If you are caring for a vulnerable family member or friend during the coronavirus outbreak there is plenty of help and advice available that will support you in your caring role. The government has issued general advice for carers particularly about what to do if the person you’re caring for has symptoms. Liverpool Carers Centre … Read more
In LGBT+ Fostering and Adoption Week, the regional adoption agency Adoption in Merseyside (AiM) are looking for more adopters from the LGBT+ Community including single adopters and couples. The number of children looked after in England rose by 4 percent to 78,150 at 31 March 2019, however the number of adopters have decreased. Jenny Ness, … Read more
Liverpool is holding a series of events in support of a United Nations campaign to break down the wall of silence surrounding domestic violence. Domestic abuse is a crime that can affect anybody and reported incidents are on the rise. Merseyside Police received over 13,500 calls in 2018, high risk cases increased by 17 per … Read more
Organisations across Liverpool will be coming together next week to raise awareness of abuse against vulnerable adults. November 18-24 is National Safeguarding Adults Week, led by charity the Ann Craft Trust, and teams from Liverpool, as well as three other Merseyside boroughs, will be out and about answering questions about safeguarding and giving advice and … Read more
It’s Occupational Therapy week! For the next five days we’ll be celebrating our fantastic OTs who work with children and adults and explaining how their invaluable skills support people. Today, in our final piece for Occupational Therapy Week Faye Burke, OT team leader, tells us about the OT team’s personalised care pilot project that started … Read more
THE first Liverpool City Council-commissioned care home to be built in more than 25 years opens in Speke this week. The £8m Brushwood on South Parade is part of a commitment by the city council to meet the rising demand for dementia care services. It is the first local authority-built care home to open in … Read more
Kinship carers are being celebrated in Liverpool next week – and grandparents, relative or family friends bringing up someone else’s child are being urged to get involved. Kinship Carers Liverpool is the longest running and largest kinship care support group in the country, and established National Kinship Carers Week in Oct 2015 to raise awareness … Read more
We need to change the way we talk about ageing – that’s the pledge that Liverpool City Council will be making next week. On Tuesday 1 October, the UN’s International Day of Older Persons, Deputy Mayor of Liverpool Gary Millar will join other local authority leaders in signing an open letter committing the city to … Read more
People living with dementia and their carers can find out more about the condition and the support services available at next week’s Liverpool Dementia Information Day. Organised as part of World Alzheimer’s Month, the free event, on Wednesday 25 September, will see a packed programme of speakers at the Conference Centre at LACE, as well … Read more
A £5 million unit which will include specialist support for people who have suffered a stroke opens in Liverpool on Wednesday 10 July.
An event to launch the memoirs of Sir Bert Massie CBE DL, will be held in Liverpool Town Hall on 25th June. The event, which will be hosted by The Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson OBE, will pay tribute to the life and work of Sir Bert, Vice Chairman and long-standing Trustee of Local Solutions and a key figure in the disability rights movement.
A massive showcase of the support available for families of children with special educational needs in Liverpool is taking place on Wednesday 19 June. The “Local Offer LIVE” SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability) information event is happening at St George’s Hall on Lime Street from 12-8pm. A huge range of support services, projects and … Read more
Merseyside will be marking National Breastfeeding Week from Monday 17 June with a series of events organised by breastfeeding support workers across the area. The week will kick off with a walk organised by breastfeeding peer-support group Liverpool Community Bambis from St George’s Hall to Chavasse Park in Liverpool ONE at 11.30am which is open … Read more
Liverpool’s Youth Offending Service (YOS) has been rated as ‘good’ with some ‘outstanding’ areas following an official inspection.
PEOPLE in Liverpool can find out more about dementia at special sessions being held as part of Dementia Action Week 2019. To be hosted at Sedgemoor Hub, Liverpool City Council’s specialist dementia centre, two drop-in sessions are running on: • Tuesday 21 May at 1pm, organised by the Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friends • Thursday 23 … Read more
How a Liverpool teenager’s life was transformed by her foster family at the age of 16 is the subject of a two minute film in a new campaign to promote foster carers.
NEARLY 300 hundred people found safety and shelter at Liverpool City Council’s rough sleeper hub Labre House during March.
The ‘great work’ taking place at Europe’s first dedicated 5G health and social care pilot, Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care, has been recognised with an extra year’s funding. The project will receive £1.48 million (£0.94M in government funding, bringing the total DCMS funding to £4.9M, and also an additional £0.54 million from consortium partners.) … Read more
Liverpool City Council is set to increase the rates paid to the care sector, to help with the recruitment and retention of staff.
An additional 160 staff are to be recruited by Liverpool City Council to cut the caseload of children’s social workers by up to half.