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Care in the Community has been a failure for the mentally sick!
Care in the community is ‘a £100bn failure’: Mentally ill patients have been neglected for decades, says Iain Duncan Smith think-tank
By Jason Groves
The controversial ‘care in the community’ approach to treating the mentally ill has been a £100billion failure, a report warns today.
The study by the respected Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) suggests that many mental health patients have been ‘neglected’ for decades because the policy of closing down asylums was not accompanied by an increase in local care.
Gift boxes wanted to give Carers for Christmas
Foodbank plea for Christmas gift boxes
2:00pm Sunday 30th October 2011
AN ANDOVER charity is asking residents to help make Christmas special for local children.
Last year Andover Foodbank donated more than 400 gift boxes to children in the community identified by care workers from agencies and organisations who work in partnership with the charity.
Some of the children are in families or with carers who cannot afford to buy gifts at Christmas. Others are living in chaotic situations where children are simply not thought about.
A Carer visits a Carers Anonymous Meeting !
Carers Anonymous Meeting Held 27th October 2011.
Good Evening Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen.
I hope you will forgive me for being terribly nervous as I am unaccustomed to public speaking.
I admit, here tonight before you all that I am a carer.
I first started caring about 10 years ago. I thought that it was a macho thing to do at the time. I was sure I could manage it, after all it seemed so simple and straightforward and I could fit it in with the other things I was doing, like full time work and general DIY round the house and garden.
