Respite Care News
Carers' Action Plan for the States of Guernsey
Invitation for informal/ unpaid carers to give their views to inform a Carers Action Plan for the States of Guernsey and to attend an Engagement Event on Thursday 15th February 5.30 – 7.30pm at Les Cotils, Harry Bound Room In [...]
Longer Working Lives Policy Letter
Just to advise that the Longer Working Lives Policy Letter was submitted to the Greffe today and is available here (the date of the States Debate at which it will be considered is yet to be confirmed): https://gov.gg/article/162603/Longer-Working-Lives Our media release [...]
Carers Guernsey Report
The Guernsey Community Foundation (GCF) held a stakeholders meeting to launch the Carers Guernsey report and provide an update on their progress. The report and slide deck of the evening can be found below: Carers stakeholder meeting 31 05 17 [...]
Amendment is lost, but delays are in doubt
HSSD's bid to have £1.35m of its lost budget reinstated was lost by 18 votes to 29 in the Assembly yesterday. At the time, we assumed that meant that delays to the adult learning disability respite care project would now [...]
Improvements to respite care under threat
It seems that getting something through the States just isn't enough anymore. As reported in Saturday's Press, HSSD is threatening to postpone the introduction of the Adult Learning Disability Respite Care project until 2013, if not beyond. This project was [...]
Step forward for Learning Disability respite care
Yesterday, after a very short debate that was slipped in right at the end of the day, the States approved the full list of new service bids in the 2011 States Strategic Plan. Amongst the nine services approved was the [...]
Guernsey commissions Disability Needs Survey
The Policy Council of the States of Guernsey is commissioning a study into the needs of disabled islanders. An 'invitation to tender' will be advertised this week to attract research companies who are interested in bidding for the [...]
GDA investigates respite care
Respite care is an essential part of the support needed to enable a disabled person to continue to live at home, being cared for by their own family. A short break of a few hours or a few days protects [...]