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• Care home resident creates braille menu to celebrate National Braille Week

  06-11-2020 08:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  In support of the National Awareness day, a local resident from Castleford Lodge care home in West Yorkshire has dedicated her time to creating a special braille menu for blind people.
   
  Princess Baldwin has been a resident at the Orchard Care Home since November 2019 and thoroughly enjoys working on projects with the support of the entire activities team. She worked with staff member Shelly, who read out every item as Princess used her braille writer to type each one out. The special menu
  
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• Plymouth care workers scale Mount Snowdon to raise money in memory of colleague

  06-11-2020 06:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Four care workers from the Kanner Project in Plymouth have scaled Mount Snowdon to raise money for charity and a memorial for a colleague who passed away in August.
   
  Kurtis Steele, Rebecca Tompsett, Natalie Cook and Hannah Wells took on the 1,085m Welsh giant on 22 September to fundraise for Mind and to create a memorial for Carl Logan, who died last month from an ongoing medical condition.
   
  Mind is a charity close to the four fundraisers hearts and provides vital support to individu
  
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• Abuse of babies is up by a fifth during Covid crisis, Ofsted says

  06-11-2020 01:01
  
  Chief inspector says virus has put extra strain on families, with rise also in accidental deathsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe number of babies in England that have suffered serious injury through abuse or neglect during the Covid pandemic is up by a fifth on the same period last year, and eight have died from their injuries, according to Ofsted.More than 300 “serious incident notifications” of injury and death involving children were reported b
  
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• COVID-19 linked to worse stroke outcomes

  06-11-2020 00:38
  
  People who experience strokes while infected with COVID-19 appear to be left with greater disability after the stroke, according a new study.
  
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