A VISITING booth has been installed at a Denbighshire care home, allowing friends and family to be re-united in difficult times. The booth, installed at the Dolwen site in Denbigh, managed by Denbighshire County Council, was designed and built by staff member Erfyl Jones, who is a support worker at the home. The booth has allowed residents at the care home, who have been unable to mix since December, to reunite. Once restrictions around visiting care homes have been changed, the booth can be used by families and friends visiting loved ones. Dolwen residents Olwen Lloyd and Janet Kenyon Thompson (below) were the first to use the booth after it was installed on February 11.
Homeless rough sleeper A motion, calling on Denbighshire Council to give its job threatened homelessness prevention team more time to consult on a “reorganisation”, prompted a heated response from a cabinet member. Cllr Glenn Swingler (Denbigh Upper/Henllan) told Denbighshire’s full council meeting on Tuesday his notice of motion was not intended to “interfere with officers’ powers”. It called for the decision date for the reorganisation to be put back from February 1 until a council scrutiny committee had the chance to “examine the reasoning” behind the move. However Cllr Huw Hilditch-Roberts, lead member for education, said the motion would never have happened had it been “communicated in the first place”.