Category: Adult social care

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Fuel Poverty Awareness Day: support on hand for those suffering from fuel poverty

27/11/2020

Shropshire Council are today (Friday 27 November 2020) taking part in a national campaign to raise awareness and highlight the support available…

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Alcohol Awareness Week: Speaking up about alcohol and mental health

17/11/2020
Alcohol Awareness Week graphic

It’s Alcohol Awareness Week (until Sunday 22 November 2020), a week when Alcohol Change UK aims to get people thinking and talking…

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Coronavirus: Lockdown – unpaid carers are being reminded there is still help and support out there

17/11/2020
Crossroads Together logo

Unpaid carers across Shropshire are being reminded of the many types of help and advice available to them, particularly as lockdown restrictions…

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News from our partners: How is home care working in Shropshire?

16/11/2020
Healthwatch Shropshire

News from our partners Healthwatch Shropshire Home care (also known as domiciliary care) is often seen as the ‘front line’ of social…

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Winter Support Service launches

13/11/2020
WIPS befriending volunteer

A Winter Support Service has been launched to help vulnerable, and potentially vulnerable, Shropshire residents during the winter months. Commissioned by Shropshire…

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Safeguarding Partnership encourages residents to remain vigilant in light of UK’s terrorism alert

12/11/2020

                        Shropshire Safeguarding Community Partnership are encouraging people to remain vigilant…

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Celebrating National Care Leavers Week 2020

28/10/2020
Holly Davies and her son Jay

Shropshire Council is supporting National Care Leavers Week 2020 (running until Sunday 1 November) by showcasing and celebrating the successes of care…

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News from our partners: Allied Healthcare Professions Day celebrated across healthcare system

13/10/2020
NHS logo

News from our partners Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) Healthcare providers for Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid-Wales have come…

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News from our partners: Taking Part gains new advocacy Quality Performance Mark

13/10/2020
An adult receiving social care

News from our partners Taking Part (a Shrewsbury charity) Taking Part has been awarded the Advocacy Quality Performance Mark (QPM) from the…

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World Homeless Day: Supporting rough sleepers in the coming winter months

10/10/2020
graphic re World Homeless Day 2020

To mark World Homeless Day (Saturday 10 October 2020), we’ve been raising awareness of the work being undertaken to help eliminate homelessness across…

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