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• My working week: 'A pupil has OCD and is terrified of people in masks'

  12-10-2020 09:45
  
  Return to school after lockdown is difficult for the children I help with special educational needs and disabilitiesOur inquiry line is ringing constantly. We thought returning to school after lockdown would be difficult for many children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), and we were right. The coronavirus rules mean that what they’re used to has changed. Related: My working week: 'When I see kids so excited to eat again, I know how vital my food bank is'Continue read
  
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• Locals with disabilities lead green give away at prize Blackpool allotment

  12-10-2020 08:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  A charity’s award winning Blackpool allotment has been making the most of a surplus of fruit and vegetables this summer, enabling locals with learning disabilities to pack and deliver boxes of homegrown produce to help out those most in need in the community.
   
  Potters Den, run by national learning disability charity United Response, has been unable to operate in its usual capacity as a result of the lockdown and the strict social distancing measures that have been enforced. Determine
  
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• Summer of fun as Colten Care residents celebrate how their gardens grow

  12-10-2020 08:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents and staff at The Aldbury dementia care home in Poole celebrate winning this year’s Colten produce show.
  From cute carrots to beautiful beans, and radiant roses to delightful daffs, a bumper crop of entries has energised a care home provider’s second annual produce show.
   
  Residents at all 21 Colten Care homes in the south took part in the friendly contest, planting and tending the growth of a dizzying array of fruit, veg, flowers and shrubs.
   
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• Lymington couple still side by side 65 years on

  12-10-2020 07:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lymington couple Fred and Iris Woodford enjoy their 65th wedding anniversary celebration at Colten Care’s Woodpeckers care home in Brockenhurst, Hampshire.
  Memories of the mid-1950s were rekindled as a Lymington couple celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in the New Forest care home they both moved to a year ago.
   
  Staff at Colten Care’s Outstanding-rated Woodpeckers in Brockenhurst helped Fred and Iris Woodford mark their special day with a Covid-safe party for family and
  
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• I found out the hard way that caring for dying relatives is almost impossible in our society | Emily Kenway

  12-10-2020 07:00
  
  Looking after my terminally ill mother made it clear that care is simply not considered in how work and communities are set upCaring during Covid-19 has been a strange experience, but not in the way you might think. When the pandemic hit in early 2020, my mother had been sick with cancer for two years. I was leading almost a double life: at work, I inhabited the “normal” world, where conversations about annual leave quotas or inbox management mattered; outside office hours, my only c
  
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