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Contact us
Maidstone Carers Project
39-48 Marsham Street,
Maidstone Community Support Centre
Maidstone,
ME14 1HH
01622 685276
Carers Project Latest News
CARERS ACTIVITY GROUPS ARE SECURE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS - THANKS TO A GRANT FROM THE COLYER FURGUSSON CHARITABLE TRUST See Activities page for details |
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CARERS CREDIT - If you are of working age you can apply for a weekly Carer's Credit to protect your State Pension. You only need to be caring for 20 hours per week or more [incuding combined hours if you care for more than one person]. For more information wwwcarersuk.org |
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Thank you to all those carers who took part in the Green Paper 'Shaping the Future of Social Care' The publication of the White Paper 'Clear & Ambitious Vision for Care', has taken into account a lot of comments carers made. For more information wwwcarersuk.org |
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Topaz Community based at the Maidstone Community Support Centre in Marsham Street, Maidstone, provide social and leisure activities for disadvantaged persons including those with learning and physical disabilities, their carers, parents, siblings, friends and other family members. Download their calendar of events at www.topazcommunity.co.uk
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THE KENT CARERS EMERGENCY CARD provides peace of mind for carers when they are away from the person they care for. The card enables immediate access to pre-arranged planned care. Carers will be issued with a credit-sized card that has a unique reference number and emergency phone number on it which identifies that they care for someone. In an emergency situation a person telephones the number on the card and quotes the registration number. The call is received by KCC 24 hour contact centre staff who can then access the carers pre-arranged emergency plan and put it into action. The service is free and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
If you would like to receive more information and an application form to join the scheme please email us at |
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CARERS ARE A PRIORITY FOR THE NHS (See Carers' health - a public health issue page 53) The new national on-line service for cares 'CARERS DIRECT' is now live on the NHS Choices website www.nhs.uk/carersdirect |
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| THE NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR CARERS | |
| The long-awaited National Strategy for Carers
was published on 10th June 2008, signed by seven Government departments. In total the Strategy commits £255 million to create additional support for carers. It also sets out medium and long-term plans aimed at transforming the way that society treats carers.
Carers UK would be very interested to hear your views on the Strategy, how you think it will be implemented and what you feel are the major gaps. Please email policy@carersuk.org with any comments. Download Dept of Health Impact Assessment Download Department of Works and Pensions Impact Assessment The carers' strategy sets out the Government's short-term agenda and long-term vision for the future care and support of carers New commitments in the carers’ strategy include: £150 million towards planned short breaks for carers; £38 million towards supporting carers to enter or re-enter the job market and £6 million towards improving support for young carers. Other schemes include the piloting of annual health checks for carers to help them stay well and training for GPs to recognise and support carers. A more integrated and personalised support service for carers will be offered through easily accessible information, targeted training for key professionals to support carers, and pilots to examine how the NHS can better support carers. Carers UK June 2008 |
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