Boost for fire safety.Half the people killed in house fires in West Yorkshire West Yorkshire, former metropolitan county, N central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county largely embraced the Leeds conurbation and comprised five metropolitan districts: Calderdale, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield, and Kirklees. are aged over 60. Yet they comprise only one in five of the population. In a bid to boost home safety for the over-60s a scheme to feed back information to the fire service from health and social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales home visits has been launched. Now, when health and social services workers visit people to carry out formal assessments of needs - such as whether they need home care help, meals on wheels n. 1. A program that delivers hot meals to persons, such as the elderly or disabled, who are confined to their homes and unable to cook for themselves; also, the meals thus delivered. Such programs are usually conducted by governmental or charitable organizations. or nursing support - they will also ask a number of simple questions about fire safety. If the answers about fire safety note any concerns - such as the home not having any smoke detectors - the information will be passed to the fire service, which will contact the person and arrange for a free home safety check. The scheme - called Single Assessment Process - is being piloted in West Yorkshire and Leicestershire. If it works well it will then become nationwide. Clr Stephen Baines from West Yorkshire Fire And Rescue Authority said: "We already carry out thousands of free home fire safety checks in the homes of elderly people each year and it is in everyone's interests to streamline effort and target the most vulnerable." |
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