Life Events - Caring For Someone

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• A-Z of Benefits & Tax Credits April 2011 - April 2012 - This is a brief description of the most common benefits, pensions and tax credits. The social security and tax credit system is complicated and can change, so please contact the Welfare Rights Helpline if you need information and advice on 0800 169...
• Adult Placement Scheme - 1. I am an adult with a learning disability, visual or sensory impairment, or a mental illness. What would an Adult Placement mean for me?An adult placement can be:somewhere to livesomewhere to stay for a short breaksomewhere to go for...
• Adult Services - CSSIW Inspection – 20 February to 2 March 2012The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) will be inspecting adult social care services in Denbighshire between 20 February and 2 March. The inspectors will look in some detail at the...
• Carer’s Emergency Card - This is a card that carers carry with them at all times. If a carer has an accident or sudden illness, the card alerts the emergency services that there is someone at home who can’t manage without help. Carers can also use this service if they are...
• Carer's Needs Assessments - A carer’s needs assessment looks at what you need to help you look after the person you are caring for. It is not an assessment of your ability to provide care. It could give you the chance to think about what help you need in order to make your...
• Carers - Who is a carer?Carers are people who look after family members or friends who need care, help or support. Carers can be:• adults caring for other adults • parents caring for ill or disabled children, or• young carers who care for another...
• Children and Family Service - Contact Us - If you would like further information about our services, or you would like to request help from the Children and Family Service please contact our First Contact Team on: - First Contact Team64 Brighton RoadRhylDenbighshireLL18 3HN...
• Children and Family Services - Denbighshire’s Children and Family Service’s primary purpose is to carry out a range of statutory duties towards children and their families. These duties include promoting the child’s welfare, health and protection; so our direct work...
• Day-care Sponsorship - A day-care sponsorship can provide the child with opportunities to develop social skills and offers the carers the chance to have a break. Following an assessment, the team may be able to help with day-care fees....
• Direct Payments - Adult Services - Direct payment is a cash payment to allow you to buy your own support instead of Social Services providing it for you. Following your Community Care Assessment, or reassessment, you can now choose whether to have services provided directly by...
• Direct Payments - Children with Disabilities - Direct Payments are cash payments from Social Services to help you pay for services that the child has been assessed as needing. Parents and carers can decide how the money needs of the child will be met, by whom, and at a time that best suits the...
• Health and well-being of carers - Getting support from your GP practiceBeing a carer can often have an effect on your own health, and it is a well-documented fact that carers often put the needs of the person they care for before their own health needs. It is important that...
• Health and Wellbeing - Do you think you may be a bit out of shape? Is the closest you do to exercise heaving yourself out of bed or reaching for the remote? Do you perhaps drink a little too much, smoke too much or eat the wrong things? Want to do something about...
• Health, Social Care and Well-Being - 'Healthy Denbighshire', the second Health, Social Care & Well-Being Strategy for the entire County is now available online. The strategy has been developed by the Denbighshire Health, Social Care & Well-Being Partnership and outlines the plans for...
• Help for carers - There is a lot of help and advice available for carers, but knowing what is out there and where to look for it is not always easy. This section gives an outline of just some of the help that is available. If you would like to know more about...
• Help with finances - Carers Allowance (CA)CA is the main state benefit for people who spend a minimum of 35 hours a week caring for a person who receives Disability Living Allowance (the care component, at the middle or higher rate), Attendance Allowance or Constant...
• HIV / AIDS - The services provided by the Social Work Service are:assessment for community care services e.g. personal care and domestic needs arranging packages of care to meet assessed needs information about other sources of help e.g. voluntary...
• Home Library Service - Are you unable to visit your local Library due to illness or disability?The Library Service can bring a selection of materials to your home free of charge once a month including:• Books• Audio Books• Large Print Books• CDs• Videos /...
• Hospital Social Work - A social work service for the children’s wards at Glan Clwyd Hospital is available to children and their families who are hospital in-patients, or attending out-patients. They can be contacted on:Tel: 01745 534144Fax: 01745 534791...
• Housing Benefit - Housing Benefit is a benefit available to people on a low income who are renting their homes to help them to afford to pay the rent.The benefit can be paid to the person claiming it or direct to the landlord of the property....

• Caring About Carers - In Caring about Carers the Government made a commitment to provide details of the services or benefits affecting carers on the Internet. We hope that this site will be useful to carers, to carers' workers and voluntary organisations and others
• Michael Phillips care agency - Founded in 1996, Michael Phillips Care Agency Ltd, based in Rhyl, specialises in the provision of quality domiciliary home care services in your local community.  We operate to high standards and have achieved national recognition in both the management and delivery of home care services.
• The Expert Patients Programme (EPP) - The Expert Patients Programme (EPP) is a self-management course for people living with any long-term health condition. This chronic disease self-management course was developed in the USA and is now being run in the UK and many other countries around the world. When the chronic disease self-management course is run by the NHS in the UK, it is known as the Expert Patients Programme.