Life Events - Caring For Someone

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• Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit - The Benefits Department is responsible for calculating customer's entitlement to Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit and for promoting the availability of these benefits. Both benefits are available to people on low income.Housing...
• Learning Development Team - The Learning Development Team is a team of specialist teaching and support staff working in Denbighshire Primary schools. Each member of the team has additional qualifications and extensive experience in working with pupils with specific and general...
• Learning Development Team - The Learning Development Team is a team of specialist teaching and support staff working in Denbighshire Primary schools. Each member of the team has additional qualifications and extensive experience in working with pupils with specific and general...
• Learning Disabilities - This information describes the range of services that may be provided for people with a learning disability (mental handicap) and their families in Denbighshire. The aim of all the agencies described is to work together to provide services that meet...
• Looked after Children - A guide for Parents - What does being accommodated mean? Being accommodated means that Social Services will provide somewhere for your child to live for more that 24 hours. It is a voluntary agreement between you and Social Services.Why would this happen?It would...
• Mental Health - The teams are made up of a range of professionals such as Social Workers, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Psychologist and Support Workers. They provide advice and support to people suffering from mental illness and their...
• Older People - What Kind of Help is Available? Social Services may provide a range of support for people over the age of 65 and their carers. The help available includes:Help & Advice with Practical Tasks - This includes personal care, eg. help in getting up...
• Other services that are available - Other services that are availableFamily Group ConferencesFrom time to time, all families have problems. Sometimes, families can sort these out with help from relatives and friends, but some families may need help from other people. Family...
• Physical Disabilities - What kind of help is available? Social Services may provide a range of support for people with a physical disability and their carers. The help available includes:Equipment to Make life Easier - There is a range of equipment available to help...
• Private Fostering - Are you looking after a child, but you're not a relative or legal guardian? If you are, you're not alone. Private fostering - let Children's Services know. It is estimated more than 12,000 children in Wales and England are privately...
• Respite Care - Respite care gives parents and carers of children with disabilities a break from caring. There are experienced foster carers who can provide respite care, including overnight stays. There is also access to a residential respite unit called Tir Na...
• Services for Children in Need and their Families - Most families will experience problems at some time. Sometimes these difficulties can be overwhelming and parents will need all the support they can get. We will help families with ‘children in need’ in line with The Children Act 1989. ...
• Services for Children with Disabilities - Who are the children with disabilities team? The team is made up of Social Workers, Family Support Workers and Occupational Therapists. The team aims to:Provide a service to enable children to live life to the full within their own...
• Social Care and Health - As a Council, we have a responsibility to support, care and protect people in the community. In the County we have people with a wide range of health and social care needs. These range from elderly people leaving hospital to families in crisis,...
• Social Services - We provide and arrange many different services for a wide range of people, including:children and families;disabled people;people with learning disabilities;elderly people;people with mental-health problems;people who are blind,...
• Standards For Learning Disabilities - Social Services Values respect the dignity and worth of each individual take into account the choices and preferences of individuals, whenever possible behave in a way that counteracts discrimination respect the preferred language of...
• Standards for Mental Health - Social Services ValuesRespect the dignity and worth of each individual;Take into account the choices and preferences of individuals, whenever possible;Behave in a way that counteracts discrimination;Respect the preferred language of...
• Support Work - Support workers offer one-to-one support to children with disabilities. They help children take part in leisure and social activities as agreed by the child’s parents or carers, and their social worker. This can provide some respite to the child’s...
• Transitional Planning - The team works with adults services to produce clear plans for the young person’s move to receive support from adult’s services....
• Visual Impairment - Loss of vision, whether partial or total, can create many problems for individuals and their families. Today, there is a wide range of services for visually impaired people and their carers. What Kind of Help is Available? RegistrationThe...

• 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.