Worthing Liberal Democrats have today signed up to Save the Children’s “No Child Left in the Cold” campaign to end fuel poverty affecting Britain’s poorest families. Save the Children warns the vast majority of parents who cannot heat their home this winter are not getting any help from energy suppliers. According to Save the Children, […]

Lib Dem Shadow Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing Bob Smytherman has today called on his Tory opposite number to act now on fuel poverty.  Figures released last week indicated one in four households are now living in fuel poverty.  Fuel poverty is defined as households spending over 10% of income on energy – more than five million households are […]

Don’t Cut Us Out update:   WSCC rated one of the worst Councils in England for care support –        Judicial review. –     Tele-care Appeal –        Free booklet – The carers guide to surviving the reassessment process –     Workshops for carers preparing for reassessments  It’s Official – WSCC rated one of the worst Councils in England […]

After a bitter 5-month battle by Don’t  Cut Us out campaigners, MPs and Lib Dem Councillors, Elizabeth Parker, the 94 year old West Sussex pensioner crippled with arthritis, has had her County Council care support reinstated  Mrs Parker’s case was first highlighted by the Don’t Cut Us Out Campaign back in April after the Horsham […]

Please click on the following link to read the latest Newsletter from the West Sussex Local Involvement Network. http://www.makesachange.org.uk/cms/site/docs/Aug%202011%20NEWSLETTER.pdf STOP PRESS! West Sussex County Council’s Adults’ Services Select Committee is looking at the impact of changes to the eligibility threshold at its next meeting on September 22nd.  If you would like to share your experiences […]

The Worthing walking for health scheme has reason to celebrate twice over because it recently achieved Natural England’s prestigious Walking for Health Accreditation status for its three walking groups who are also about commemorate their tenth anniversary in August this year. To mark the occasion and celebrate the achievements of the last ten years the […]