Bad weather impacts county services
Services for older people in Warwickshire will continue today despite the heavy snowfall, which is affecting roads across Warwickshire.
In many areas of the county Home Care and Residential Care Homes continue to operate with little disruption and all Home Care providers now have sound contingencies in place to help ensure services continue to run. A small fleet of 4X4 vehicles has been used in some parts of Warwickshire to ensure that home carers can reach their customers.
In Nuneaton, staff of one Home Care provider stayed overnight in their offices to help ensure that services could continue to run and at residential care homes, rotas have been changed to enable staff living closest to their place of work to cover the night shift to ensure continuity of care.
Other examples of staff going the extra mile include a home carer who walked a mile in ice and snow in order to provide a home care service for an elderly person living in Corley.
Graeme Betts, Director of Adult, Health and Community Services at Warwickshire County Council, said:
"We provide services to a huge range of people, including some of the most vulnerable members of our community. We will continue to work as hard as we can to ensure that services operate as normally as possible throughout this period of severe weather. I would also like to take this opportunity to personally thank all our staff for their dedication in keeping services running."
Today Stockingford, Kineton, Harbury, Studley and Shipston libraries are closed due to bad weather. Monday and Tuesday only two libraries were closed due to the poor weather (Kingsbury on Monday and Stockingford on Tuesday) and a mobile library service continued to be provided using smaller vehicles. Where services are disrupted, alternative measures will be put in place.