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Blog Archive
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Post Office Launches New Cash Delivery Option
23 April 2020
Cash delivery payments are now available for the most vulnerable individuals who are shielding at home thanks to a joint scheme from the Post Office and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
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MPs ask 'Have you been able to get the food you need during the Coronavirus pandemic?'
23 April 2020
MPs have created a survey seeking a range of views from the public on whether the response of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to the Coronavirus has been sufficient.The answers and examples to this survey will be used by the Committee to inform future questioning to the Government and the survey will be open until 5pm on 28th April.
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Coronavirus Testing for PAs
22 April 2020
The Government’s National Coronavirus Testing Programme has now expanded capacity to test other frontline workers, including all personal care assistants (PAs) who are having to self-isolate due to having coronavirus-like symptoms or because a member of their household has symptoms.We have posted the latest details on how your PA can self refer for a test in Sheffield. PAs eligible for testing should be swabbed as soon as possible within 5 days of developing symptoms. Household members should be swabbed within 10 days of developing symptoms.
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Tell the NHS about Your Experience of Coronavirus
21 April 2020
The National Health Service is asking members of the public to give information about their experiences of coronavirus as part of a major survey, which will help the NHS understand more about how and where the virus is affecting people now. By answering some quick questions, people can help the NHS plan its response to coronavirus. The National Charity Rethink Mental Illness Charity and on a more international scale the “Covid-19 Disability Rights Monitor” are also seeking your views.
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Zest Essential Item Delivery Service for S6, S3, S10 postcodes
17 April 2020
If you are self isolating, vulnerable, have low mobility or are otherwise unable to access essential items and live in the S6, S3 or S10 areas of Sheffield, you can use Zest’s COVIDsupport delivery service. Please note that this delivery service is not a crisis service and is being run by people who have volunteered to risk themselves to help people in need. Please only use this service for essential items, if you have no other way of getting them.
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Disabled Travel Writer's Staying At Home Tips
15 April 2020
Carrie-Ann Lightley , a leading disabled travel writer and wheelchair user has written about how she and others can cope with life in isolation during the Coronavirus lockdown. Her blog includes cookery tips, advice on coping with anxiety and fitness guides such as a ‘cardio workout’.
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Foods to Boost Your Immune System
14 April 2020
As the Coronavirus situation continues and people are spending most of their time indoors, people are asking what they can do to keep healthy and boost their immune system. As well as keeping physically active, managing your stress levels and getting enough sleep, what you eat plays a large part in keeping healthy. Vitamins and minerals in certain foods can help.
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Individual Employer and PAs: Coronavirus FAQs
09 April 2020
Our new information sheet for individual employers and PAs contains guidance based on some of the questions we are being asked at Disability Sheffield by people who employ their own PAs. The outbreak of Coronavirus is a public health issue and as such certain precautions need to be taken by both employer and employee and both parties need to be aware in these difficult circumstances of their employment duties and rights.
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Disability Sheffield Services Update
08 April 2020
It’s important to us that we keep you up to date with what’s been happening over the last few weeks at Disability Sheffield. In response to the COVID19 outbreak we have made some changes to the services we provide so that we can better respond to the needs of disabled people we work with. All our staff are working remotely from home to keep in touch with our clients, provide the latest information relating to the Coronavirus and offer some new and practical support for disabled people in Sheffield including people who employ a PA for their social care.
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Emergency Changes To Disability Benefits 'Needed'
07 April 2020
The Disability Benefits Consortium has written an open letter to Therese Coffey, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to call for emergency changes to the benefits system to ensure disabled people are protected from further physical and financial harm during the Covid-19 crisis. The Consortium has separately recommended that the DWP should engage more with disabled people in formulating policies and processes which affect them.
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