Have your say on Cumbriaâs COVID Recovery Plan
14/04/2021
A new group set up to spearhead Cumbria’s recovery from the pandemic is asking residents for their views on its recovery plan.
Cumbriaâs Strategic Recovery Coordination Group (SRCG) has launched an online public consultation to gather feedback on the Draft Recovery Strategy for Cumbria.
The SRCG is a partnership of organisations and authorities including the county council, district councils, Cumbria Police, NHS, Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership, Cumbria Council for Voluntary Service, Cumbria Community Foundation, and others.
Planning for the future is essential to a successful recovery for local residents, businesses, communities and tourists.
North Cumbria NHS works to keep patients and families connected
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Keeping Patients Connected project
While hospital visiting remains suspended due to COVID-19 restrictions, north Cumbria’s NHS trust is working to keep patients and their families connected.
New volunteers have recently been recruited to the âKeeping Patients Connectedâ project and the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is encouraging more people to apply to become a volunteer. The project aims to facilitate patients having virtual visits with their families and friends using iPads.
Nicole Cottingham, volunteer coordinator for Keeping Patients Connected, said: âThe project aims to help our patients and their families but also we hope it will help take the pressure off busy ward staff.
While claiming to be a climate leader ahead of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow this November, our government is planning to allow a new coal mine to be built in Whitehaven, Cumbria. This new mine would allow the extraction of 2.78 million tonnes of coal every year until 2050, the year by which the UK will supposedly have reached net-zero carbon emissions.
The new mine is opposed by a range of local and national groups, with the local campaign being led by South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC – of which I am a member). In fact, SLACC was set up my members of the Global Justice Now’s South Lakes group after Ricardo Navarro came to speak with us in 2007. Ricardo came over from El Salvador to talk with us about climate justice and we had upwards of 120 people at the meeting. It was a hugely inspiring event that has spurred on local action against climate change.
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