One in seven patients in Sheffield feel their mental health problems are going unrecognised by their GP, new figures suggest.
Source: One in seven Sheffield patients’ mental health problems “unrecognised by GP” | The Star
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New deal revealed to keep John Lewis in Sheffield, refurbish store and save ‘significant number of jobs’ | The Star
Councillors are poised to approve a proposed deal that would keep John Lewis in Sheffield – and pay for a refurbishment of the department store.
19 things you can no longer do in Sheffield | The Star
There are lots of great activities to enjoy Sheffield, but in a changing city many fondly remembered pastimes have been consigned to the scrapbook of history.
Source: 19 things you can no longer do in Sheffield | The Star
Sheffield Adult Safeguarding Partnership Annual Report for 2018/2019
Annual Reports do you find them boring, complicated and very uninteresting, what if you found an Annual Reort in a video format.
You say you have never seen a report in this format, for they are never produced, except in the written form.
Well now, this is not so, for the Sheffield Adult Safeguarding Partnership have produced their Annual Report for 2018/2019 in a video format.
The full video is approximately is 60 minutes in length.
However, a short introduction has also been produced which is approximately 4 and a half minutes in length, which can be viewed below
Like what you see and wishing to hear and see more, then the full video can be viewed below
Unfortunately, we have currently, not been able to include the promised BSL format in the full length video, but this may be available by contacting
Practice Development DoLS & Safeguarding Team
Little West Wing
Floor 10
Moorfoot Building
Sheffield
S1 4PL
Tel No. : 0114 2957183
email : mca@sheffield.gov.uk
We do hope that you enjoyed viewing the videos and that you may now have more interest in Annual Reports
Transport spending in Yorkshire FALLS by £18 per person while increasing £90 in London over past year – Yorkshire Post
Comment from 61chrissterry
Next July I will be aged 70 and I was born and lived all my current life in South Yorkshire, mainly in Sheffield.
Over those years many projects have been forecast, but few have ever been achieved.
In fact I can only name one the Sheffield Supertram. This cause very much distruption on its routes in Sheffield in it course of building and was run at a loss until it was taken up by Stagecoach. Now it is enjoyed and used by many but its existance is threatened around 2030 unless more investment is found. What a surprise.
WE have been promised more roads to Manchester, the HS2 and HS3.
The new promised roads to Manchester have never come, HS2 is now more of a pipedream, especially to Sheffield and Leeds and who knows about HS3.
Even when there was some investment, ie rail electrification never came to Sheffield, we have always been an investment backwater.
So I am not surprized re this article.
Abandoned ‘drowned villages’ digitally rebuilt 75 years after flooding
The ‘drowned villages’ which were abandoned and flooded by an enormous reservoir will be seen for the first time in 75 years.
Derwent and Ashopton have been digitally rebuilt by students, and a cache of rarely seen photographs will be displayed only a few miles from where the villages once stood.
The villages, which are now under the 27.8 million cubic metres of water in Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire, will also be remembered by the few remaining former residents.
Their memories will form another part of the photographic exhibition.
Source: Abandoned ‘drowned villages’ digitally rebuilt 75 years after flooding
What do you really think about Sheffield? Fill in our survey – The Star
How much do you love your city? And what could be done to improve it as a place in which you work, rest and play?
Source: What do you really think about Sheffield? Fill in our survey – The Star
The Future of the Sheffield Learning Disability Partnership Board and the Sheffield Learning Disability Service Improvement Forum
I am Chris Sterry a family carer and one of the Carer reps on both Learning Disability Partnership Board (LDPB) and Learning Disability Service Improvement Forum (LDSIF).
Some of you may know me and some not, as some will be aware of LDPB and may be LDSIF.
The reason for this communication is that there has been for some months comments or discussions on the continuation of the LDPB both in its current form, some revision of its form or to even abolish the concept of LDPB altogether.
A meeting for the Reps of LDPB and LDSIF has been arranged on 4 October 2017 at St Mary’s Church in Sheffield, UK.
Before I continue with this, please see below some information of the inclusion within LDPB and LDSIF.
Within the term LD this does include and/or Autism, although there are discussions on going in forming a separate Autism Partnership Board.
LDPB currently meets every two months, it is a Public meeting and therefore anyone can attend. It was formed under ‘Valuing People‘, which was ‘A vision for the 21st Century’, a White Paper presented in March 2001 and in Chapter Nine it laid down the provision of Partnership working by Partnership Boards which were to be established by October 2001.
There are a number of reps who are down to attend and these come to represent the following
Sheffield City Council
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group
Sheffield Healthwatch
LD Service Providers
Persons with LD
Carers of persons with LD
Sheffield Carers Centre
This Board used to meet every month, but approximately 2 years ago a recommendation, by Sheffield City Council, was put before the Board that the monthly meetings become 2 monthly and in the other months SIFS would be created, so in effect month by month there would either be a SIF or PB meeting. While there was no real objection to SIFs being formed there was to make the LDPB to 2 monthly from 1 monthly and it was the majority view of the LDPB members at that meeting to continue to meet monthly. Remember this was a partnership and all partners should be equal, but 1 partner, namely, Sheffield City Council (SCC) decided against the majority decision, so much for the partnership principle and democracy.
The various SIFs were created and for the LDSIF as well as the reps from SCC, reps from persons with LD and Carers of persons with LD could apply to be reps and if agreed by SCC then they could attend. This was not fully within the partnership principle and the meetings would not be Public meetings, so only the reps could attend or others as invited. The SIFs have not been created by Statute as was LDPB and is purely a decision by SCC.
Now SIFs are supposed to deal with operational issues while LDPB to deal with strategic issues.
There are a number of SIFs, in addition to LDSIF and these include
Carers, where I am also a Carers Rep
Adult
Mental Health
and possibly a couple more.
As I stated above regarding the discussions on the future of LDPB and in effect LDSIF a joint meeting has been arranged for the reps of both LDPB and LDSIF to attend and a copy of the invite is attached. For information this joint meeting is on Wednesday 4th October 2017 at St Mary’s Church from 11am to 2pm.
I will be attending as well as other carer reps and I do wish to know the views of others within Sheffield, whether they be LD Carers or not, but especially LD Carers and others within the LD community, be they persons with LD, LD Service Providers or any other connection with LD.
I have scanned the internet for information regarding Sheffield LD Partnership Board and although there appeared to be links they did not connect with any relevent information except for this from 2007 and this Help for People with Learning Disabilities. The first link is now 10 years old and the person who appears as the originator for the Foreword, Josie Bennett, who is no longer with Sheffield City Council and there goes another tale which I may proceed to mention some other time. Looking at the second link this appears to be more promising until you progress on the link and the get the message ‘Sheffield has a Learning Disabilities Partnership Board to help us make sure that we meet the needs of people with a learning disability in Sheffield. The Partnership Board meets every two months and is attended by family carer representatives, people with a learning disability, and representatives from agencies in the city who work with people with a learning disability.’ if you then follow that link you get Search Results (0). Now I would say that is not a very encouraging sign for the future of LDPB within Sheffield.
Please do advise your comments, do you agree with me or have your conclusions. LD Boards in other areas do appear to be active being Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire,York and current minutes are readily available, while for Sheffield no current information appears to be readily available.
I also facilitate a LD Carers Support Group at Sheffield Carers centre for which there is an email address being ldcarersbuttygroup@gmail.com, please could you direct replies, comments, etc to that email or to the FLASH (Families Lobbying and Advising Sheffield), of which I am also a member, email being flashld575@gmail.com.
I do look forward to hearing from, as do my fellow reps, especially in these times of change, uncertainty and austerity, not on just the uncertainty regarding LDPB and LDSIF, but any aspect of relating to care. I repeat the 2 emails where comments are encouraged to be made being flashld575@gmail.comor ldcarersbuttygroup@gmail.com or you could come to the LD Support group which is held every 4th Tuesday of each month at the Carers Centre from 12 noon to 2pm, please bring a Butty (Sandwich) drinks tea, coffee, water are providing.
The website of the support group is ldcarersbuttygroup
Thank you
Chris Sterry
‘Incredible’ Special Olympics brings in £1.4 million to Sheffield – The Star
The Special Olympics National Games brought in more than a million pounds to Sheffield, council bosses have revealed.
Source: ‘Incredible’ Special Olympics brings in £1.4 million to Sheffield – The Star
Call for more Shared Lives carers to help people ‘blossom’ in Sheffield | Care Industry News
“You help someone blossom as a Shared Lives carer, and they help you blossom too. They just become part of the family…”
That’s the view of carer Sue Cashmore, 59 years old from Shiregreen, who has been caring for adults in her own home for around 20 years. She’s part of the Shared Lives scheme, a community-based approach to supporting adults, where ordinary people open up their home and lives to support people through respite or live-in care.
Three adults with learning disabilities live with Sue, along with her husband and teenage daughter, and Sue says the experience has been good for all of them:
“You develop relationships with people. And if they are comfortable coming to you and you enjoy having someone in your home, you just feel good.
“The people who we support are all independent in their own way. They don’t all need 24/7 care and they’ve got their own thoughts and feelings. They do what they want to do, and you’ve got to encourage that.
“You’re not just helping them though – it brings out your own personality a bit more. They bring out the best in you and you bring out the best in them. And I think my daughters are better people for having people with learning disabilities live with us – they get a better understanding of things.”
Sue joins Sheffield City Council in calling for more people to become a Shared Lives carer. People are given
Source: Call for more Shared Lives carers to help people ‘blossom’ in Sheffield | Care Industry News
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