Following our survey to our members in April, one thing that jumped out at us was that some of what we are hearing from you, our families, now is the same thing families were saying when we worked with the… Read More »Recycling Barriers
As you may know we want to share blogs written by our families which shows what life is like. We know how tough it can be for our families when the summer ends and it’s time to go back to… Read More »Guest Blog – Back to School
On hearing the news yesterday around the changes to social care charging to come into play in 2023, we did a little happy dance assuming that as long as our family members had less than £20,000 they would not be… Read More »Following the government announcement – Changes to social care
The Essex Carers Network are joining up with Together Matters on a new program of work called family-to-family. We will shortly be running training for a small group of family carers using the thinking ahead and the I’m thinking ahead… Read More »Family-to-Family Planning for the Future
it may seem to you all that we have been very quiet and haven’t been making sure that policymakers in Essex are thinking about people with a learning disability and their families, please be assured that we have been very… Read More »Sorry We Have Been So Quiet!
We have been asked by Essex County Council to share the following with our families regarding carer support services in Essex: Essex Carers Service: What you need to know Who is the Essex Carers Service for? A carer is someone… Read More »New Provider of Carer Support Services in Essex
Following our update in October there has been some more correspondence between the network and Essex Mencap with Cllr Spence. We have collated all the correspondence into one chronological document: ECN Essex Mencap – social care charging – all correspondence… Read More »Social Care Charging
First of all on behalf of Essex Mencap and the Essex Carers Network, we would like to extend a big thank you to everyone who responded to our survey on the revised charging system introduced by the County Council.… Read More »Charging for Adult Social Care
Our meeting in March was a slightly overdue celebration of the networks 10th Birthday. We had a great meeting with invited speakers from The supporting carers In Essex partnership – Sonja Watts and The Hamelin Trust – Rachel Rafferty, who… Read More »Essex Carers Network celebrating 10th Birthday!
Today at our management meeting we remembered Thomas, a young man with down syndrome and autism, he didn’t live in Essex he was from Bradford and had been staying in a treatment and assessment unit in Sheffield. Thomas didn’t want… Read More »# I Am Thomas