Dementia Awareness Week: a family carer’s message to professionals
The Guardian – social care network
Carers should be recognised as advocates and their views integrated into assessments and care packages, says one long-term carer.
Social workers may be asked to submit client information for benefit test
Community Care
Social workers could be asked to provide reports for the Department for Work and Pensions about clients after judges ruled that existing procedures for claiming sickness benefit disadvantaged clients with mental health problems, learning disabilities or autism.
New CRB body to launch ‘time-saving’ checking process in June
Civil Society
The Disclosure and Barring Service, which has replaced CRB checks, has announced details of its new Update Service, which will be launched in June and “save the customer time and money and improve the overall safeguarding landscape”.
Commission suggests charging charities or top-slicing gift aid to fund its services
Civil Society
The Charity Commission has suggested to the Treasury that it takes a slice of gift aid or places a direct levy on charities, as it warns it cannot sustain a further 10% funding cut expected in the government’s upcoming spending review.
Blogger who chronicled her terminal cancer dies
Scotsman
Louise Page, a charity worker who inspired thousands of people from across the world by blogging about living with a terminal illness, has died.
New partnership to improve end of life care for local people
Rochdale Online
Staff from the NHS, Rochdale Borough Council and Springhill Hospice have committed to working more closely together to improve end of life care.
Hospice to get ‘magical woodland walk’
Worthing Herald
A ‘magical woodland walk’ is planned for the Chestnut Tree House children’s hospice, thanks to Greenfingers, the charity dedicated to creating gardens in children’s hospices around the UK.
Mankini feat raises more than a smile
Bury Times
Peter Foster had good reason to be saddle sore — after he donned a mankini as part of a 100-mile fundraising bike ride to help make £10,000 for Bury Hospice.
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