Weekly Flylady Thread 17th September 2007

lil_me

Tried in my area, bring up stuff about research etc, will ring the local carers support and see if they know.

All I could find was

This is why a new project to research accessible breaks and specialist holiday provision has been commissioned through the Carers

but no other info on it.

vanilla

LOL pigpen gonna get the phone book and get ringing.:rotfl: It would be great for him and me. The playgroup i used for DD said they had to be 4 but i think she was fobing me off but will try others and see what they say.

lil_me

Carers grant supposedly not in this area that anyone knows about, just been in touch with the carers support and they are looking into it however. From what it looks like the local government gets these grants paid to them but it is up to them what they do with it, so the grants system might be a bit of a postcode lottery. Got my friends there on the case however see what they can find out.

lil_me

See I knew it would be a postcode lottery. Durham gets the grant from the government but puts the money into services like respite to give respite to those who are entitled (we so far are not) they don't do 'carers grants'. Oh well was worth looking into.

pigpen

Lil_me.. they were given money for it..
Durham £2,053,535 2007/2008 ... so don't be fobbed off!! apparently it is a seperate budget to the cared FOR budget they get so they can't use it for respite.

lil_me

Yes the local government is given the grant but supposedly it's up to them what they do with it, it's 'to provide support for carers' and they don't say what must be done at all, they chose to put it in the services budget. Purpose of the grants is set to as

The grants may be used towards expenditure incurred or to be incurred by local authorities

Carers support workers have had it out with them on several occasions from what she said. Trust me it's just typical of the way Durham does things. My friend asked for a social services carers assessment and the cheeky social worker said 'You've got a nice house and a car so surely you can pay for it yourself'. Hence I've never even bothered asking for an assessment!

vanilla

Ok just of the phone to a playgroup and if i was to put DS2 in he could get up to 3 half days a week at £4 a day, so going up to see on tuesday. Might put him in 1-2 days a week and sell the stuff on ebay to make up the cost.:j
He would get a free placement next year but he's going to school.

FrankieM

Afternoon everyone...
I've a lovely lunch, just finishing up jobs. Everything looks quite tidy and organised, its really relaxing.
On the subject of washing up and dishwashers....I do have a dishwasher but I don't put saucepans in it. So I usually get the dishwasher stacked but the saucepans aren't done till the next day....last night I didn't even get that done...

So what do you guys do for 'me' time???

lil_me

Vanilla try this link http://www.surestart.gov.uk/improvingquality/guidance/freenurseryeducation/faq/ has info on how to contact those who will provide the free places for 3 and 4 year olds. My sons went to our local school nursery from the Monday after they were 3 years old, free half day sessions. I paid extra for them to stay full days (9 til 3) when they'd been there a little while which I think really helped when they started school.

Frankie, my me time will be a long soak in the bath with some radox tonight as I'm aching!!!

vanilla

Thanks for the link lil_me but i'm in northern ireland so it must be a different set up here.