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• Moving children far away from home in a privatised care system | Letters

  18-09-2019 19:12
  A placement should be selected because it suits the child’s needs best, not the system’s, writes Sarah Parker, while Cllr Barry Kushner says the problem is rooted in the privatisation of careYour report on vulnerable children being sent to care homes hundreds of miles away from where they live (Councils ‘unwittingly helping drug gangs recruit children’, 17 September) makes for uncomfortable reading. More than a third of children are being placed out of their local authori
  
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• Manager appointed at Formby care home

  18-09-2019 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cheryl Bris, from Maghull, has been appointed by New Care as Home Manager for Formby Manor, a new expertly designed and purpose-built care facility located on Liverpool Road in Formby. The care home, which will officially open in August, is a stylish, state-of-the-art 76 bedroom care facility providing an exceptional clinical offering including residential, nursing […]
  
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• 'Missing out is not a worry for me': the millennial foster carers

  18-09-2019 10:29
  More and more people in their 20s and early 30s are becoming foster carers. Here, younger Guardian readers explain whyGrowing up in a fostering family, Natalie Wainwright always planned to become a foster parent. But she didn’t think she’d be doing it in her 20s.Wainwright, who lives in Sussex, is at 23 one of the UK’s youngest foster carers – well below the average age of 45 to 54. After working full-time as a teacher for a year, she chose to go part-time, believing she
  
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• Pilot scheme providing medical help for vulnerable people shortlisted for European award

  18-09-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A pilot project providing medical help for vulnerable people in rural Scotland and Ireland been shortlisted for a prestigious European award. The Scottish Ambulance Service and Glasgow Caledonian University have been instrumental in the Community Paramedic Project – a cross-border initiative designed to reduce the number of people who visit A&E departments. And now the […]
  
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• Lancashire supported living service receives glowing CQC report

  18-09-2019 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Lancashire service which supports people to live in their own homes has received a glowing Care Quality Commission (CQC) report. Limes Place, which opened in Colne, near Burnley, in December 2018, provides 11 specially designed flats and 24-hour support for people with mental health conditions, learning disabilities or physical disabilities. The service, which is […]
  
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• The NHS saved Mum - but I saw a system on life support | Diane Taylor

  18-09-2019 07:01
  Social workers too busy to discharge patients, no wheelchairs in sight. A significant increase in funding is vitalA week ago the NHS saved my mum’s life. She had been prescribed some new blood pressure medication which caused her sodium levels to plummet dangerously. Clinicians in A&E ran blood tests, identified the problem and treated it, restoring the balance of minerals so that her sodium was once again coexisting in harmony with her potassium and the various other things floating a
  
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