Here are links to information about continuing healthcare as recetnly discussed on the PCAN closed Facebook Group:
Some info from legal expert and academic Luke Clements about transitioning from children’s NHS healthcare funding to Adult Continuing Healthcare funding: http://www.lukeclements.co.uk/nhs-continuing-healthcare-chc-and-transitions-into-adulthood/
NHS continuing care for children:
General page about NHS Continuing healthcare:
Please come and join us on Friday 15th November to talk to us about behaviour issues you are dealing with at home. This is an opportunity for you to tell senior people in Kirklees Council about how difficult it can be to manage the behaviour of your child/children with additional needs and what help needs to be in place. We know that families are struggling and there are very few places to get the right help at the right time. PCAN has been telling the Council for years that lack of support with behaviour is a major issues for families and is working alongside the Council to improve help and support for families in Kirklees.
When: Friday 15th November 10 am to 1.30 pm
Where: The Huddersfield Mission, 3-13 Lord St, Huddersfield HD1 1QA
It’s also a chance to have a nice lunch and chat to other parents.
As we are a registered charity, we do have to hold an Annual General Meeting so we will do this over lunch.
Please book a place here so we can order enough food!!
Look forward to seeing you soon,
Regards
The PCAN Team
Here at Northorpe Hall we are developing an ASC family project. As part of the core offers to families we are offering the opportunity to be trained as Cygnet practitioners, more information below on the training including training dates.
We are able to offer 3 parent places for any parent interested in becoming a Northorpe Hall volunteer (more info of what is involved below) to support delivering parent information from Northorpe Hall; this will include delivery of the Cygnet programme. The aim will be for you to be part of a team delivering Cygnet on a rolling programme over a year for families living with ASC (including weekends and evenings as well as in the day time through the week). More information will be available as part of the recruitment process of becoming a volunteer. If you are interested please contact Colette Hampson on colette.hampson@northorpehall.co.uk
The dates for the Cygnet practitioner training will be from November 7th for 6 weeks 12.30 – 2.30 pm, the last session being on December 12th. You would have to commit to all the 6 sessions.
The sessions will take place on the:
7th November at Empire House Wakefield Rd, Dewsbury WF12 8DJ
14th November at Empire House Wakefield Rd, Dewsbury WF12 8DJ
21st November, the barn Northorpe hall 53 Northorpe Ln, Mirfield WF14 0QL
28th November, at Empire House Wakefield Rd, Dewsbury WF12 8DJ
5th December the barn Northorpe hall 53 Northorpe Ln, Mirfield WF14 0QL
12th December the barn Northorpe hall 53 Northorpe Ln, Mirfield WF14 0QL
Please note the different venues
Along with the training we ask that as a volunteer you will need to sign up as a Northorpe hall Volunteer.
This will involve:
Being on the Northorpe Hall database to include personal details
Chat with the ASC Family worker on what you want and what Northorpe Hall has to offer
Ask that you fill in an application form, this will ask for two referees, if possible to be someone who has known you for two years and is a non-family member
As we seek references we will ask, that you undergo a DBS (disclosure barring service)
Access to Induction, receiving a volunteer handbook and training here at Northorpe Hall, involving confidentiality, boundaries, safeguarding, and disclosures. (This will take about an hour).
Looking at your availability, start dates etc
In return you will benefit from volunteering for an organisation that has a Volunteering Kirklees quality assurance award, regular support and supervision, skills you can include in your CV, meet new people and support parents in Kirklees with your expertise.
Northorpe Hall will also pay any out of pocket expenses in relation to volunteering for any of the projects here.
We look forward to hearing from you
Contact are having a Q&A session on their facebook page on Wed 9th Oct 2-5.
They also have lots of useful information on their website
More details and the link is here
Workshops for parents and carers include ASC awareness, Introduction to children and young people’s mental health, Introduction to self-harm, the Teenage Brain, understanding behaviour as communication.
Workshops for young people include Breathing and relaxation, cooling down hot thoughts, exam anxiety, general anxiety.
Hi everyone, please see below information we have just received from the CCG regarding the changes to the current wheelchair services provision, and ongoing service user and carer involvement in the development of the new services. There is a commitment to work alongside services users and carers now so that the service is working in everyone’s best interests and we don’t have a repeat of what happened last time.
Drop-in Session for Wheelchair Service Users
Greater Huddersfield and North Kirklees CCGs are pleased to share details of the first drop-in session for wheelchair service users being held by the new provider for Calderdale and Kirklees: Ross Care, in partnership with Blatchford.
Carers, professionals and other stakeholders are also welcome at the session, which is being held so that you can meet the new people behind the service from Ross Care & Blatchford and raise questions about what this new provider means for you, your family and, carers.
The event takes place on 15 October 2019, from 12:00pm-6:00pm at:
Wheelchair Service Centre Unit G7, Navigation Close
Lowfields Business Park
Elland
HX5 9HB
No prior registration is needed so please come and visit the new team.
The contract with Opcare Limited to provide the Posture & Mobility (Wheelchairs) Service in Calderdale and Kirklees will end on Monday 30th September 2019.
Following a formal procurement process, a new contract has been agreed with Ross Care in partnership with Blatchford. This begins on Tuesday 1st October 2019.
Because of the move from one provider (Opcare Limited) to another (Ross Care & Blatchford), waiting times may be longer than we would like whilst the new service provider gets up and running, and they work with service users currently in the service. We’re sorry about this and assure everyone that the CCGs and Ross Care & Blatchford will do all that we can to reduce waiting times as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Ross Care will prioritise urgent cases or cases where there is potential for patient harm should there be a delay
Ross Care and the CCGs are, and will continue, to work closely together to establish the service, monitor performance and provide opportunities for service users, carers, families and other key stakeholders to be involved in shaping the new service.
If anyone has concerns or complaints, we always recommend that people go to the provider first, as this can result in a quicker response and resolution of any technical or medical aspects of the concern or complaint.
Until 1 October 2019, questions or complaints about the current service should be directed to Opcare: https://www.opcare.co.uk/nhs-clinic-locations/calderdale-and-north-kirklees/
If you are not satisfied with any responses received from the provider, complaints can be made to NHS Calderdale CCG, NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG or NHS North Kirklees CCG via the CCGs’ Complaints Teams.
This is short notice so act quick!
Please Contact them directly so they can email you an application form.
Compass bridge have just sent us the details of their holiday activities.
We have received confirmation that we can go ahead with the activities at Compass Bridge for the last two weeks of the Summer Holiday. We are aware this is very short notice but we hope that it may be of interest to you. Attached is the Application Form and Booking Form. If you are interested in your child attending it is important that these are completed and returned to Compass Bridge by Tuesday 20th August, we will then be in touch with you to advise if we can grant your child a place. If you do not receive a call then please assume your have not been successful at this time. PLEASE NOTE: It is important that the forms are completed clearly and fully, if not, it may result in your child not being granted a place as we will not have time to chase any queries or outstanding questions. I can be contacted on my mobile – 07714474741 (Lorraine Roe) Thank you Compass Bridge Limited Bridgefield Mill Elland Halifax HX5 0SG 01422 311299 compassbridge@hotmail.co.uk
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