Devon County Council has welcomed the Government’s announcement of extra funding for social care, designed to ease NHS winter pressures. But it warns ‘money alone will not fix the county’s bigger challenge’, which is that there are not enough people working in the domiciliary care sector in Devon.
What’s Exeter really like to live, work or go to school or college in if you’re aged between 14 and 21?
As the Government announces measures to reduce the impact of additional winter pressures on critical front line health services, local Councils are taking steps to prevent people from going to hospital with preventable complaints or to help them return home as quickly as possible after treatment.
There has been a big improvement in the way Devon County Council looks after young people leaving care, according to Ofsted inspectors.
NEW Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) recommended that Devon Children and Families Alliance (The Alliance) be selected as the preferred bidder for the 23.8 million-a-year contract, of which Devon County Council contributes £1.6m. The contract will be awarded for seven years from 1 April 2019, with an option to extend it for a further three years.
And its not just fixers and repair people they need – each café needs volunteers to help in a variety of roles from greeting to admin.
When a call went out asking for people to nominate someone who they felt did amazing things in / for people in Devon, one response immediately stood out. Tom Pales is the founder of Freetrike Rehab Cycling offering cycle coachingaaa
If there was ever a book that speaks to a child so clearly; that prompts conversation and that encourages emotion; and that’s rarely left on the shelf to gather dust, it’s my life story
