The Your Choice (known as YCB) Awards on Monday 8 December 2014 for our service users and parent/carers took place at CommunitySpace and Christmas was very much in the air, too, with festive food like mince pies in abundance so it all added to the wonderful atmosphere. This year the YCB Awards had four categories [...]
Dear all Carers, We would just like to put into writing our thanks to you all for the continuing care that you have show for our brother James. He has had quite unsettling time lately with his weight loss and through your wonderful efforts has put on considerable weight and now looks more like our [...]
YCB staff who rejected Unison's strike action on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 September went the extra mile to continue to provide support to almost 80% of customers across YCB's six schemes. Some customers of the two specialist services forced to close, Flower Lane and Rosa Morison, were supported instead from Valley Way respite service. [...]
YCB staff who rejected Unison's call to strike this week are continuing to support customers across YCB's six schemes on the third day of strike action. As last week, specialist services Flower Lane and Rosa Morison are forced to close, but again some of their customers are being supported from Valley Way respite service. Customers [...]
1 Background to pay cut dispute Adult Social Care budgets across the country are facing significant challenge. In April 2013 The Local Government Association published a report entitled Adult social care spending round submission. In this report they showed that Councils have had to reduce their adult social care budgets by 20% over three years. [...]
Rosa Morison got a very special visit recently from The Barnet Group's Director of Operations Derek Rust, who in turn bought good news in the form of a cheque. Derek Rust won £500 when his name was pulled out a free prize draw after completing a survey for an IT company who work with public [...]
Tracey Lees, YCB's CEO, says: "We are disappointed with the proposed strike action being taken by Unison Members at Your Choice schemes next week. After constructive discussions at ACAS earlier this year we made a one off payment to all employees as a gesture of goodwill and having listened to the concerns of employees and Unison [...]
Andrew Travers, Chief Executive, and Dawn Wakeling, Director of Adult Social Care, celebrated the achievements of two YCB staff members on 30 June. Nina Santos, an apprentice at Flower Lane Autism Service and Steven Mgarambe from Rosa Morison Day Service for adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities both received Excellent Care Awards in recognition [...]
On 23 June four customers from Flower Lane Autism Service performed 'Rites of Passage' at the Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra. The public performance was the highlight of the year for Gary, Michael, Sorya and John after hours rehearsing at the monthly Monday Club generously organised by the Community Projects arm of the London [...]
Staff members at Flower Lane delivered an Autism training session in June and received this accolade from a participant. "This is to say thank you so very much for the exceptional Autism training. It was obvious that you both put in a huge amount of work to provide what you felt we most needed, and [...]