This is all a suggestion put forward by our local social services dept. Direct payments are to be used by a private care company to rent a property and provide carers. Our son is to use this as a base for day care and the occasional respite. It does seem a pretty convuluted way to go about things b...

This is a forum for unpaid carers - if we are lucky we get £53 carers allowance!

....... and the £53 (taxable) is for working/being on duty 24/7 .......

Getting back to the subject ..... Who remembers when the types of fruit and veg for sale in the greengrocers changed with seasons and you could only buy Hot Cross Buns at Easter

<t>Dimwit was a general term used to describe someone who had not grasped what the teacher had tried to tell them, often because they had not been paying attention to the teacher.<br/> Remember, these were the days when the terms 'Mongol', 'Cretin', 'Cripple' 'Spastic', 'Looney' et al were in common...

I remember when spelling 'you' as 'u' would have got a clip around the ear from the English teacher and the threat of being put in the 'remedial class' for dimwits You might like to re-phrase that. Vicky No re-phrasing required, as Stacey says LD children were not in mainstream schools (especially ...

I remember when spelling 'you' as 'u' would have got a clip around the ear from the English teacher and the threat of being put in the 'remedial class' for dimwits

http://www.carersuk.org/images/icon_biggrin.gif Recipe for 'fruit' Gin (or Vodka) to use up those spare bags of hedgerow fruit that have been sat at the bottom of the freezer and never made it into a pie ........ To each 1 lb of fruit (sloes/raspberries/blackberries/damsons or a mix of any/all of t...

http://dev.carersuk.org/j3/images/icon_biggrin.gif Not my own idea but my friend (in his 80's) has found that slipping a pair of the modern thin footballers shinguards down his socks (or keeping them in place with a bit of tubigrip) stops his shins from getting scraped and bruised by knocks on furn...

People I meet do seem pleased at how well the visit went, my Catholic friends are happy, my Anglican friends are happy so I'm happy http://www.carersuk.org/images/icon_biggrin.gif None of them seem much bothered about what Nick Clegg said, they're going to wait to see how things turn out and not tru...

Qualify request please....... is it for a 'Carer' ..... to work 24/7 for £53 (if they're lucky) or a 'Care Worker' working set hours (with time off/holidays/sick pay) for a legal set hourly rate?