Warning Over Access to Covid-19 Testing for Rural Social Care Sector
WARNING OVER ACCESS TO COVID-19 TESTING FOR RURAL SOCIAL CARE SECTOR Fears also raised for closure of rural care homes if funding gap not plugged Social care staff and users in rural areas are facing significant barriers to accessing COVID-19 testing, including lengthy journeys to centres and lack of availability of tests, according to a […]
Successful Rural Conference
For a full week, the Rural Services Network hosted almost 400 delegates at it’s annual National Rural Conference. Last week, as an alternative to its usual conference in Cheltenham, the RSN moved the event online, with the theme of Revitalising Rural The overall event was supported by NICRE, the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise […]
Putting the Rural Voice into Climate Action
Article written by David Cope, Countryside Climate Network Coordinator David Cope, UK100’s Countryside Climate Network Coordinator, spoke at the Rural Service Network’s annual conference Revitalising Rural on Thursday. In this adaption of David’s talk, he spells out why we need to include the rural voice in climate action and highlights some informative examples of councils engaging residents UK100 is […]
North-south divide in housing targets
The Times has reported on analysis suggesting that a new housebuilding algorithm will mean that northern councils may have reduced house-building targets, while huge numbers of homes are built in the South Last month, the Government said that it was looking to revise quotas for local councils using a formula based on ‘relative affordability’, among […]
Warning over access to COVID-19 testing for rural social care sector
Papers including the Northumberland Gazette, Care Talk and Hexham Courant have identified critical challenges in delivering social care services during the pandemic, with four in five rural social care workers lacking adequate access to COVID-19 testing The papers reported on the news that seven in ten of those questioned by the Rural Services Network, warned […]
Plymouth University: Levelling up our digital health strategy
The New Statesman has published an article sponsored by Plymouth University arguing that the digital divide in Britain needs to be addressed for digital health progress to be made in theNHS Whilst COVID-19 has helped speed up digital advances within our healthcare systems, the article argues a digital-first NHS will only work if everyone is […]
North-South divide in COVID-19 cases and testing
Several newspapers, including the Northern Echo, have reported that rural residents are unhappy that they have been brought into lockdown when cases are not as high there as other parts of the county The lockdown has been instigated across several councils in the North-East including County Durham, Sunderland, Gateshead, and Newcastle, however levels of the […]
Extortionate rural broadband quote
The Metro has reported on the case of a retired man living in rural England who was quoted half a million pounds to install high speed Wi-Fi in his home in a remote hamlet in the Lake District The Government’s ‘Universal Service Obligation’ scheme gives the public a right to ‘decent and affordable’ broadband, meaning […]
Hinterland – 21 September 2020
In Hinterland this week – just one coronavirus story for a change amidst a bevvy of other rural issues around: crime, farming and the environment, housing (and algorithms) and finally a football playing alpaca in the Yorkshire Dales * * * UK Farming Minister sees progress on new environmental schemes ELMs will lead to a […]
