Brampton Parish Council

Please ensure that you are practising social distancing and adhering to Government advice. We do not want you to put yourself at risk in the distributing of this information.

Local and national headlines

Message from Dr Liz Robin, Director of Public Health, Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council.

We received the very sad news that four patients being cared for in our area by North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust have passed away.

One at Hinchingbrooke Hospital and three at Peterborough City Hospital. All patients were over the age of 70 and had pre-existing health conditions. They had all tested positive for COVID-19. Their families have been informed and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this difficult and distressing time.

All of our local NHS organisations are well prepared and have tried and tested measures for dealing with this type of outbreak. Please see press release for full detail.

HDC Services

Supporting Vulnerable Residents

The wheels are in motion internally to mobilise a community support effort with regards to reaching out to vulnerable people with food supplies and as much support information as possible. There are several thousand vulnerable people, as defined by the NHS, in the County and we are expecting at least a thousand to within our district. We are to be the recipient of large food delivery today, which is to be broken up and split amongst the vulnerable in our area, and alongside these deliveries, we will be supplying each vulnerable person with a newsletter containing vital advice on social distancing, self-care during isolation and local community and parish support networks.

A large network of staff are coordinating this response and will be ensuring that the vulnerable people in our district that are identified can be supported as best we can.

www.wearehuntingdonshire.org

HDC Services

One Leisure centres and Burgess Hall are closed to the public. Online workouts and training sessions have been recorded by our instructors and have been made available to customers via the One Leisure YouTube channel. Customer response has been positive for the channel and the closure of the centres.

Hinchingbrooke Country Park and Paxton Pits remain open to the public as an open outside space and are strongly encouraging socially distancing for all visitors. The Visitor Centre, café and WCs are both closed to the public and all volunteering activities are suspended with immediate effect.

Markets continue to operate for food stalls only. Pitch fees for all stallholders have been suspended.

HDC car parking charges are suspended across the district until further notice.

HDC continues to update the dedicated webpage to keep customers informed of Council services.

Pathfinder House Services

HDC Staff are working from home where possible. Pathfinder House is now closed to the public. This webpage gives full details on service levels for customers.

Department of Work & Pensions all claimants are being directed online.

Citizens Advice Bureau customers are being directed to their call centre which remains open, 0344 245 1292.

Muir Housing has suspended all front-facing contact at their office and home visits are continuing after being assessed on a case by case basis.

NHS is operating a skeleton staff in their PFH offices and encouraging employees to work from home where possible.

Eastfield House

The office is staffed by a skeleton team. Streets and grounds are working with some slight adjustments as are parking and markets. CCTV is currently continuing to work.

Waste & Recycling is continuing to run as a full service, sticking to the normal schedule thanks to superb staff resilience. We would appreciate your help in cascading this information to residents because as partner waster operations start to scale back collections we have seen some residents confusing that with HDC's service.

Local services

Chorus Homes to report an emergency repair, customers should contact 0345 366 9760 all other repair enquiries should be emailed repairs@chorushomesgroup.co.uk

Cambridgeshire County Council's campaign page continues to provide local communities, organisations and services with coronavirus campaign materials. There are messages which can be shared across a range of channels and they complement the Public Health England and NHS campaigns on coronavirus.

Local Government Association have developedguidance to assist elected Councillors in their vital role leading the efforts to tackle the worst public health crisis we have experienced in a century.

Support for businesses In light of the most recent announcement from Central Government, all relevant information for local businesses has been collated here.

Useful links

We understand the concern that COVID-19 is generating. There are some really simple steps we can all take to protect ourselves and others to stop the spread of viruses and germs including coronavirus (COVID-19).

• Five things you can do to protect yourself and your community (Public Health England)
• Dedicated coronavirus/COVID-19 Information (NHS)
• Guidance to assist employers, employees and businesses (Invest Huntingdonshire)
• Information for the public (GOV.UK)
• Travel Advice (GOV.UK)
• Guidance on social distancing and for vulnerable people (Public Health England)

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