Ancoats Dispensary Trust (ADT), in partnership with Igloo Regeneration, has successfully secured backing from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to help save from demolition the much-loved Grade II listed Ancoats Dispensary, subject of L S Lowry’s 1952 painting Ancoats Hospital Outpatients’ Hall.
In a two-round application process, HLF has awarded the partnership initial support towards a full grant of £4.5million. The partnership will receive a development grant of just over £770,000 to undertake immediate stabilisation works to the fragile building and enable it to fully develop its plans to restore and transform the building
Ancoats Dispensary Trust (ADT), in partnership with Igloo Regeneration, has successfully secured backing from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to help save from demolition the much-loved Grade II listed Ancoats Dispensary, subject of L S Lowry’s 1952 painting Ancoats Hospital Outpatients’ Hall.
SHELTER HOMELESS
advice about which benefits and tax credits to claim, or how to claim them,
help challenging a decision to stop your benefit, e.g. following a medical examination,
advice about any extra financial assistance that may be available to help you meet a shortfall in your rent caused by the bedroom tax, or to help you buy furniture or pay fuel bills, or
help challenging a decision to sanction your benefit, or that you must pay back an overpayment?
A children’s charity has launched an “urgent” appeal for funds to help childhood and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
Manchester-based MedEquip4Kids needs more than £22,000 to buy equipment not available from NHS resources.
It will use the money to help mental health teams working with children affected by conditions such as autism, ADHD, depression, eating disorders and self-harm.
A coroner has criticised mental health services for “failing” to provide proper care to a concert violinist who died just a week after giving evidence against her predatory former choirmaster.
And he demanded that new rules are put in place to ensure that vulnerable witnesses are given better support when they face often traumatic trials.
Mother-of-four Frances Andrade was “extremely traumatised” after testifying about abuse she suffered as a teenager at the hands of ex-Chetham’s School of Music choirmaster Michael Brewer and his wife Kay.
HEALTH and social care teams will try to reduce the number of hospital admissions in two new pilot schemes.
People more likely to be taken to hospital — such as the elderly or those with long-term conditions — will be identified by Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) in Bolton.
The pilot schemes are a joint project between Bolton Council, the Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust and Greater Manchester West NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust as part of the new “integrated” health care system.
Council chiefs say there are more than 44,000 people aged 65 and over in Bolton, and more than 13,000 of these are at risk of developing future health and social care needs.
The mental health intermediate care centre, which was officially announced on Monday, would manage tenant’s mental health and provide help with integrating back into society.
However, MM has learned that many of the staff who would be needed to run the centre are set to lose their jobs in April, if proposed Salford Council budget cuts take effect.
The mental health floating support service which workers are employed in will be seeing a reduction in funding of £214,000 under the council budget cuts.
Steve North, branch secretary of Salford Unison, has been involved in the proposed centre’s planning and says the announcement is a ploy by Salford Council.
“On the face of it this looks like a really positive development,” North told MM.
FURY AS SALFORD COUNCILLORS REJECT VULNERABLE ADULTS CUTS CALL IN
Star date: 24th July 2014
SALFORD PEOPLE UNANIMOUSLY IGNORED BY SCRUTINY COUNCILLORS AS £4.4MILLION CUTS GET GO AHEAD
“It’s gobsmacking and you would really question your faith in Salford City Council’s political system today” Steve North, Salford City UNISON
There was fury yesterday as six councillors sitting on Salford Council’s Budget Scrutiny Committee unanimously voted to reject a `call in’ to reconsider over £4million of cuts to services for vulnerable people in the city.
