• Last remaining places at :Supporting Carers Dudley’s People’s Network – 8 July*
• Nominate Now for the 2015 British Care Awards closing date September
• Dudley CVS E-bulletin June 2015

Local events

• Art health and wellbeing workshops for carers June – October*
• Dudley Carers Forum and Social Club- June 2015*
• Get cycling for 50 plus scheme June – August 2015
• Age Alliance Dudley ‘Loneliness and Isolation’ survey and town roadshows 25 June – 23 July
• ‘Don’t Leave Me Now’ rehearsed play reading is coming to West Midlands from Dementia Pathways – Wolverhampton – 29 June
• Healthy footsteps for over 50 – From Age UK Dudley July – September
• Tenants and residents groups meetings for July
• Dementia Culture Awareness Training from Mindful Gifts – 3 July
• Employability Sessions and Getting into Adult Education – session Wolverhampton 7 July
• Health and Wellbeing Market Place – Stourbridge Library 8 July
• Building Community Capacity – Empowering and engaging communities: Birmingham event 14 July
• Dudley borough voluntary sector integration event 21 July 2015 – Dudley CVS
• Access in Dudley Summer table-top sale Saturday 15 August 2015
• Free mobile phone tuition for the over 50s 17 August
• Summer Fayre from Queens Cross Network 22 August
• Autism Awareness Training – 24 September 2015 @ the Unicorn Centre

Regular local events

• Monday night Alzheimer’s support group Brierley Hill*
• Age UK Dudley Walks with a difference programme Walk and Talk Book Club April – June
• Nordic walking group aims to promote health and wellbeing Age UK every thursday
• Free family history workshop from Omega Care @ Dudley Archives – last friday of every month*

National news

• Adult social care
  • New to the Prevention Library – resources from SCIE 
  • Technology and care – Keith Spink from SCIE
  • Dignity In Care – 3 new videos launched from SCIE
• Dementia
  • How can and should UK society adjust to dementia? -report from Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Mental Health
  • Mental health crisis review – report from Race Equality Commission and CQC
• End of life
  • Marie Curie calls for more training in palliative care
• Health
  • Helping GP’s make an early diagnosis of cancer – NICE guidelines
• Third sector/health and wellbeing 
  • Survey for health and wellbeing board reps on public health commissioning – through the Department of Health Policy Research Programme
• Commissioning
  • People not process: co-production in commissioning – report TLAP

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*indicates specific interest for carers