Determined not to let any child go hungry this Christmas Wantage Town Council decided to fund free school meal vouchers for more than 400 school children. After the Government revealed it would not be providing vouchers over the Christmas break, the council decided to go ahead to provide extra help in these difficult times. Wantage Town Council have joined forces with local Lib Dem County Councillors Jenny Hannaby and Jane Hanna to give all children who are registered to get free school meals food vouchers. Each child registered for free school meals is entitled to £30 for the two-week Christmas period. The funding will cover two primary schools, one secondary school and a special needs school in Wantage plus two primary schools in Grove. Fitzwaryn Special School, Stockham Primary and King Alfred’s Academy have been provided with the funds for the vouchers.
Co-workers donate sick days, personal time off for nurse who can t work while battling leukemia
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Share: Health care workers have been at the forefront of the battle against COVID-19. In addition to their hard work and sacrifices for the general public, one group decided to help their co-worker in the fight of her life.
When they learned that Lorie Carafelli-Fleming was receiving leukemia treatments, her co-workers stepped up and donated their personal time off so she could recover.
Carafelli-Fleming is a nurse, and is usually the one caring for patients, but when she became ill a few months ago, her co-workers and friends urged her to see a doctor and that s when she was diagnosed with cancer.
Oxfordshire councillors will join efforts to scrutinise a new health management group. PEOPLE using Oxfordshire’s hospitals, GP surgeries and even care homes will have a voice at the table as health and care is set to be managed in a new way. A huge new organisation has been set up to manage health and care across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire which will start its job on April 1 next year. This is part of a move to combine management structures across the NHS in England into regional groups called Integrated Care Systems. To make sure that managers are doing their job properly, a group of councillors from all three areas will sit on a panel called a health overview and scrutiny committee to question health and care decision makers at least twice a year.