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, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle, scooter or powered wheelchair. If your child is awarded the highest rate of DLA mobility component, you may be exempt from paying Vehicle Excise Duty. For advice and information on home to school transport you may find IPSEA useful. For more general information about…

Surrey Short Breaks for Disabled Children funds voluntary organisations and SEND schools to provide short break services, including after school clubs, holiday schemes, home-care and more. The Surrey Children’s Disability Register is a voluntary register for a disability or impairment aged 0… using the details above. Once registered, families will automatically receive the discount card in the post. Parent Carer Break Grants are payments made to support parents who have a disabled child under 18 living in Surrey, who are not currently receiving services from Surrey County Council Children’s Services and don’t have a social care worker. Parents cannot apply directly themselves, but anyone working with a family can apply on your behalf – such as: a carer’s support worker at Action for Carers Surrey, teachers and Home School Link workers, nurses and health visitors, Children’s…

carers and adult young carers have the right to an assessment of their own needs separate from an assessment of the person you care for or other carers in the family. This is your opportunity to explain what is happening at home and your worries and to see if you can get more help. You will need to see… at home who is approaching the end of life then they will be able to be more understanding with any school pressures and try to help. You may find it easier for your parents or other family members to tell the school. It is important the school know as they may have: A school counsellor for you… young people directly working with the charity. It includes information about bereavement and grief, feelings, and how to get help as well as a built-in notepad so you can write down how you are feeling with links to the website. It also includes short stories from bereaved young people as well…

situations which arise out of normal office hours and which cannot be left with an appropriate degree of safety until the next normal working day. It is worth noting that there are usually only 2-4 members of staff on duty and only 1 member of staff from 1 am to 9 am, so calls will be prioritised… specialised nursing care, medications, medical equipment, and supplies in the person’s own home that might help you. They can help improve the person’s quality of life by managing pain and the symptoms of their illness, but they can also give you emotional support and guidance. So if you haven’t… to support those in mental distress. These havens are staffed by mental health professionals and peer support workers and are able to address your symptoms or those of your loved one in a timely way and offer information and advice so you can both stay well at home. Safe Havens can support you as a carer…

for set up a file and put everything in a desk or drawer, or make a list of all the information and location of papers in a notebook. If the person you care for keeps their original documents in a safety deposit box then make sure they keep a copy of the file at home. Remind them to regularly check… quick access to their money for anything from special treatments to family visits. Although informal arrangements can be made with you, your family, or friends to deal with the person you care for’s financial institutions on their behalf, they might also want to think about a formal arrangement…

Organs can only be donated if the person you care for dies in hospital, usually in intensive care where the blood can be kept circulating. However, tissue (such as bone, skin, heart valves, corneas, and many others) can be donated up to 48 hours after a death which does not necessarily occur in a hospital. Up to 50 people can benefit from tissue donated from just one person. From spring 2020 the law around organ donation changed. All adults in England will be considered to have agreed to organ and tissue donation when they die unless they have recorded a decision NOT to donate or are in one of the excluded groups. If the person you care for does not want to be an organ donor they will need to opt-out by registering a ‘refuse to donate’ decision on the NHS Organ Donor Register and by sharing their decision with you. It’s important they tell you what they want, as the family…

You and/or the person you care for may find it easier to ask a professional to be involved in discussions about death. Or it might be simply having the professional there that will give everyone more confidence to talk about death. Who that professional is will often depend on the person you care for and who they have the most contact with, for example, their GP, a social care worker, or a palliative care nurse. Many ‘end of life’ conversations take place in hospital, yet there are massive variations on the part of medical staff as to how and when conversations about dying take place…. If the person you care for refuses to give consent to share certain information about their diagnosis and prognosis it does not prevent you from talking to those professionals involved in their care about their general care needs and the impact on your own wellbeing. Things to think about Ask…

. If the person dies in hospital or hospice, the staff will arrange for the death to be verified. Once this has happened, the person’s body may be moved to the mortuary if there is one on-site. If there is no mortuary on site, or the body is in your own home, the funeral director will collect the body. If the person has died at home, you can keep the body at home until the funeral if you choose, and the funeral director can help you look after the body there. You can also have the body cared for at the funeral home and you can visit them there. Things to think about If providing near end of life care… Although you will be feeling very emotional, the person’s death must be confirmed by a doctor or health professional trained to formally verify death within two to three hours. This is called ‘verifying the death’. If the person dies at home and there is no health care professional qualified…

The When someone dies (GOV.UK) provides a useful step-by-step guide on what to do after someone dies. One of the first things to do when the person you cared for has died is to check whether there is a will. They may also have left other instructions in ‘letters of wishes’. You may already know if there is a will and where it is. For example, you have discussed with them that it will be left in the financial paperwork or with their solicitor. You may also have discussed with them being the executor of the Will or you know who the executor is. If you cannot find a will in their home, check if you can find a certificate of deposit, which is sent if the Will is kept by the Principal Registry of the Family Division. Even without a certificate of deposit, it is worth checking with the Registry to see if they hold the Will. If the person you care for died in a hospital or care home…

, unsteadiness, reduced confidence) encourage the person to seek further advice and support from GP, district nurse, physiotherapist/occupational therapist, or Community Falls Prevention Team . Continence Helping the person you care for to use the toilet, commode or bedpan might cause one or both of you… nurse can do this procedure at home. Unless the person is struggling to swallow or the person is advised by the GP not to do so, help the person to keep fluid intake up – based on NHS England advice we should all be drinking 6 to 8 glasses of fluid a day. The colour of urine can indicate…