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Heather Wakefield

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Name: Heather Wakefield

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Concerns over 15-miniute care visits

SHORT care visits to the elderly lasting just 15 minutes continue to be used in Torbay despite concerns being raised over the practice.Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust is among the majority of authorities revealed to still commission ... [Published This is Devon - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Appointment, Heather Wakefield, Norman Lamb, Allotment

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Kindle

Shropshire's libraries 'are not under threat from e-reading'

The future of Shropshire’s libraries is bright – despite growing opposition from ebooks and television. That’s the view of the county’s head of libraries Michael Lewis.He inisists that libraries will not die because everyone has got a Kindle and predicted ... [Published Shropshire Star - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Michael Lewis, Kindle, Threat, Heather Wakefield

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Librarians fume as vital services go

Stretched librarians threw the book at the Con-Dem government today for jeopardising the future of school children and jobseekers by closing services in communities acros Britain.The Tory-led coalition's libraries' cull has already seen almost 4,000 jobs ... [Published Morning Star Online - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Fume, Heather Wakefield, Workers

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Bucks County Council Not Giving Enough Time To Elderly And Vulnerable People

Buckinghamshire County Council still comissions 15 minute home-care visits to elderly and vulnerable people, that's despite the government saying it's not long enough.The union UNISON have found that 73% of councils still comission the quarter-hour appointments, ... [Published Mix 96 - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Heather Wakefield, Appointment, Crisis

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

Short home care visits 'need to stop'

Health workers condemned councils across Britain today after finding that most still insist on fleeting 15-minute home care visits.Public-sector union Unison, which is holding its annual conference in Liverpool, said that a quarter of an hour is not enough ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Heather Wakefield, Liverpool (United Kingdom), Human Rights

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Unison: Council job cuts causing `irreversible' damage to local economies

Cuts to the local government workforce are causing irreversible economic damage on a scale akin to the industrial restructuring of the 1980s, according to research commissioned for the trade union Unison.The report from the Centre for Local Economic Studies ... [Published Localgov.co.uk - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Unison Trade Union, Heather Wakefield, Layoffs

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

15-minute care visits leave thousands facing neglect: Three-quarters of councils have failed to end practice

So called 'call cramming' leaving elderly people 'suffering' in own homesMany councils now buy in care from outside firms in blocks of 15 minutes Those in the greatest need are supposed to get longer, 30 or 45 minutesBut more are being fobbed off with ... [Published Mail Online UK - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Norman Lamb, Heather Wakefield, Workers, Daniel Martin

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Councils warn of service failures within three years

Although most councils have managed to achieve planned savings for 2012/13, the cracks are starting to show in local government, according to a new report. The Local State Were In survey, by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), shows that councils have made ... [Published Localgov.co.uk - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Heather Wakefield, Community Service

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Council leaders fear for frontline services

A survey of local authority leaders has shown that they believe cuts are increasingly hitting frontline services.Council leaders' confidence in protecting frontline services from budget cuts has fallen by 40 per cent in the last year, the Pricewaterhouse ... [Published Public Service - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Heather Wakefield, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Financial Crisis

First reported Jun 01 2013 - Updated Jun 01 2013 - 1 reports

Top tips: how to manage stress in local government jobs

How can you cope with the stresses and strains in your job? Read the advice of our experts and share your own ideas Chris Lecatsas-Lyus is a career counsellor and owner of Career WorkoutsSome simple ways to combat stress: Diet, exercise and relaxation ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Jun 01 2013]

Entities: Janet Dean, Heather Wakefield, Elizabeth Cotten, Resilience

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

Live discussion: managing stress in local government jobs

From budget cuts to redundancies, working in local government has its strains. Join us at midday on 29 May to discuss stress In February this year a survey by Unison of more than 14,000 local government workers showed that a massive 87% were struggling ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 28 2013]

Entities: Heather Wakefield, Social Work, Workers, Janet Dean

Quotes

Heather Wakefield, of Unison, said: "our home care system is in crisis. every day, elderly and vulnerable people suffer because they are not getting the care they need and deserve."

Concerns over 15-miniute care visits [Published This is Devon - 5 hours ago]

Heather Wakefield, UNISON head of local government, said: "the government says that it values local libraries, but this is pure fiction - the facts speak for themselves."

Library service in crisis, says UNISON [Published This is Lincolnshire - Jun 18 2013]