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What is the Warm Home Discount Scheme? If you are on a low income, you may qualify for the Warm Home Discount Scheme. This gives a rebate to pensioners on low incomes and some other customers on low incomes. The rebate is £130 on your electricity bill for winter 2012 -2013. The Warm Home Discount … Read more

10 December, 2012 – Department of Health Website   The government has today published its final report into the events at Winterbourne View Hospital and has set out a programme of action to transform services so that vulnerable people no longer live inappropriately in hospitals and are cared for in line with best practice.   … Read more

On Monday 3 December we attended the celebrations to recognise achievements by and in support of local disabled people as part of the International Day of People with a Disability. Dot Ashton (Advocacy Manager) with Graham Barker, KPAC who co-sponsored the evening. Dots team of volunteer advocates was nominated for the Volunteer of the Year … Read more

Monday 3 December was the International Day of People with Disability and this year’s main theme was ‘Removing barriers to create an inclusive and accessible society for all’. Over one billion people, or approximately 15 per cent of the world’s population, live with some form of disability. These people – “the world’s largest minority”, often … Read more

KDC has identified its 3 priority areas for improving its services towards making personalised, community-based support really happen for the people of Knowsley. We have published our Action Plan on the Making it Real website and will be keeping track of our progress over the next few months. Take a look at our plans here. … Read more

Merseyside Police invite local residents to a free Property registration & marking event at Asda, Huyton Lane (Upper Foyer Entrance) on:- Tuesday 18th December 2012 1pm to 8pm Police Officers will be on hand to register and offer security marking for your valuable Christmas presents such as Bikes, Mobile Phones, Laptops, TV’s, Games Consoles, MP3 … Read more

Individual employers (people who directly employ their care or support staff) are now able to apply for grant funding directly from Skills for Care to support the full costs of training and development for themselves and their personal assistants. The Workforce Development Fund (WDF) for individual employers is funding from the Department of Health disbursed … Read more

Headway Liverpool have published their programme for January to August 2013 for people with acquired brain injury, their families and carers. Headway holds regular drop-in sessions usually on the fourth Wednesday of every month from 2.30 until 4.30 p.m. at The Bronte Centre, Trowbridge Street, Liverpool, L3 5BN offering advice information and activities. For more … Read more

KHT have produced an informative video to find out about how you may be affected by the Government changes to how the benefit system works. There is a lot to take in but the information on their video and on their Welfare Reform help pages will give you a good start to understanding the changes which … Read more