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  • Financial abuse: a family affair

    By Jennifer Harvey Financial abuse is a growing danger as bills mount. And the culprits are often those whom you would least suspect I'm a bit web wary. I do buy things over the internet, but I worry about it. I worry about random hackers getting my card details, and receiving a statement saying...
    Posted to The Social Care Experts Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-24-2008

  • Caring for Carers

    This week is Carers Week. There has been quite widespread coverage in the press - certainly from where I’m sitting anyway. Yesterday the government printed it 10 year Strategy for Carers. It has been widely reported that the main tenet of the strategy published - as far as I could tell from the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2008

  • Help to care

    I first saw on the news over the weekend about the report produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research related to  Personalised Budgets for Carers and it baffled me a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, I completely think that carers need, deserve and are entitled to a lot more support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-04-2008

  • The Cost of Caring

    The Guardian published an article this week about the germination of a New Deal for Carers and the results of the consultations that they ran over a period of a couple of months. I hadn’t known this had been going on so thought I’d look at some of the interim findings. Poor Information. There...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-10-2008

  • Carers benefits

    Hi everyone, I'm doing some research into carers benefits and whether they are sufficient to meet their living needs. I'd be interested in getting the thoughts of professionals working with carers of both children and adults - and any carers themselves - to find out how far state help goes in...
    Posted to General chat (Forum) by Dez on 05-02-2008
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