Sentences with phrase «act as carers»

Community members who act as carers too need support from other community members as well as from special programs.

Young carers design Pyramid mural to celebrate town's heritage Children as young as eight who act as carers for their loved ones have seen their...

Most participants were married (n = 8, 66.66 %) and not currently employed (n = 14, 93.33 %), with three participants (23.07 %) acting as a carer for someone (other than their own children) and four (30.76 %) requiring the need for a carer themselves.

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I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Q: What are the outcomes of the changes to maternity care in the 1990s, allowing midwives to act as independent lead carers, for mothers and babies?

Lawyers acting on behalf of the secretary of state argued that unpaid carers should be treated as unemployed people who should make the same decisions as anyone else about living costs.

By getting involved in the week's activities you can help make people realise that diabetes is a serious condition, and that by acting early, lives can be improved for everyone affected by diabetes - including people with diabetes as well as their friends, family and carers.

The Act also provides protection from discrimination for people associated with a disabled person, such as a parent or carer.

Musician (Blues, country, Rock, semi classical [own compositions]-RRB- International writer (Poetry / short stories, paxbellumhathotmaledotcodotuk), International artist, I love animals and have a rescue German Shepherd I enjoy cooking for friends, gardening, I also act as a voluntary carer.

We actively campaign to: - Stop the commercialisation of our native wildlife, with present emphasis on the Kangaroo - Ban the use of 1080 poison - Ban the use of the steel jaw traps in Australia (we succeeded in having this banned in NSW and ACT in 1997)- Ban recreational hunting of all animals in NSW state forests and National Parks - Implement a no - kill policy in pounds and shelters to stop the killing of thousands of healthy cats and dogs every year - Lobby NSW councils to provide low cost desexing programs for low income carers - Abolish the farming of the Asiatic «Moon» bears in China cruelly milked for their bile - Abolish vivisection and the fur industry - Ban circuses with animals - Protect Australia's dingo by lobbying our government to recognise and protect it as a vulnerable species

Cornwall SENDIASS, Independent Support and the Parent Carer Council for Cornwall have a close working relationship, with seamless referrals between services and the manager of Parent Carer Council for Cornwall acting as lead Independent Supporter for the Independent Support Service also delivered by Disability Cornwall.

Like scaffolding used at a building site, parents and carers act as a scaffold to support children's learning by coming up with possible solutions to a problem together.

The school identifies and promotes community groups which may act as a source of support for parents and carers.

As an Accredited Foster Care and Adoption Agency, we can assist in all aspects of foster care and adoption, supporting foster carers and prospective adoptive parents to be able to act in the best interests of the child.

In 2010 the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) awarded Grandparents Victoria the contract to establish a kinship carer network across Victoria and to act as the peak group representing the views of kinship carers across Victoria.

Benefits described in Section 39 (1) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended) are as follows: Illness Benefit; Partial Capacity Benefit; Maternity Benefit; Health and Safety Benefit; Adoptive Benefit; Jobseeker's Benefit; Occupational Injuries Benefit comprising injury benefit, disablement benefit and death benefit; Carer's Benefit; State Pension Contributory; State Pension Transition; Invalidity Pension; Widow's, Widower's, Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension; Guardian's Payment Contributory; Bereavement Grant; Widowed or Surviving Civil Partner Grant paid by virtue of receipt of a benefit under Part 2 Treatment Benefit under Section 138 of the above Act;

Assistance described in Section 139 (1) of the Act Jobseeker's Allowance; Pre-retirement Allowance; State Pension (Non-Contributory); Blind Pension; Widow's, Widower's, Surviving Civil Partner's Non-Contributory Pension; Guardian's Payment Non-Contributory; Widowed or Surviving Civil Partner Grant paid by virtue of a one - parent family payment or a State Pension (Non-Contributory) as a Social Assistance measure; One - Parent Family Payment; Carer's Allowance; Domiciliary Care Allowance; Supplementary Welfare Allowance; Disability Allowance and Farm Assist

Specific requirements relating to placement planning for looked after children are contained in the Children Act 1989 regulations and guidance Vol 2, care planning, placement and case review (June 2015) which also contains as section on the delegation of authority to foster carers.