Hartlepool carers was formed in 1994 by a group of local carers who, because of their personal experiences, knew of the limited support that was available to them. As a result of their active campaigning and work with Hartlepool Voluntary development agency, three years joint finance funding was obtained in 1995 to establish on official carers support group.
Please go to our website www.hartlepoolcarers.org.uk for more information.
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Brown pledges social care reform for elderly and disabled
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers was invited today to hear the Prime Minister launch his review of a care and support system for England. Without radical reform, the government admits that the care...
12.05.08
More on: Brown pledges social care reform for elderly and disabled
Keeping it in the family
Approximately one million children live with a parent who is dependent on alcohol, according to a report published during Alcohol Awareness Week in April by Alcohol Concern and The Princess Royal Trust...
28.04.08
Counting carers
After pressure from carers and carers charities, this month has brought some important steps forward in the campaign to ensure that carers are counted in the next census. Carers were included for the...
15.04.08
Life with Parkinson's: many carers lack support
Launching Parkinson's Awareness week, the Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) has published the results of the largest ever survey of people with Parkinson's and their carers.
The research is based on...
07.04.08
CSIP report on High Impact Changes for Health and Social Care
In March 2008, David Behan, Director General of Social Care launched the Care Services Improvement Partnership’s (CSIP) publication on the High Impact Changes for Health and Social Care.
This is a collection...
24.03.08
Parents or Carers?
We are fed up of being called "Carers" by the authorities. We are Parents to our handicapped son who lives with us.
Being a Parent includes caring but it is a much, much wider definition than the institutionalised...
Chorlton - 16.05.08
dont know what it is?
i am a single grandmother careing for my 6 year old grandaughter she has been diagnosed with microcephaly (tiny brain syndrome) she has other disabilaties too but nobody has actually explained this...
polly 2 - 15.05.08
parents of autistic children
help can someone please explain to me why when our son asks for a drink and says he will be good, he then pours it all over the hearth, is it just to see us jump up and down or is it to prove that there...
evelyn - 05.05.08
fed up !!!!!!!!!!1
hi im mummy to hannah who has a heart problem she is 28 mths tube fed, and a handful, i live with my mum and things go well most of the time BUT her ideas and mine about the way i live my life are...
nicky4321 - 03.05.08
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