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
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
Currently, carers don’t have a legal right to receive support, although local authorities can provide support at their discretion. This means that access to assessment and the range of support on offer can vary considerably. The Care Act, which comes… Read More »The Care Act – what will this mean for us as family carers
We have met as a management team recently to begin to really explore where we want to be in the next five years. We know getting this right is going to take time and we have more meetings planned.