Rural Vulnerability
Rural residents can suffer from Rural Vulnerability, due to a combination of issues such as poor transport, lack of broadband low wages and higher than average house prices.
03 Apr 2018
Chance to have your say on rural life
The Prince’s Countryside Fund is encouraging people to have their say on the challenges faced by rural residents. Fund representatives are working with Sarah Skerratt from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)...
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03 Apr 2018
BBC investigates rural hospital transport
The Rural Services Network has featured in a BBC radio programme looking at difficulties faced by rural people accessing healthcare. Broadcast on Friday (30 March), the whole episode of BBC Radio...
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20 Feb 2018
Rural bus network under pressure
Public funding cuts are contributing to a dramatic shrinking of Britain’s bus network, suggests a study. Britain’s bus routes have lost 134 million miles of coverage over the past decade...
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13 Feb 2018
Initiative to safeguard vulnerable people
An important initiative to help safeguard vulnerable people is taking place in north-west England. Electricity North West – the company distributing electricity across Cumbria and Lancashire; and United Utilities, the water...
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30 Jan 2018
Rural vulnerability: Debate by MPs?
PRESS RELEASEFor immediate release Tuesday, 30 January 17 ‘Rural Vulnerability Matters’ was the theme of the Rural Vulnerability Day hosted last week in Westminster by Rebecca Pow MP (Taunton Deane)...
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25 Jan 2018
2018 – Parliamentary Rural Vulnerability Day
Rural England CIC (alongside the Rural Services Network) launched the findings from its latest research paper on ‘Issues Facing Providers of Social Care to Older Residents’. There is a growing awareness...
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25 Jan 2018
Rural elderly ‘face social care crisis’
Elderly rural residents face a crisis situation because of austerity and poor access to social care, says a report. Called Issues Facing Providers of Social Care at Home to Older Residents...
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24 Jan 2018
Rural elderly ‘push services to limit’
An unprecedented boom in the elderly population is pushing local services to breaking point, say councils. The number of elderly people in county areas has risen by half a million...
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11 Jan 2018
Rural views sought on community rail
RURAL residents are being urged to respond to a Department for Transport consultation on community railways. A community rail line is a railway supported by a local partnership giving local...
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04 Jan 2018
Campaign combats winter loneliness
A NEW campaign is helping to combat rural loneliness this winter. The campaign highlighting ways rural community co-operatives help people overcome loneliness and isolation. Funded by the English Rural housing association and...
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