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WM Police 21 Feb 11
Walsall police are appealing for help in tracing a man who has been missing from the town since Saturday (19 February).
David Meadows, aged 49, is considered vulnerable as he suffers from mental health illness.
He was last seen at 11.10am on Saturday, when he left the Dorothy Pattison Hospital in Walsall to go to the shops and didn’t return. Mr Meadows is a voluntary in-patient at the hospital.
Mr Meadows, from Chuckery, has been missing before and police are worried that without medication he will become ill.
They are appealing for Mr Meadows or anyone who knows his whereabouts or anyone who has seen him, not to approach him directly, but to contact police as soon as possible.
Inspector Paul Richards, from Walsall police, said: “Mr Meadows is known to visit Birmingham, Skegness and Barmouth and we are liaising with the appropriate forces. Without medication Mr Meadows may behave unpredictably so we would ask people who recognise his photo not to approach him but to let police know where he is.”
Mr Meadows is described as white, 5’10 with short brown hair, a full beard and wears glasses. When he went missing he was wearing black jogging bottoms, a dark coloured jacket with dark leather patches on the shoulders and a rip at the back.
Anyone with information should contact police at Walsall on 0345 113 5000.
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Linda Jones You've got your hands full 14 May 10
This week, my daughters, who are in Year six, took their SATs. Despite all the discussion about how stressful a time this can be, I somehow thought my girls — who are laid back, hardy little souls – would sail through. I don’t mean in terms of their academic ability (which I won’t discuss thank you very much) but how tough they would find it to actually get on and do. I naively thought it would be a breeze.
Off they went to school on Monday, as relaxed as they could be, with my words to “just do your best, you know we love you,” ringing in their ears…
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The YamYam 18 Apr 10
A Walsall mental health project threatened with closure has been given a stay of execution by managing to secure a £21,000 grant from NHS Walsall.
The Black Sisters Collective in Wednesbury Road provides home visits and a drop-in centre for vulnerable members of the community and a pupil mentoring scheme. In March, NHS Walsall rejected a £50,000 grant application to keep the project running and unless funding was found by the end of this month, the charity would have been forced to close.
Director of the Black Sisters Collective, Maureen Lewis, said: “We had a good meeting with Yvonne Thomas, director of partnerships for NHS Walsall. She listened to our concerns and we are pleased that some money has now been allocated. Further discussions are now due to take place regarding work output. We are working on a new contract.. But the main thing is that the service has won a reprieve as a result of this money. We thank Ms Thomas for taking the time to come and see us.”
The charity employs one full-time and two part-time support workers and is looking to secure additional funding from other agencies.
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The YamYam 21 Mar 10
A Walsall charity which provides mental health support to isolated members of the community faces an uncertain future after being refused vital funding.
NHS Walsall has rejected a funding application from the Black Sisters Collective based in Wednesbury Road for a yearly £50,000 grant to provide one full-time and two part-time support workers. Unless alternative funding is secured in the next few weeks, the project is likely to face closure. Maureen Lewis, director of the collective, said: “We are very unhappy about this application for funds being turned down so late in the day. We now have two weeks to look to other sources or the service will close in April.
“We have been trying to negotiate with NHS Walsall for the last four years for a more long-term arrangement for the mental health project. We have been getting various pots of money from their commissioning team to help cover some of the work we do, but we want to get out of the cycle where every March we are saying to our service users we may be closing because of a lack of funding.
“We really don’t think £50,000 is a lot to ask.”
In January, it emerged that funding promised to the Black Sisters Collective under the government Supporting People grant had been allocated in error by Walsall Council and none of the £7million awarded to Walsall went to the group in spite of assurances that it would.
NHS Walsall blames “pressure” in the financial climate for the latest setback. A letter from Anet Baker, senior joint commissioning manager for NHS Walsall, told the charity: “The financial climate in both the local authority and NHS Walsall has been under increasing pressure over the last few years. Whilst it is appreciated that Walsall Black Sisters Collective provides a valuable and much needed service to the black and minority ethnic community it is with regret that I have to inform you funds to enable NHS Walsall to commission such a service, as described in your proposal, is not available.”