SS/DS2/3

Material which appears to relate to raising public awareness of Social Services.

November 1991-June 1992

From: 1991 To: 1992

Includes - paper on creation of Charter for Carers; - launch of Carers Information pack; - Hypothermia Awareness day held 7 January 1992; - issues of ‘About Us’, newsletter created by the Kempston Centre, including pictures, poems, sports reports and accounts of visits; - details of boarding-out allowances; - minutes of meeting of the Publicity Group, 24 February 1992, and IPP Steering Group, 10 January 1992; - invitations to Sandra Fielding, Community Care Coordinator, to talk at various events; - list of provisional sites across the County of display boards for leaflets; - account of working life of Mary Bass on her retirement from Bedfordshire Social Services, March 1992; - ‘People First’ leaflet for Mental Health Care with letters regarding obtaining consent for the use of the photographs; - information about the changes to the Law regarding looking after children for childminders and playgroups; - delivery of wheelchair to Social Services user and subsequent misreporting in local newspaper; - press release on fund-raising event by The Befrienders, March 1992; - South Bedfordshire Staff Bulletin, April 1992; - National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) in Care from Bedfordshire Care Sector Consortium, Joint Assessment Centre; - alternative means of training and publicity, including computer graphics; - use of appropriate language to describe users of the Service; - Decentralised Task Force (Multi Media); - communicating with staff about community care issues; - notes of meeting with Bedfordshire Herald and Post to discuss possible feature on people with disabilities.

Former reference: SS/DS1/2/3

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SOCIAL & WELFARE PROVISION, publicity, Kempston Centre for People with a Mental Handicap, carer, CHILDREN, FAMILY, elderly people, disability, mental health, training