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• Strike-hit council struggling to deliver AMHP service

  09-01-2024 14:48
  
  A strike-hit council is struggling to deliver an approved mental health professional service (AMHP), it had admitted.
  Swindon council said that recruitment problems were affecting its ability to consistently deliver an AMHP service and it was working to address the issue.
  Its admission came after trade union GMB said Swindon now had just one approved mental health professional in its emergency duty service (EDS), which is responsible for the borough’s out-of-hours AMHP service.
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• ‘Our experience is valued’: workshops for care home residents inspire new forms of dance

  09-01-2024 13:45
  Choreographer Aakash Odedra explains how the movements and stories of older people in Leicester are informing Mehek, his collaboration with Aditi MangaldasAround 60 people are chatting and laughing together in a community hall in Belgrave, Leicester. Then Bollywood music begins to play and everyone turns their focus to instructors Jayna Patel and Laura Bryan, who lead from the stage. With bodies swaying, arms fluttering, the group loosen up in readiness for an hour of joyful dancing rooted in st
  
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