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Southwark Council would like to improve their understanding of older people, living in Southwark, who do not require Adult Social Care Services.

There are many people in Southwark who do not rely on social services for help and they would like to make sure they are providing the services which are needed today, and in the future.

They have produced a short questionnaire which can be downloaded here or mailed to you if you call in to the office.

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Celebrate the amazing work of older London artists at The Capital Age Festival, this Sunday featuring many artists including 3rdthought, Encore Encore, Entelechy Arts, Green Candle Senior Dancers, The Hoxton Singers, Leap of Faith, Magic Me, Montage Theatre Arts, Silver Comedy and more.

Sunday 10th July 2011 2.00-6.00pm

Tel 020 8525 0990 or visit www.capitalagefestival.org.uk

Southbank, London, SE1 9PH (Bernie Spain Gardens next to Oxo Tower Wharf.)

To mark Ethnic Minority Cancer Awareness Week, Breast Cancer Care is reaching Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities by hosting a Cancer Awareness Open Day

Date: 15 July 2011, 12-4pm

Venue: Breast Cancer Care 5-13 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0NS

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Transport for All is campaigning for step-free access at Crystal Palace station.

Join them at 4pm on 5th July outside Crystal Palace station to show your support for installing lifts.

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On Thursday 14 July 2011 Veolia Environmental Services will be holding a ‘jobs fair’ to encourage local people to apply for opportunities at the new Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) at the former gasworks site on Old Kent Road.

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In the build up to next year’s Olympic Games Southwark Council have launched the Health Factor Challenge.

Southwark Health Factor is a 10 week programme to help inspire and inform local residents to improve their health.

To find out more about sports facilities in the borough and to follow their progress please visit the Health Factor website.

The Princess Royal Trust for Carers has found that an investment of less than £5 million in services provided by five Carers’ Centres resulted in at least £73 million worth of social gains in a year. The Trust has published its findings in a new report titled “Carers’ Centres: What impact do they have.”

The report written by Baker Tilly is a social return on investment analysis that evaluates the impact of the support given by five Carers’ Centres over a number of years. Looking across the whole network of 144 Carers’ Centres supported by The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, the independent analysis estimated the gain based on total funding of £57m to be in the region of £814m per year.

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The link below will take you through to a questionnaire that will inform the second phase of the Democracy Commission, an initiative to bring the Council closer to the residents and make them more accountable and connected to their concerns.

Please complete the questionnaire via the link below and return it to:

Kevin Dykes, kevin.dykes@southwark.gov.uk Tel: 020 7525 5601

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The NHS Future Forum has published its recommendations to the Government on the modernisation of health and care.

Set up as an independent group in order to ‘pause, listen and reflect’ on the Health and Social Care Bill, the Forum has made 16 key recommendations, including:

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New estimates, calculated by charity Carers UK and the University of Leeds, show the care provided by friends and family members to ill, frail or disabled relatives is now worth a staggering £119 billion every year.

The figure has risen by over a third since the 2007 estimate, which stood at £87 billion.

Carers’ contribution now far outstrips the total cost of the NHS (£98.8 billion).

The figure amounts to £2.3 billion per week and £326 million per day.

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