Pls share. There's a little known benefit for grandparents who look after their grandchildren while parents work.
If ur a parent of an under 12, if your parent (ie childs grandparent) do childcare so you can work, u can apply to get em "Specified Adult Childcare Credit"
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Very sad that Councillor Sheila Bailey has passed away.She was totally committed to the people she’d been elected to serve.Get in touch with Sheila was the good advice to those struggling to be heard.She helped when no one else would.She will be missed.Thinking of her family
Residents at Cawood House have been making some tasty treats for our feathery friends this week to celebrate the annual big garden birdwatch!🐦
Thanks to a very kind donation from a resident's family member, they all enjoyed filling handmade bird feeders too. @careuk@reengageuk
Cawood House resident, Brenda, spent an afternoon playing a few games of cards on our virtual machine.
We find that activities like playing card games are a brilliant way to engage residents in a mentally stimulating way. They can even help to improve memory!
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Yes it certainly helps give some perspective. It is depressing to think about the lives of children living in Afghanistan.Military intervention damages and kills children but so does non intervention.We have to take responsibility for both.
Sometimes I have to pause in my tracks and think. In Kabul right now children as young as 5 are forced to beg for 12 hours a day to help their families survive. Let that sink in. Children all over the world need protection.
Sometimes I have to pause in my tracks and think. In Kabul right now children as young as 5 are forced to beg for 12 hours a day to help their families survive. Let that sink in. Children all over the world need protection.
NEW: In a major breakthrough for rape victims, the government is to amend the Policing Bill to guarantee rape victims safeguards against over intrusive and excessive police requests for personal mobile phone data in rape investigations.
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It is not anti-Semitic to criticise Israel. But it often is anti-Semitic to hold Israel (the only Jewish state) to a higher standard, and seek to punish it, with no explanation for the double standard.
I wrote a comment piece (so my view not the Guardian's). About the escalating attacks on women whose ideas don't conform to the current gender orthodoxy 1/2 https://t.co/Uf7kw2GNrs