Norfolk and Waveney Sustainability Partnership are encouraging members of the public to make the best/most appropriate choices when looking after their own health this winter. The national NHS and social campaign is called “Help Us To Help You”. More details can be found on the poster below.
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NHS and social care campaign “Help Us To Help You”
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Combatting Scam Mail – guidance from the Post Office
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New guide to care and support in Norfolk
A new, updated Norfolk – Your guide to care and support for adults 2018/19 was published last week in association with Norfolk County Council. It gives readers crucial information on how to find and access care and support services throughout the county.
If you are looking for information on what your choices may be, this guide can help. With information to help you understand your options, where to go for advice and how the paying for care system works, the guide can support you to make informed decisions.
The new edition of Norfolk – Your guide to care and support for adults 2018/19 and the accompanying website give information on all aspects of arranging care and support in and around Norfolk. It includes information about how to stay independent for as long as possible, the different care and support options available and what to look for when choosing a care provider if you need one.
It also offers guidance on important issues such as paying for care and what financial assistance may be available from the local authority. There are comprehensive listings of all registered care services throughout Norfolk, plus checklists to help you ask the right questions when visiting services.
It can be downloaded from www.norfolk.gov.uk/ careservices and is available in spoken word. For a free copy of Norfolk – Your guide to care and support for adults 2018/19 contact Norfolk County Council on 0344 800 8020 or email [email protected]. It is also available throughout the region from various outlets including hospitals, GP surgeries, Age UK and the Alzheimer’s Society.
Robert Chamberlain, Managing Director of the guide’s publisher, Care Choices, commented: “This is an invaluable source of information for anyone considering short or long term care in Norfolk, and contains vital information to help people decide what type of care and support is best for them.
“Finding a care service for yourself or a loved one that meets their needs and is affordable can be a daunting and unfamiliar task. This new Norfolk Your guide to care and support for adults has been compiled to help people understand the process and offer them reassurance at every step of their journey.”
Care Choices is the UK’s largest independent publisher for social care and adults with additional needs. It is also the largest publisher of care directories for local authorities in England.
For more information, please contact Gemma Hunter, Care Choices. Tel: 01223 207770. Email: [email protected]
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UK Power Networks Spring Newsletter
Please find attached UK Power Networks’ Spring Newsletter.
This newsletter includes information on how UKPN can help vulnerable customers and how customers can track power cuts via their website.
UK Power Networks is the country’s largest, and lowest cost, electricity Distribution Network Operator (DNO). They serve over a quarter of the UK population and keep the lights on for homes, schools, hospitals and businesses across the East of England, the South-East and London.UKPN Spring Councillor Newsletter-min
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Affordable Transport for those seeking work
Kickstart Norfolk, the moped hire charity, have received some funding from the EU to help them provide subsidised transport for anyone in Norfolk seeking employment but without the means to get to appointments. Details can be read here. The poster below also gives details.
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Give Your Recycling a Little Bit of Love
South Norfolk Council have issued new guidance to every household about what can – and can’t – be recycled. See the extracts below and check out here.
Paper
- Newspapers and magazines
- White and coloured paper
- Greetings cards (without glitter)
- Envelopes (including ones with windows, but not ones with bubble wrap padding) and junk mail
- Clean paper bags
- Telephone directories, yellow pages, store directories and catalogues
- Clean wrapping paper (without glitter or cellotape)
- Shredded paper (please make sure this is put in your bin loosely and not in bags)
Cardboard
- Cereal boxes
- Egg boxes
- Cardboard tubes (poster, kitchen and toilet roll tubes)
- Cardboard packaging and carrier trays (like fruit and vegetable trays)
- Cardboard sleeves
- Corrugated cardboard
- Clean food packaging card (including with plastic windows such as pre-packed sandwiches)
Cartons
Clean food and drink cartons (including Tetra Pak cartons for milk, juices, smoothies and soups)
Please make sure your cartons are empty and rinsed out and remove any lids as we cannot recycle them
Aluminium and steel tins, cans and aerosols
- Clean steel and aluminium food tins and drink cans
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- Clean pet food tins
Please make sure your tins and cans are empty and rinsed out
- Empty aerosol cans (including personal and beauty product aerosols, cleaning products and domestic insecticides (such as fly-spray aerosols)
Please remove any lids as these cannot be recycled
Aluminium foil
Clean aluminium foil- Clean foil trays (like ones used for ready meals and take away food)
Please rinse or wipe your foil trays out
Please don’t put aluminium foil laminate pouches (like those used for cat and dog food) in your recycling bin as we cannot recycle them
Glass
- Clean bottle and jar-shaped glass food and drink containers
You can leave the lids or tops on, but please make sure your bottles and jars are empty and rinsed out
Please do not put any other types of glass (like Pyrex, mirror or window glass) in your recycling bin as we cannot recycle them
Plastic bottles (rigid plastic)
- Plastic food and drink bottles
- Personal care/beauty products (like shampoo and shower gel)
- Household cleaning products (such as bleach and floor cleaner)
- Trigger spray and pump spray bottles (like kitchen or bathroom cleaner)
- Household cooking and food oil bottles
- Roller-ball bottles
- Empty medication/pill bottles
You can leave the lids or tops on, but please make sure your bottles are empty and rinsed out
Plastic tubs, pots and trays (rigid plastic)
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Clean food containers including yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, ice cream tubs and fruit punnets- Clean food trays used for fruits, vegetables, raw and cooked meat and fish
- Clean pots including ones used for custards, creams, fresh sauces and gravies
- Clean ready meal plastic containers (including black plastic trays)
Please ensure your plastic pots, tubs and trays are empty and rinsed out.
Plastic lids can be left on, but cellophane lids and cling film need to be removed as we cannot recycle these
- Newspapers and magazines
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Changes to 85 Bus Service from 18 September 2017
The County Council have notified us of some timetable changes to the service 85, to reflect the addition of Claxton to the service, with effect from Monday 18 September. Service 85A is being withdrawn barring a feeder service to Loddon on college days.
The new Service 85 timetable and Claxton-specific information is set out below.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
The 85A connections through Loddon will cease. Instead the County is creating 3 full return services from Claxton to Norwich, running 6 days a week from Monday to Saturday. Details are as follows:
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Fighting fly tipping
South Norfolk Council are currently seeing high levels of fly tipping and littering in South Norfolk. Both of these have a negative impact on the environment and human health. They have often found that fly tipping has occurred because residents have given their waste to unregistered waste carriers who have in turn fly tipped the waste, and hope to protect residents from this form of activity. Bulky Waste Collection_A4-small.compressed
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Scam alert – fresh gravel delivery
A neighbour in Loddon sent in the following extract from a post on Facebook yesterday. Curiously the same individual was also peddling spare pea gravel in Claxton yesterday morning. We reproduce it here to alert villagers to a possible scam.
“Just had a guy tried to drop some gravel off. For allegedly £5.00 because he needed to pick some machinery up from the next village. not the case at all. had to call police in the end. he put some sprinkles of gravel on drive, that was already 1|2 inch thick. No visible change. Wanted £5.00 per yard. Didn’t get it. Be warned that these people are about. I ended up calling 999 and he left with £50.00. if I had been at home when he arrived he would not have got anything. Thank goodness the police advised him to take the £50.00 & go. DO NOT ALLOW ANYBODY ON YOUR PROPERTY unless you have asked them to come. I have registration of the vehicle and a receipt for what the police officer said was fair. Do Not Allow anybody unless requested.”
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Telephone Scam
A resident of Claxton has told us that earlier to day they had a call from 0203 322 9050.
A recorded message claimed to be from HM Revenue & Customs and stated that there is to be a lawsuit against the resident who should press 1 for their case officer. Fortunately the resident in question is fairly savvy and declined to follow the instructions, instead looking up the number on the internet. Their findings suggested that this was a very serious scam to obtain personal information.
If you want to check whether any telephone number has a history of scamming or other calls the best website to use is http://www.whosenumberisthis.co.uk/. Simply enter the full number and see what has been said about it.
