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• Heathcare facility available to let in Birmingham-Care news

  31-07-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brook House, 30 Berners Street, Lozells, Birmingham, B19 2DR
  A Vacant Former Residential Care Facility, 20 plus bedrooms on 0.7 acre self-contained site.
   
   
   
   
  Property Description
  A former purpose built modern residential care facility of twenty plus bedrooms, with scope to increase this number, and ancillary accommodation. Set back from the road behind fore, side and rear gardens with driveway approach and car parking.
  Ground Floor
  Entrance Porch, Hall, Reception Office,
  
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• Healthcare facility available to let in Birmingham-Care news

  31-07-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brook House, 30 Berners Street, Lozells, Birmingham, B19 2DR
  A Vacant Former Residential Care Facility, 20 plus bedrooms on 0.7 acre self-contained site.
  Available on new lease terms and rental offers invited.
   
   
   
   
  Property Description
  A former purpose built modern residential care facility of twenty plus bedrooms, with scope to increase this number, and ancillary accommodation. Set back from the road behind fore, side and rear gardens with driveway approach and car parki
  
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• Hunt urges France and Germany to overrule Barnier and insist on EU compromising over Brexit – as it happened

  31-07-2018 17:21
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happenAfternoon summary 4.11pm BST Do I think that elite universities are biased against disadvantaged children? No, I don’t think instinctively they are - I think they want people to be able to benefit from what they have to offer. But I think we need to go further, they need to go further. There’s a lot of money being spent on these access programmes and so on and there’s a very legitimate public interest in m
  
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• Clare in the community: too many cooks

  31-07-2018 16:00
  Clare and colleagues go all out for their client Continue reading...
  
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• Hunt urges France and Germany to overrule Barnier and insist on EU compromising over Brexit - Politics live

  31-07-2018 15:03
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen 2.03pm BST Jeremy Hunt, the new foreign secretary, has given an interview to the Evening Standard. In it he repeated a line that he used when he visited Berlin soon after being appointed and said a no deal Brexit could sour relations between the EU and the UK for a generation. But he also went further, urging France and Germany to overrule Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, and to insist on the EU comp
  
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• Stairwells, parks, playgrounds ... let’s target places where abuse happens | Alison Benjamin

  31-07-2018 14:00
  Instead of just focusing on the family, contextual safeguarding aims to transform dangerous places into safe environments for young people“A stairwell, a park, a shopping centre, an alleyway, a takeaway, outside a hotel or hostel, or even a school playground or classroom: these are all places where young people are being abused or are at risk of abuse,” says Carlene Firmin. For six years Firmin, who is a campaigner on safeguarding adolescents, especially young women affected by gang
  
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• Corbyn ally Peter Willsman urged to quit Labour's NEC after antisemitism outburst - Politics live

  31-07-2018 13:19
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen 12.19pm BST Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, has put out a statement claiming that the comments from Peter Willsman recorded at the NEC meeting (see 10.41am) showed “contempt for the Jewish community” and that the Labour leadership should have taken action against him at the time. 12.07pm BST Although parliament is in recess, Commons select committee are still publishing report
  
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• Council leaders float plans to raise taxes to fund adult social care - Politics live

  31-07-2018 10:39
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen 9.32am BST One of the many downsides of Brexit is that for the last two years or more it has sucked all the energy out of the Westminster policy making process, with the result that other problems are being ignored. It is a major opportunity cost. There are plenty of examples, but adult social care is probably the most glaring. Experts agree the situation is in crisis. The Conservatives floated some audacious plans in thei
  
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• Social care charity is top investor in people

  31-07-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  An adult health and social care charity has become one of just a handful of organisations in the country to retain a Silver standard Investors People (IiP) award.
   
  Warrington-based Making Space, which employs around a thousand people nationwide, has been accredited with IiP since 2009. First awarded Silver status in 2014, the charity has managed to hang on to its premium accreditation level despite a much tougher standard being introduced this year.
   
  The new higher level Silver award
  
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• Proposed new income tax to fund elderly social care in Wales would be “throwing good money after bad”

  31-07-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pendine Park Proprietor Mario Kreft.
  A proposed new income tax to fund elderly social care would be “throwing good money after bad” unless there’s radical reform of the whole system, it’s been warned.
  The idea for the tax of between one per cent and three per cent was recommended in a report by top economist Professor Gerard Holtham which was commissioned by the Welsh Government.
  Mario Kreft MBE, the Chair of Care Forum Wales which represents nearly 500 social care provid
  
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• Bristol Council publishes new social care plan for ‘radical change’

  31-07-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bristol City Council has published a plan which sets out the new way it intends to work with care and support providers to transform services available for vulnerable adults.
  This is the first time the council has published a plan of this kind and it comes in response to the challenges of having a growing aging population and people living longer with more complex needs.
  Known as the Market Position Statement and aimed at the provider sector, including housing providers and community organisatio
  
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