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'Help at Hand' a new mobile care service
from O2 Health

'Help at Hand' is a new personalised mobile care service from O2 Health that you connect to with a specially designed handset to get the help you need, when you need it, 24hrs/7 days a week.
The service is available (with a 10% discount offer) through the Carers Trust website [here].

'Help at Hand' could be for you if you're getting older, have a long term illness to manage or want the confidence to get out and about. The service comes with a special handset (£99) and a subscription charge of £20 per month. Some of the features offered are a Support Button allowing the user to contact a trained support team; a Fall Detector Sensor - alerts the centre if the user has a fall; a GPS Location Service - the user can be located easily and Safe Zone Settings - can be set to alert the centre if the user leaves a defined area.
Find out more about 'Help at Hand' at the Carers Trust website [here].

Primary Care Research Feedback Meeting Mental Health Research Network North East

Mental Health Research Network North East is holding a meeting at York Hilton on Wednesday 19th June at 12.00 - 3.00pm.
The meeting will bring together service users, carers, academics and professionals to review the results of past Primary Care studies supported by MHRN North East. Registration is free, lunch and refreshments is provided and travel costs for service users and carers within the North East will be reimbursed. Download a leaflet about the meeting [here]

Health and Social Care in North Yorkshire
Have your Say at a Healthwatch session!

Healthwatch North Yorkshire is gathering speed and will begin to run local regular drop in sessions in local libraries throughout the county from the 3rd June 2013.

We are running these sessions to gather grass roots evidence from local communities, local people, service users and patients regarding their views, experiences, issues and evidence of good practice about health and social care services in their area. This will then be fed back to service providers and commissioners to help shape and influence these services.
Sessions will be held at libraries throughout the Scarborough, Ryedale and Whitby area. Download a Healthwatch date sheet [here].

Focus Carer Newsletter - Summer Edition
Download your pdf copy here!

The latest edition of 'Focus Carer', our information packed newsletter for carers is available now! You can download Focus Carer as a pdf
(see the link below) or call us on 01723 850155 for a paper copy. Focus Carer provides carers in the Ryedale, Scarborough and Whitby area with up-to-the-minute news, information and advice.

Download Focus Carer and find an archive of older editions [here] .

Young Adult Carers Events
June Calendar

Go to the Young Adult Carers page [here] to find our June Events Calendar.
If you are a carer (aged 18-35) and haven't noticed Young Adult Carers, do get in touch - we offer all sorts of advice, support and a busy and varied programme of activities throughout the year.
Contact us on 01723 850155 or email us at kath@carersresource.net
Find our Events Calendar [here]

Supporting Carers to Care

A one day workshop at Scarborough Hospital providing training and support to carers

York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is offering carers in the Scarborough locality a one day workshop delivered by qualified and experienced staff. This will provide you with the training and support to help look after your loved ones in your own home.

The workshop will be on Thursday 27 June 2013, 10.45am - 3.00pm at Room S29, Scarborough Post Graduate Centre, Scarborough Hospital. To book a place contact Trish Gerard on 01723 342694
or email trish.gerard@york.nhs.uk - Download a leaflet pdf [here].

Funding success...

We have been successful in three funding applications recently and are happy to acknowledge assistance from The Woodroffe Benton Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation and Lloyds TSB. Their support is much appreciated and will help us to continue to support Carers in Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale.

Carers Holidays

The Carers’ Support Centre provides good value holidays for carers. If you look after someone who could not manage without your help, and the care that you provide is unpaid, you can book a carer's holiday.

The holidays are designed for carers and their families to have an affordable break. They are for carers, either alone or with the person they care for. Accommodation is offered in 2 and 3 bed caravans in Torbay and the Cotswolds with the 2 bed caravans offering accessible accommodation. Find out more [here]

Parliament is calling for carers’ views on social care reforms

A new online forum launched by Parliament is giving carers the opportunity to give feedback on what they think of plans to reform social care.

Following the publication of the draft Social Care Bill last year, the Government asked the public for their opinions on the reforms — and now a Parliamentary Committee is examining the draft Bill and wants to hear carers’ views before it makes recommendations to the Government.

If you are a carer, telling the Committee about the impact you think the Bill would have on your own situation will inform its eventual recommendations to the Government. Your views matter!
Find more about the consultation process (pdf) [here]
Visit the Draft Care and Support Bill forum [here]

Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is the new welfare benefit that will eventually replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
If you already receive DLA you will be sent some general information in February. You don’t need to do anything at that stage.

From October, 2013 you may be asked to apply for PIP, rather than DLA if

• you are on a fixed period DLA award and it is due for renewal.
  For example if you were awarded DLA for 3 years and the renewal date is December 2013, you will be asked to apply for PIP, rather than reapplying for DLA.
• you are a young person who has received DLA as a child and you will turn 16 after October 2013. When the child DLA ends, you will need to claim PIP.
• you report a change in your condition. For example if your condition improves or deteriorates you will be reassessed under the new system and if eligible will be awarded PIP instead.

There will be no new claims for DLA after June 2013. Any new claims after June 2013 will be for PIP. If you are currently claiming DLA and your support and care needs remain the same you will stay on DLA if you are not in any of the above categories. The Department for Work and Pensions who are responsible for processing benefits applications will begin transferring people already on DLA onto PIP from October 2015, starting with people over 65.
For more information, including the rates and claims process go to: https://www.gov.uk/pip/overview

'Side by Side'
A  Mind/Carers Resource service supporting carers in Whitby & Ryedale

Our carers befriending service, 'Side by Side', is now up and running in Ryedale and Whitby. We’ve been working with SWR Mind to develop this new service which is open to any carer that feels they would benefit from support in times of stress.
So whether this is having someone to go for a coffee with each week or some moral support and motivation to go the local gym get in touch. We’ll match you up with a volunteer befriender and help you decide what you want from them and for how long.

We’re always on the lookout for new volunteers.
So if you are in Ryedale area and you can spare a hour or so to really make a difference to a carer’s life we’d like to hear from you. Carers need befrienders for all sorts of reasons – get in touch and we’ll find a way of using your unique skills and experience to support someone who would very much welcome your company.

In return you get comprehensive training through Mind’s Volunteer Training programme, expenses and support throughout and valuable experience in supporting individuals. Contact Avril at Scarborough Ryedale Carers Resource: 01723 850155, or Emily at SWR Mind for further information 0845 603 4723

General Booklet for Carers Resource

Scarborough & Ryedale Carers Resource has an  information booklet available which describes the organisation and introduces our services. The booklet is available in both paper or ebook formats and can also be downloaded to your desktop from the online ebook.
Call us on 01723 850155 for a free copy of the booklet.
See the ebook version [here]