean, who suffers from quadriplegic cerebral palsy.
A COUNCILLOR has been carpeted for branding his own social work department a joke on Facebook.
Thomas Cochrane went on the social networking site to vent his fury over home care services provided for his severely disabled son Dean.
The widower complained that North Lanarkshire social work officials failed to inform him that they had either cancelled or changed the times of home visits for 11-year-old Dean.
Thomas posted on Facebook: “Social work home care is an absolute joke.
