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Health & Social Care
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- This Carers Week, Torfaen Council will be hosting a series of events to thank adult and young carers for the work they do.
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- More than 170 foster carers from across Torfaen have been celebrated for their outstanding work in transforming the lives of children in their care.
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- Young people who spent time in local authority foster care have said thank you to their foster carers as part of Foster Care Fortnight.
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- Today, Torfaen council have started speaking with residents and their families living in several residential and nursing homes in the borough in response to a letter from care providers demanding extra payments for care
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- Lorna and Jason have discovered working full time and having children are not barriers to becoming full-time foster carers.
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- This Foster Care Fortnight TM, 15 - 28 May, The Fostering Network, the UK's leading fostering charity, and local authority fostering services in Wales are calling on the wider business community to lend their support and make it easier for their employees to combine fostering and working.
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- A new support group is providing a welcoming space and activities for people living with dementia, memory loss and their carers.
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- A bus dedicated to helping people interested in working in the care sector set off from Cwmbran today.
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- A new recruitment bus that looks to help people take their first steps into the social care sector, is touring Gwent this year.
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- Next week, councillors on the Healthier Communities committee will scrutinise the wicked issues creating a national and local housing crisis and review the actions of the council and partners to address the fallout.
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- A series of surgeries for Torfaen residents have been set up during March to provide a range of information, advice and guidance on the increasing problem of mould and damp in homes.
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- In a new series of vlogs, foster carers from across Wales have come together to explore the reasons, life experiences and changes that led to them becoming carers.
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- Torfaen Council's assistive technology team is looking for volunteers to trial a new device aimed at helping to calm and comfort people living with dementia.
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- Residents living in care settings across Torfaen are trialling new technology which can help to reduce falls and stimulate movement and interaction.
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- A Torfaen foster carer has received a prestigious award from the Fostering Network for her contribution to fostering.
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- This week, Torfaen Council has received a Welsh Government grant of £35,132 to support the creation of Warm Hubs in the borough.
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- More than 200 young carers from across Torfaen have signed up to a new ID card that helps to make them more visible and valued in their communities.
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- Unpaid carers struggling with the cost of living can apply for a new grant of up to £500 to help with essential items.
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- Next week, Torfaen Council is hosting a series of roadshows across the borough to support unpaid carers concerned about the rising cost of living.
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- With around 550 foster carers needed each year in Wales, a one-off recruitment event looks to inspire a new generation of carers later this month.
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- The Torfaen Santa Appeal 2022 will open for donations at the beginning of next month.
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- More than 200 people attended a wellbeing event at the Congress Theatre today in celebration of World Mental Health Day.
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- On Monday, Torfaen Council's Community Connectors team will be marking World Mental Health Day by holding a free wellbeing day at the Congress Theatre.
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- A friendship bench outside a new community wellbeing hub is getting people talking.
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- Nearly 190 young carers in Torfaen have signed up for a national ID card, allowing them to be more visible within their communities.
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- A flower garden for unpaid carers in Torfaen has become the latest site where wildflowers are encouraged to grow in the borough.
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- Around 40 unpaid carers have received help and advice about the rising cost of living as part of a series of Carers Week roadshows.
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- As part of Carers Week next week, Torfaen Council is organising a series of roadshows for unpaid carers concerned about the rising cost of living.
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- The Welsh Government is consulting on changes to the Mental Capacity Act and how they will be applied.
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- Unpaid carers in Torfaen, who were in receipt of Carers Allowance on 31 March 2022, can now apply for a one-off £500 payment.
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- To celebrate Foster Care Fortnight 2022, Torfaen Council is running a sunflower themed fostering competition for local children to get creatively involved in.
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- Residents are being asked to plant sunflower seeds in their gardens this spring to celebrate local foster carers, as part of the annual Foster Care Fortnight campaign.
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- Parkinson's Awareness Week kicks off on Monday and to mark the occasion, residents who suffer from the illness, are invited to attend a free local support group.
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- Getting a job with Torfaen Council's social care teams can be the start of a long and varied career.
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- Children and young people with vision impairments will be given more support to live and learn independently, thanks to the introduction of a new curriculum framework.
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- If you've ever fancied a career in social care, then sign up for Torfaen Council's first ever virtual social care recruitment day.
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- Civic centre will be lit green next week to support Kidney Cancer Awareness Week.
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- Torfaen Council's Community Meals is helping older residents remain in their own homes by providing valuable wellness checks.
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- Currently all our health and social care services in Gwent are under massive pressure due to staff absence from Covid-19, especially our domiciliary care services and care home providers.
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- Channel Four Bake Off finalist Jon Jenkins has spoken about becoming a foster carer to help support a new campaign.
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- The Play Service has been busy over the festive season providing fun filled activities to families in Torfaen.
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- Around 60 children with visual impairments have been given packs filled with sensory toys and equipment so they can take part in special playgroup sessions at home.
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- Torfaen council is writing to everyone in the borough receiving domiciliary care services and appealed for support to help fill a shortfall in care required this month
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- More than 800 gifts have been donated to this year's Torfaen Santa Appeal.
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- An event to celebrate and support carers in Torfaen is being organised to mark Carers' Rights Day next week.
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- The Santa Appeal, run by Torfaen Social Services, gives people the chance to donate gifts to children and young people who would otherwise miss out at Christmas time.
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- The winner of the Ty Glas y Dorlan photography competition has been chosen.
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- Next week WeCare Wales will be shining a light on what it's like to work in the social care, children's and early years sectors.
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- Several life-size front doors have been unveiled outside the Senedd in Cardiff Bay, highlighting those who have opened their homes to foster children in Wales.
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- Public Health Wales is urging all eligible people in Wales to have their free NHS flu and COVID-19 booster vaccines as the NHS in Wales begins its biggest ever national winter vaccinations programme.
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- Foster Wales Torfaen is part of a new national campaign to recruit more local authority foster carers for local children.
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- Plans for a new multi-million-pound wellbeing hub have taken a major step forward.
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- A former care worker has launched her own business offering companionship care to the elderly, thanks to Torfaen Council's Communities for Work Plus programme.
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- We're running a photography competition entitled Views and Nature Around the Waterways of Torfaen.
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- People who receive home care services and their families are being asked to tell Torfaen Council about their experiences.
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- An appeal is being issued for the attendees of a school prom or graduation party held at the Cwrt Bleddyn hotel near Usk on Wednesday 11 August to get a PCR Covid-19 test.
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- Councils in Gwent are alerting residents who receive community health and social care to expect possible changes in their support because of high demand on services and staff shortages.
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- Torfaen Carer Support worker Louise Hook has won a Care Star award for the support she has provided to local carers during the last 15 months.
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- A thought-provoking new report, launched Wednesday 21st July, has looked at the breadth of wildlife in Gwent, recording the ecological successes and identifying those species most at risk...
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- Local Authority fostering services in Wales have today joined forces to become 'Foster Wales'.
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- This week we celebrate National Shared Lives - a programme, where people open their lives and homes up to help those in need of support.
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- Work has started on a new flower garden dedicated to all unpaid carers in Torfaen.
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- A pioneering scheme to support young carers in Torfaen is helping more than 100 youngsters.
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- Around 120 carers have been given extra help by Torfaen Council's social care teams during the coronavirus pandemic
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- Did you know that you can apply for a Lasting Power of Attorney at any age?
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- In Gwent during 'Dementia Action week' (17 – 23 May 2021), Torfaen Council would like to promote our part in the National Bevan Exemplar project, 'Get There Together'.
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- As part of Foster Care Fortnight, the Celtic Manor Resort generously offered two rounds of golf to Gwent's local authority foster carers.
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- As part of this years Foster Care Fortnight campaign, Torfaen Council have joined other local authority fostering teams across the Gwent region to host a regional Men Who Care Wellbeing Walk in Pontypool Park.
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- This week, nearly 200 bouquets have been hand-delivered to foster carers by Torfaen Council's adult social care team, as part of Foster Care Fortnight.
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- After five and a half months training council employee Alex Jones finally got the chance to put her mind and body to the test in a gruelling 24 hour ultramarathon, raising more than £4,700 for the Samaritans.
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- Torfaen Council is calling on community groups and organisations stirring from the restrictions of the pandemic to let people know they're back open.
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- Welsh artist Nathan Wyburn wants to shine a light on the work that Torfaen's foster carers do, as Pontypool Civic Centre will be lit up in orange this Foster Care Fortnight.
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- Today (Monday 10 May 2021)marks the launch of Mental Health Awareness Week, the UK's national week to raise awareness of mental health.
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- A Torfaen Council meal delivery service has seen demand for its service increase by almost a third over the past year.
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- After 18 months of planning and development by local authorities, Welsh Government and Carers Trust Wales, today (15 March 2021) a new Young Carers' National ID card scheme has been launched in Torfaen.
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- Torfaen's first Local Testing Site (LTS) has opened today (February 18) in the Old Mill Car Park on Trosnant Street, Pontypool.
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- Torfaen Council has progressed two projects aimed at finding innovative solutions to improve care for residents.
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