News
17.01.2012
Half a million disabled people would lose out on benefits through the government's reform to disability living allowance, it revealed today. Proposals to replace DLA for people with working-age with a new personal independence payment (PIP) would result in 500,000...
Read more >12.01.2012
Growing numbers of social workers are falling into financial difficulty, with some resorting to high-interest payday loans, according to a support charity. The Social Workers Benevolent Trust, established and supported by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), saw a...
Read more >12.01.2012
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes ten reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. The first five reports were published in December. The programme is...
Read more >21.12.2011
Thinking of becoming a volunteer? Please read on…….. We are looking for a voluntary Activities Co-ordinator, also other volunteers to come and join our team. Volunteers are new faces and bring fresh perspectives. Residents, their friends and families, staff and...
Read more >16.11.2011
Judy Cooper Wednesday 16 November 2011 00:01 Nearly two-thirds of children's social workers have been threatened by hostile or intimidating parents in the past six months, a survey by Community Care and children's services consultancy Reconstruct of more than 600...
Read more >04.11.2011
The Care Providers Alliance (CPA) has launched a vision for regulation and inspection. This is a group of representative bodies within the adult social care sector who have come together to ensure a coordinated response to the major issues that...
Read more >10.10.2011
A coalition of 37 bodies is warning that many disabled people may be forced to leave supported housing settings for residential care or to return to their families as a result. The plans would overhaul the system of "exempt accommodation",...
Read more >03.10.2011
Thousands of social workers and hundreds of employers will be affected by new regulations for employing agency staff. The Agency Workers Regulations stipulate that, after 12 weeks, agency staff will be entitled to the same pay and conditions as permanent...
Read more >30.09.2011
“Women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are less likely to get depressed,” said the BBC today, explaining that the caffeine in coffee may alter the brain’s chemistry. The story comes from a study of over...
Read more >29.09.2011
Cuts, the legacy of care management and the focus on child protection have left adult social workers feeling unrecognised, says The College of Social Work's Owen Davies. He sets out how the College aims to champion social work with adults,...
Read more >16.09.2011
Tens of thousands of social care workers could join a national walk out in protest at the proposed changes to public sector pensions. Unison and Unite have confirmed they are to join a co-ordinated public sector union protest over the...
Read more >12.09.2011
Lawyers acting for two severely disabled men have won the right to a full hearing at the High Court over the council's decision to restrict support to those with critical care needs or those with substantial needs who are deemed...
Read more >08.09.2011
A High Court judge has blocked plans to close a vulnerable children's respite centre in north-west London pending a legal challenge by the mother of a severely disabled child. The Crawford Avenue short break unit in Wembley, which specialises in...
Read more >07.09.2011
NEWS for this month Two members of our staff have completed NVQ 2 in HSC (well-done) One Member of staff also completed NVQ 3 HSC (well done) In the past two months (August & September) we have had 4 new...
Read more >01.09.2011
Molly Garboden Wednesday 31 August 2011 12:01 Most disabled people would have to cut back on food and transport if they lost out on disability living allowance under plans to cut the benefit, a survey has found. A Papworth Trust...
Read more >16.08.2011
It’s another normal day at the office however, this is not any normal nine to five job. You have chosen to build your career by taking on the role of the Registered Manager of a care service. You and your...
Read more >16.08.2011
Point House Residential Care Home NEWS LETTER – update August 2011 We would like to take this opportunity to explain how our progress reports are produced All clients have their own care plans, each day/shift all the staff at Point...
Read more >10.08.2011
Two in five social workers have seen cuts to their frontline teams and many report admin support being slashed, a survey has found. Forty per cent of the 500 practitioners surveyed by social work recruitment consultancy Liquid Personnel, all of...
Read more >04.08.2011
Southampton Council is facing more than 300 claims of unfair dismissal from social workers and other staff. The council could also lose up to £8m at an employment tribunal if unions can prove it failed to undertake a proper consultation...
Read more >03.08.2011
Kirsty McGregor Some sector leaders have said the proposals, under which social workers would set up and run their own practices outside local authority control, could free practitioners from the burdens of bureaucracy, make services more responsive to need and...
Read more >13.07.2011
“A brisk bout of spring cleaning may make you happier,” suggests The Times today. Several newspapers cover new research that claims just 20 minutes a week of any physical activity, such as cleaning or gardening, can have an impact on...
Read more >07.07.2011
+ - LONDON — If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20...
Read more >30.06.2011
A new public sector care company that will help Norfolk meet the changing needs of its older population and the increasing demands on social care services will launch tomorrow (Friday, 1 April). Norse Care Ltd comes into existence from tomorrow...
Read more >23.06.2011
The Government is to slash housing benefit for hundreds of thousands of disabled people who live in social housing, the National Housing Federation has warned. Under the Welfare Reform Bill, which had its third reading in the House of Commons...
Read more >17.06.2011
Welcome to Point House Website. News Find out about the latest news about Learning Disability and information relevant to those who have, and are involved with people with learning disabilities.
Read more >01.04.2011
We have visited many places and been busy with our life skills. (click on Link below ) · Thrigby wildlife park · The dinosaur park · Strangers hall museum · Wroxham · Lowestoft · Pub lunch · Norwich city centre...
Read more >09.05.2011
We are busy as ever, this is a time where we spend much thought on our up coming event over the next few months, we like to make most of the weather for our day services activities and for in...
Read more >07.03.2011
March sees hopefully the beginning of spring which is always an exiting time for us at Point House as it means we can begin to plant the garden with all the vegetables and flowers for the summer. We are always...
Read more >04.04.2011
Point House is moving to-wards helping more of our clients with supported living, rather than just residential care – whilst we have always strive to assist all clients with being as independent as possible now we have the ability to...
Read more >14.02.2011
We are proud to have received many positive testimonials from family members of our service users. Just a few of them can be found below: "Point House have done so much for MY FAMILY MEMBER. Without their support and fanatic...
Read more >01.12.2009
Two of our care staff have just passed their NVQ 2, the senior staff Julie & Karen have just completed their NVQ 3. One of our staff are leaving end of December to go into teaching, we wish her well....
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