Mental Health Awareness Week Set To Highlight That Good Relationships Are Fundamental To Our Mental Health And Wellbeing
Now in its 16th year, Mental Health Awareness Week which began today and runs up to 22nd May focuses on the theme ‘Relationships in the 21st Century’ - the forgotten foundation of good mental health. A new survey of over 2,000 UK adults commissioned by the Mental Health Foundation and conducted by YouGov has found that nearly half of UK adults (46%) regret not investing more time in the relationships that matter to them, with men more likely to feel regret than women (50% compared to 42%). It emerged that more people identified maintaining healthy relationships as ‘most important’ to [...]
Perkins School For The Blind Launches BlindNewWorld, A Campaign Promoting Blind Inclusion In A Sighted World
Perkins School for the Blind has launched BlindNewWorld, a social change campaign aimed at helping the sighted population be more inclusive of people who are blind and make the world more accessible to them. The campaign was created by BrightMark Consulting and features two public service announcement mini films (PSAs) by award-winning commercial and film director Tom De Cerchio. There are approximately seven million blind Americans who frequently find themselves excluded from society both socially and professionally. This contributes to massive unemployment, making it extremely challenging for people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve independence. BlindNewWorld aims to [...]
Alan Henning Memorial Garden To Be Officially Opened
A permanent memorial to Alan Henning is set to be officially opened in his home town of Eccles. A circular garden at Eccles Recreation ground will be opened in a special ceremony on Tuesday 17 May at 6pm. The Ceremonial Mayor of Salford Councillor Peter Dobbs will open proceedings and thank everyone for taking their time to remember Alan. He will be joined by Reverend Dr Anne Louise Critchlow, Chair of Churches Together who will lead a few prayers and Alan’s wife, Barbara, will say a few words. Paul Dennett, the new City Mayor of Salford, will close proceedings. Eccles [...]
Anti-corruption summit: the economic and moral case for tax havens
Corruption must be stamped out but there is an economic and moral case for tax havens that is often, perhaps conveniently, overlooked, affirms the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations. The observation from Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group, comes as British Prime Minister, David Cameron, welcomes delegates from countries worldwide for a major anti-corruption summit in London. It follows last month’s leak of millions of the so-called Panama Papers from law firm, Mossack Fonseca. Mr Green states: “In the run up to this summit there have been repeated calls to clamp down [...]
Salford’s New Cabinet Announced
City Mayor Paul Dennett has announced his new cabinet. It will see two strategic assistant mayors abolished and replaced with two brand new posts. Paula Boshell will take the position of Statutory Deputy Mayor and focus on internal council and city issues. Councillor John Merry will be the new Deputy Mayor with an outward focus towards devolution, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and beyond. And the new system will see Assistant Mayors replaced with seven Lead Members - each with their own areas of responsibility. City Mayor Paul Dennett said: “The new cabinet has a wide range of experiences and [...]
Proposals Sought To Help Improve Lives Of Disabled People
Organisations are invited to apply for up to £150, 000 from the Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning programme which launched last autumn and expects to fund around 40 projects in the UK over the next four years. DRILL opened this Monday 9 May for applications and will close on 27 July. Disabled people will be at the forefront of designing projects (with academics and policy and practice experts), for the programme. DRILL is funded by a £5 million grant from the Big Lottery Fund and will be delivered by Disability Rights UK, Disability Action Northern Ireland, [...]
Salford City Mayor Elected
Salford’s voters have elected a new City Mayor. Labour’s Paul Dennett secured 28,332 votes, beating second place Councillor Robin Garrido who stood for the Conservative party and received 14,484 votes. The mayoral election used the supplementary voting system, meaning voters had two choices. After the first choice votes were counted Labour candidate, Paul Dennett received 24,209 votes (49.56 per cent) and Conservative candidate Councillor Robin Garrido, received 11,810 votes (24.18 per cent); meaning they moved to a second round of voting as no candidate achieved an overall majority. UKIP candidate Owen Hammond received 8,668 (17.75 per cent) and Green Party [...]
Salford Local Election Results Announced
The results of Salford’s local elections have been announced. The political makeup of the council remains the same - 51 Labour - 8 Conservative and 1 Independent. 50,256 votes were cast - 30% of the electorate turned out to vote. The count was carried out at the AJ Bell Stadium. The results in each ward are as follows: (*means sitting councillor and in bold is the winner) Salford 2016 Local Election candidates by ward. Barton- Labour hold Hilary Brunyee – Conservative Party 287 John Anthony Mullen*– Labour Party 1398 Wayne Tomlinson – British Resistance 17 Daniel Towers – Green Party [...]
Look Before You Book
It’s never been safer to eat food in Salford. Latest hygiene ratings from Salford City Council show that 90.5 per cent of all food businesses in the city are receiving a rating of three or higher. Environmental health officers visit all 2,193 food businesses in the city and they are given a rating from zero to five, depending on the hygiene standards. Places with a rating of five have the best standards of food hygiene in the city. Action is taken against premises that do not comply and when there is an immediate threat to public health they can be [...]
How Would Brexit Effect UK Disability Rights?
On Thursday 23rd June this year, a referendum will be held to decide whether Britain should remain part of the European Union or not. The vote is taking place because Prime Minister David Cameron promised to hold one if he won the general election in 2015. This came in response to increasing numbers of Conservative MP’s and the UK Independence Party who argue Britain had not had a say since 1975, when it voted to stay in the EU in a referendum. The EU has changed a lot since then gaining more control over our daily lives. Mr Cameron said: [...]
