Family Life

Local dementia day-care not -for-profit urges families to seek support earlier

A local not-for-profit dementia care and support service, The Filo Project , is using this Dementia Action Week to encourage families across the region to reach out for help sooner and to challenge common myths that can prevent people from getting the support they need.

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Plans to speed up adoption set out by councils

Children in care would be found a home with adoptive parents more quickly under new plans to reform the adoption system.

In a joint submission to Government, councillors, chief executives and directors of children's services have set out proposals to significantly increase the number of adopters recruited and speed up the process of finding new homes for children in care.

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Hospital's Project SEARCH seeks new interns

An award winning scheme that supports young adults with learning disabilities gain paid employment is holding a series of information events to attract new interns who could benefit from the project.

Project SEARCH is based at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, and helps adults with learning disabilities between 18 and 24 move towards paid employment by working in the hospital in a series...

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Put a spring in your step at Plymstock Library

Plymstock Library is hosting a special event on Saturday 13 April to showcase its wide range of services.

Visitors will be invited to take part in a storytime session and online workshops, meet a comedian and poet, watch a film and find out more about what the library has to offer.

The WRVS will be promoting volunteering opportunities to help older people in the community and...

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Theatre Royal to inspire disabled young people with drama

Splashing in water and smelling flowers is all part of a unique, interactive performance coming to Plymouth specifically designed for young people with profound disabilities. The Theatre Royal and Plymouth City Council have teamed up with Nottingham Playhouse to bring the production ‘White Peacock’ to the city – a story of Sam’s long summer break from school, and the adventures that await him...

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Victoria Allen

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Plymouth hospital to feature in BBC baby documentry

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust features in ‘Don’t Just Stand There….I’m Having Your Baby’ next week. This is part of BBC Three’s Baby Britain season of programmes exploring what it means to be a young parent in Britain today and how a baby changes your life.

The series follows a group of fathers-to-be as they try to learn as much as they can about babies and births before their own are...

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Stepping Stones to explore this Easter holiday

Plymouth City Council are inviting families to become mini-explorers this Easter with a series of free and exciting nature activities that have nothing to do with eggs!

Budding young explorers can enjoy woodland walks and seashore safaris with their parents or carers on lots of dates and various locations across Plymouth courtesy of Stepping Stones to Nature.

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Museum Event for kids and their 'Yummy Mummies'

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is hosting some special art and craft sessions this Saturday (9 March) where children can make handmade gifts and keepsakes to give to their mums on Mother’s Day.

The ‘Yummy Mummy’ event is part of the Museum’s ‘Make and Take’ programme, which gives children of mainly primary school age the opportunity to work with their parents, grandparents or...

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Grant helps military families to join in sailing activities

A Plymouth sailing club has become the first organisation in the city to receive a Community Covenant grant of almost £30,000, from the Ministry of Defence, following a successful bid supported by Plymouth Armed Forces Community Covenant and Plymouth City Council.

Plymouth Youth Sailing will use the money to run a programme of RYA OnBoard watersports activities aimed at further...

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ROWE Irene Joyce (Queenie)

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MARSHALL Sarah Jane

HODGE Lilian Mary

LEACH Leonard Raymond (Len)

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Safety at your fingertips with Plymouth University

Plymouth University is offering a day of fun activities to encourage people of all ages to surf safely in cyberspace as part of Safer Internet Day.

The annual international event, taking place this year on Tuesday 5 February, will focus on online rights and responsibilities.

The day is open to the public, and staff and students from the School of Computing and Mathematics and...

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Double celebration for rapidly improving Devon primary

Staff and pupils at a Newton Abbot primary are beginning the New Year with a double celebration after education inspectors judged that every aspect of school life was good or better.

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary was judged satisfactory by education inspectors in 2009. But now every aspect of life at the 120-pupil school is good or better. That improvement has come at a time when school...

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