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Offered outstanding support - Affinity Fostering has seen a huge increase in the number of referrals during the pandemic A leading foster care company has warned a crisis has been caused by the Covid pandemic sparking a huge need for more carers. Affinity Fostering has seen the number of fostering referrals rise by up to 50 per cent since the initial Covid outbreak, but that has coincided with the number of people looking to become foster carers plummeting. In the midst of Foster Care For...

Offered outstanding support - Affinity Fostering has seen a huge increase in the number of referrals during the pandemic A leading foster care company has warned a crisis has been caused by the Covid pandemic sparking a huge need for more carers. Affinity Fostering has seen the number of fostering referrals rise by up to 50 per cent since the initial Covid outbreak, but that has coincided with the number of people looking to become foster carers plummeting. In the midst of Foster Care For...

BBC News By Kate Scotter Strokes are often associated with older people but, according to figures, one in four of them occur in younger people. The BBC spoke to three young survivors who wanted to share their stories to help raise awareness. It can happen to any of us at any stage of life image copyrightKayleigh Trainor image captionSchool teacher Kayleigh Trainor says she was in "disbelief" when she was told she had had a stroke Kayleigh Trainor was 27 when she had a stroke "completely out of ...

Published: 6:20 PM April 26, 2021    Updated: 6:36 PM April 26, 2021 Beautiful beach huts form part of a Wish You Were Here art installation during Estuary 2016 - Credit: Jon Webber The best things to do in Essex this May from NGS Open Gardens to Estuary festival and a fairy hunt for the kids Words by Victoria Purcell & Julian Read 1. Estuary 2021, various locations May 22-June 13 Take a walk along the coastline of South Essex and North Kent and you will not only be met with stunning scenery...

RAIL passengers will face disruption when major engineering works take place. Network Rail has announced it will be carrying out a series of improvements on lines between south Essex and London across two weekends in May. Bosses say the upgrades will help to improve reliability. The works taking place between Saturday 1 and Monday, May 3 – which is the bank holiday weekend, are: Track renewals on the Southend Victoria line at Billericay and on the Great Eastern main line at Stratford ...

Director of Public Health at Essex County Council, Dr Mike Gogarty said: "It is really positive and reassuring to see that so many tests have already been distributed in such a short space of time, and that is testament to the residents of Essex doing the right thing and protecting others by making sure they are doing regular testing. "As restrictions ease and people start to meet up with others outdoors, the need for people who aren’t showing symptoms to take part in regular testing is m...

ADDITIONAL collection points for Covid self-test kits are being set up at libraries and venues across Essex. From May 4, 34 library collection points will be in operation across the county, with 14 new ones joining the 20 launched last month. There will now be sites in each of the 12 districts of Essex. More than 150,000 individual Covid test kits have already been collected from libraries since the new collection point system launched. Essex County Council set up the sites to make as...

14 more sites are being added to where residents can pick up Covid tests in Essex.

ADDITIONAL collection points for Covid self-test kits are being set up at libraries and venues across Essex. From May 4, 34 library collection points will be in operation across the county, with 14 new ones joining the 20 launched last month. There will now be sites in each of the 12 districts of Essex. More than 150,000 individual Covid test kits have already been collected from libraries since the new collection point system launched. Essex County Council set up the sites to make as...

14 more sites are being added to where residents can pick up Covid tests in Essex.