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Useful Information
 

 

"Looking after me" - A course for Carers
Looking after me is a course for adults who care for someone with a long term health condition or disability.

It will look at relation techniques, dealing with tiredness, healthy eating, coping with feelings of depression, planning for the future and much more.

Gill Foreman is in the process of organising dates around the county for Carers to attend and would very much like to hear from Carers who would like to attend. Further details can be obtained from Gill on 01536 310294 or gill.foreman@eppcic.co.uk

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Who cares for your pets?
The Cinnamon Trust is a registered charity with a national network of volunteers who will provide day care, fostering and long term care for pets, helping many sick and elderly people.

Their contact details are:
The Cinnamon Trust, 10 Market Square, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 4HE
Tel. 01736 757900

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Special Needs-Involving Parents (SN-IP) is the Northamptonshire Parent Partnership Service
SN-IP helps families who have a child with special needs take an active part in their child's educational development. SN-IP works with all those who help children with special educational needs.

The children are in the age range 0-19 years and include the large numbers of children without a statement whose special educational needs are met in mainstream schools, as well as those who have a statement and are educated in mainstream or special schools.

SN-IP aims to:

  • Provide information.
  • Provide confidential and impartial advice and support.
  • Help parents and carers express their views.
  • Assist them in getting those views valued by professionals.
  • Work with schools and Northamptonshire County Council to help them involve parents in all aspects of their children's special educational needs.
  • Provide opportunities for the early resolution of disagreements between parents and school or Northamptonshire County Council.
  • Promote working partnerships between parents, education, social services, health and voluntary organisations.
  • Help parents and carers to choose a parental supporter who can be completely independent of Northamptonshire County Council if parents wish.

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Did you know that Anglian Water offers a set of metered tariffs for our customers with different needs?

 ·        the AquaCare tariff benefits customers who are in receipt of certain qualifying
       benefits and either:
     o       have three or more dependent children
                  or
     o       at least one occupant suffering from one of a specified list of medical
                   conditions.

·        AquaCare Plus is an additional tariff for Anglian Water customers with high consumption, in receipt of benefit only.

·        the SoLow tariff is for customers who use less water than the average household.

To find out how you can save money on your water bill and for more information on the above tariffs, please contact Anglian Water on 08457 91 91 55 or visit the website www.anglianwater.co.uk

Anglian Water aims to provide the best possible service and meet the needs of all our customers. Some of our customers need extra help and consideration and can request to be included on our WaterCare register. 

Examples of the help we provide include:

·        special arrangements for customers who require a constant water supply for medical reasons

·        for customers who may have difficulty reading their bills, we can read the bill over the phone or send a Braille or large print version

To find out more and register please call Anglian Water on 08457 91 91 55 or visit the website www.anglianwater.co.uk

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Warm Front Grants
The Warm Front scheme is funded by Government to assist people who are in receipt of disability or income related benefits. The purpose of the grants is to provide heating and insulation improvements to your home.

The scheme can provide up to £2,500.00 to households on certain benefits to improve their heating and energy efficiency.

To find out more go to www.eaga.co.uk or phone 0800 316 6011

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Carers living in South Northamptonshire
The South Northants Volunteer Centre have a new scheme called the 'Safe n Sound' Project, the scheme is designed to help householders in South Northamptonshire feel safer from the dangers of fire, crime and the cold, as well as live more warmly and healthily in their own homes.

The programme offers FREE smoke alarms, door chains and low energy light bulbs, supplied and fitted by the Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue Service or Care & Repair Daventry and South Northants.

For more details, please contact South Northants Volunteer Centre on 01327 358264 or click here to download flyer.

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Disability Equipment Website
Ability Northants are in the process of putting together a website with useful information on 'Disability Equipment, wheelchair loan, Equipment suppliers etc. the site can be found at www.equipmentnorthants.org.uk

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Modern technology has some unexpected uses.
Carers have you thought about buying one of the new wireless doorbells as an alert to you when the person you care for needs something?
 
This is how it works
The bell push stays with the cared for person. The plug in ringer goes with the carer and can be plugged into any socket in the house or shed or garage. This gives the carer much more freedom to get on with jobs around the house, garage and garden. 
 
 Available from all electrical and DIY stores.

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What happens when you, the Carer are poorly?
Age Concern, Carers Scheme have paid Care workers around the county, who are trained up to a personal care level to take over the caring role should a Carer become ill at short notice or they have a medically related appointment for the GP, Dentist or Hospital etc.

For more details on how to register for the 'Response' Scheme, please contact Sue Treacy on 01604 611200 or carers@acnorthants.org.uk

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'A useful tip'   

Shopping from a catalogue or the web can get boring and you don't get the pleasure of seeing and handling the goods first before you buy them.
 
Carers, do you realise that most shops will allow you to take clothes, shoes, etc on approval if you explain the situation?  
 
Do remember to find out how long you can have the goods on approval and if they are not wanted, make sure you return the goods by that date. Remember to keep the receipt or you will not get a refund. 
 
Being able to see and handle clothes and make a choice,  will give the cared for person so much pleasure and a feeling of being able to make their own choices.

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Carers Information Pack
The ‘Carers Strategy Implementation Group’, which is lead by Northamptonshire County Council, Community Services and consists of Carers and members of staff & volunteers working for Carers within the Voluntary sector have been working together to compile a ‘Carers Information Pack’. 

The pack contains basic and useful information for Carers and gives the opportunity for organisations using the pack to customise them to their own organisation and to the Carers that are requesting the information.

For a free paper copy, please contact Maureen Jerram on 01604 237680 or dlewis@northamptonshire.gov.uk or Jenny Osborne on 01604 624088 or carers@abilitynorthants.org.uk

You can also view the contents by clicking here

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