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• Free care and four-day weeks: Labour's big, bold, pricey policies

  23-09-2019 21:12
  Party shifts further towards radical socialist policies, taking its cue from 2017 manifestoA four-day week, getting rid of private schools, scrapping universal credit, abolishing the schools inspectorate, an end to prescription charges, free care for elderly people and free nursery places for toddlers. These are undoubtedly big, bold policies from a Labour conference on the eve of an election.Some of them will come with big price tags, but the leadership has made a bet that the public want polic
  
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• Banstead garden aids sensory stimulation for residents living with dementia

  23-09-2019 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sunrise of Banstead has created a new Sensory Garden to help aid sensory stimulation for residents living with dementia. Led by Activities Coordinator Tamara Juckes, the garden has been developed as a calm, outside environment in the Memory Care Neighborhood where all the senses can be stimulated. Aside from being a beautiful space for residents […]
  
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• Arts-loving care organisation honoured with top award

  23-09-2019 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  An arts-loving care organisation have been honoured with a top award for their partnership with a theatre company in producing a moving play about dementia. More than 5,000 people saw the drama, Ŵy, Chips a Nain (Egg, Chips and Grandma), which was inspired by residents of Pendine Park in North Wales. At the glittering Arts […]
  
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• Wild West Show Thrills Somerset Care Home Residents

  23-09-2019 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents at a specialist dementia care home in Wellington, Somerset, have enjoyed an exciting day in the ‘Wild West,’ thanks to a western-themed experience day arranged by the home’s sharp-shootin’ activities team. Activities co-ordinator Richard Dempslake and colleagues Kathy Burge, Amy Lemon and Sophie Carter, dressed up as a cowboy and cowgirls to put on […]
  
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• Kinship carers left with debt and ill health for 'doing the right thing'

  23-09-2019 07:00
  Campaigners call for more support for family and friends caring for vulnerable childrenKinship carers who agree to raise the vulnerable children of relatives as an alternative to adoption say lack of state support for “doing the right thing” has pushed them into crippling debt, ill health and, in extreme cases, homelessness.Campaigners have called for reform of a system which, they say, demands huge financial and emotional sacrifices and saves the state millions of pounds each year b
  
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