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£10m Monmouth Care Village Given Go Ahead

Written by PSP Healthcare
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
PSP Healthcare, the rapidly expanding elderly nursing and care home group managed by brothers Preyen and Shrien Dewani together with their father Prakash, are delighted with the recent planning permission for a pioneering Care Village at the site of their leasehold Nursing home in Monmouth, South Wales. A phased programme over the next 18 months will see the £10m construction of a state of the art 90 bedded Nursing and Residential Care home together with 33 specially designed close care apartments and cottages for the elderly. The project will be managed by Andrew Wilson Partnership from Bristol who were engaged to obtain the planning consent by the site owners Gibraltar Holdings Ltd. Senior Partner Andrew Wilson told us, “Gibraltar House currently provides nursing and residential care for 35 residents many of whom suffer from dementia. Whilst the quality of care delivered by PSP Healthcare has an impeccable reputation, the fabric of the current building is tired and not up to modern standards. Together with the Architect Phil Lewis from KWL, in Newport, we have a proven track record in building Award Winning Care Villages in England and so very much look forward to giving Monmouth the first one in Wales.” PSP Healthcare, will manage the site as its registered operators, and say that over 50 new jobs will be created with the Care Village. Its Managing Director, Preyen Dewani, comments that “the new facility will provide a level of accommodation and facility that just does not exist in Wales today. All of the bedrooms will be 20sq m in size and fully ensuite with an integrated electric ceiling hoist system from Denmark that will significantly ease a bed-bound resident’s transfer to the bathroom. The new home will house a health complex with a hydro-therapy pool, a specially adapted gym for the elderly, personal therapy rooms as well as hair dressing salons on each floor. An internet café, library and a special cinema room to screen all the old flicks will facilitate popular past times” He went on to say that “…we are fortunate to live in decent accommodation and enjoy good food, entertainment and activities, so there is no reason why our elderly should not have the best as well.” PSP Healthcare is moving into the Care Village sector after exceptional success in the operation of nursing and care homes. Managing Director and elder brother, Preyen, was recently listed as one of the top 20 in the healthcare sector to watch, and has some exciting plans to further expand the group over the next few years in this country and in India where they are currently in talks to develop “Ashrams” where people from this country may spend their retirement. The Monmouth Care Village will be set in landscaped sensory gardens and will provide specially designed mobility friendly two bedroom cottages and apartments for those not immediately requiring the full services of the care home. “The concept,” explained Preyen, “is that a couple may release their equity by selling their property and move into the Village on a tenancy for the duration of their life. They can lead an independent life whilst living in a secure, well maintained community with neighbours at a similar stage. If it becomes necessary for one of the partners to become a resident in the care home it would cause minimal disruption to the family as everything is in one Village !”.

£10m Monmouth Care Village Given Go Ahead

Written by PSP Healthcare
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
PSP Healthcare, the rapidly expanding elderly nursing and care home group managed by brothers Preyen and Shrien Dewani together with their father Prakash, are delighted with the recent planning permission for a pioneering Care Village at the site of their leasehold Nursing home in Monmouth, South Wales. A phased programme over the next 18 months will see the £10m construction of a state of the art 90 bedded Nursing and Residential Care home together with 33 specially designed close care apartments and cottages for the elderly. The project will be managed by Andrew Wilson Partnership from Bristol who were engaged to obtain the planning consent by the site owners Gibraltar Holdings Ltd. Senior Partner Andrew Wilson told us, “Gibraltar House currently provides nursing and residential care for 35 residents many of whom suffer from dementia. Whilst the quality of care delivered by PSP Healthcare has an impeccable reputation, the fabric of the current building is tired and not up to modern standards. Together with the Architect Phil Lewis from KWL, in Newport, we have a proven track record in building Award Winning Care Villages in England and so very much look forward to giving Monmouth the first one in Wales.” PSP Healthcare, will manage the site as its registered operators, and say that over 50 new jobs will be created with the Care Village. Its Managing Director, Preyen Dewani, comments that “the new facility will provide a level of accommodation and facility that just does not exist in Wales today. All of the bedrooms will be 20sq m in size and fully ensuite with an integrated electric ceiling hoist system from Denmark that will significantly ease a bed-bound resident’s transfer to the bathroom. The new home will house a health complex with a hydro-therapy pool, a specially adapted gym for the elderly, personal therapy rooms as well as hair dressing salons on each floor. An internet café, library and a special cinema room to screen all the old flicks will facilitate popular past times” He went on to say that “…we are fortunate to live in decent accommodation and enjoy good food, entertainment and activities, so there is no reason why our elderly should not have the best as well.” PSP Healthcare is moving into the Care Village sector after exceptional success in the operation of nursing and care homes. Managing Director and elder brother, Preyen, was recently listed as one of the top 20 in the healthcare sector to watch, and has some exciting plans to further expand the group over the next few years in this country and in India where they are currently in talks to develop “Ashrams” where people from this country may spend their retirement. The Monmouth Care Village will be set in landscaped sensory gardens and will provide specially designed mobility friendly two bedroom cottages and apartments for those not immediately requiring the full services of the care home. “The concept,” explained Preyen, “is that a couple may release their equity by selling their property and move into the Village on a tenancy for the duration of their life. They can lead an independent life whilst living in a secure, well maintained community with neighbours at a similar stage. If it becomes necessary for one of the partners to become a resident in the care home it would cause minimal disruption to the family as everything is in one Village !”.

http://www.careappointments.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6297&Itemid=73

Shrien Dewani, 22, general secretary of National Hindu Students Forum Speaks: Gujarati"He isn't being completely unrealistic but he has to take more care when he talks with respect to the ethnic minority community, and stop bundling us all together."

Blunkett: Guilty of offensive language or just delivering some home truths?

By Nigel Morris and Matthew Beard

Monday, 16 September 2002

The call by David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, for Asian families to speak English at home was made in three sentences in an essay with the daunting title, "Integration with Diversity: Globalisation and the Renewal of Democracy and Civil Society".

But it turned his treatise for the Foreign Policy Centre on the nature of Britishness into a damaging row about the state's right to interfere in people's private lives.

With his customary knack for stirring controversy, Mr Blunkett found himself once again accused of pandering to the prejudices of the right.

Leading the onslaught was the unlikely figure of Keith Vaz, who had maintained a discreet silence since resigning as a Foreign Office minister amid allegations over his business links. He was quick to challenge the claim that nearly a third of British Asian families did not use English and questioned Mr Blunkett's argument that "schizophrenia bedevils generational relationships ... where English is not spoken at home".

He said: "If this was a Conservative Home Secretary he would have been asked to apologise by now." Mr Vaz claimed Mr Blunkett was using the Asian community as a "cheap target" and accused him of making one of the silliest remarks ever made by a Home Secretary. He challenged him to test the accuracy of his remarks by spending the night with an Asian family in his Leicester constituency a city widely celebrated for its record on race relations.

Mr Vaz said: "What David is saying has no basis in reality. No Asian family in Leicester does not speak English at home. In many cases they speak it better than Mr Blunkett himself.

"He has clearly forgotten all the excellent work he did as Education Secretary in relation to mother-tongue teaching."

In Leicester, Mr Blunkett's comments were greeted with something approaching conviviality. Arvind Patel, an Asian Ugandan who runs a Muslim community centre in Leicester, and his wife, Kamu, invited the Home Secretary to visit. Mr Patel said: "He is welcome to come to our house and see that you can speak your native tongue at home and still have an integrated life outside. My parents insisted on a dual-language upbringing and my sons will bring their children up the same way. It is a question of balancing your career and friends with an appreciation of your roots."

Mr Patel, married for 32 years, added: "My wife does not speak perfect English, but she took great trouble to learn it when she came here. We both think it is important to be confident in English."

Their sons, Hitesh, 28, and Amit, 26, no longer live at home but speak a mix of Gujurati and English with their parents. "English tends to dominate and it is only when older people are around that we speak Gujurati," he said.

Mr Blunkett's claims that language was central to prosperity were recognised by many groups although the impact on civil rights raised widespread concerns.

Beverley Bernard, acting chairwoman of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), said proficiency in English was a springboard for success in education and in the workplace. But she added: "Any suggestion we can prescribe when and to whom we should speak English in the privacy of our own home is not acceptable. Respect for what defines individuals and the different communities that now make Britain a diverse society lies at the heart of social cohesion. This should be further underpinned by equality of opportunity for all."

The CRE also questioned Mr Blunkett's suggestion, based on a recent citizenship survey, that English was not spoken at home in 30 per cent of Asian British households. A spokes-man said: "We do not know where he got this figure from. We cannot clarify whether it is right or wrong. It is not something we recognise."

Tauhid Pasha, legal director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said: "If it is not backed up by evidence, it's dangerous to say this. It backs up a prejudice that Asians don't want to speak English, which is clearly incorrect and can also increase racial tension and animosity against Asian people."

He said some Asian families encouraged the use of other languages in the home to prevent their children losing their knowledge of their mother tongue.

The Home Office, backed by Downing Street, mounted a vigorous defence of the remarks. A spokesman for Mr Blunkett said there remained some communities where ignorance of English persisted, particularly among women.

It defended the 30 per cent statistic as based on "rigorous academic research" drawing from a large sample. However, the details will not be published until later this year.

A Downing Street spokes-man said: "It's not dictating to people what they do. It's simply pointing out the advantages for children if English is spoken at home, as well as the mother tongue." He added: "The Prime Minister agrees it is an advantage to children to grow up in a home which is bilingual."

But Oliver Letwin, the shadow Home Secretary, said: "The Home Secretary is apparently trying to say something about how people should go about conversing in their own home. That is different from learning English. I think Government, in general, ought not to spend its time telling people how to behave in their own homes."

Professor Bernard Crick, who was appointed by Mr Blunkett last week to design the "citizenship classes" immigrants will now have to take to get a British passport, gave guarded approval to the remarks. He said: "It would be helpful to integration if the proportion of immigrants speaking English at home increased at a greater rate."

He pointed out that in north Wales and Gaelic-speaking Scotland many households did not speak English at home, and successive Governments had encouraged the Welsh language.

Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: "The comments have been unhelpful, especially during these times when the communities are dealing with the anniversary of 11 September."

LANGUAGE BARRIER: THE VIEWS OF ETHNIC MINORITIES

By Paul Peachey

Christine Yau, Chinese community leader
Speaks: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hakka
"I would say that 95 per cent of the community here speak Chinese at home. This is a democratic society. The Home Secretary might have this idea but I don't think he can dictate the people's choice. But to encourage English as the main language that would be welcomed by most people."

Lembit Opik, Liberal Democrat MP
Speaks: Estonian, German
"My grandparents didn't speak much English when they arrived in Britain and didn't speak much when they died 40 years later. My godfather ran a 100-acre farm and paid taxes but could only speak six words. Presumably he [Mr Blunkett] would pay the tuition fees."

Pratap Ranawaya, 52, head of sales at a music company
Speaks: Swahili, Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati
"What Blunkett says is crazy. I was born and brought up in Mombasa and our language is a bit of everything in the home Swahili, Portuguese, Gujarati. We literally switch between English and our mother tongue in a split second."

Carmen Gutierrez, 34, consultant in learning and development
Speaks: Spanish
"When I visit my parents we speak Spanish. I agree that if we're going to live in this country we should speak the language, but the expectation that we speak it all the time in the home is unfair."

Muhammed Anwar, professor of ethnic relations, University of Warwick
Speaks: Punjabi
"One should not assume if you speak another language at home, you do not understand or speak English outside. I don't think language is a problem as Asians in this country are concerned." Believes Mr Blunkett'scomments were a distraction from issues of racial and religious discrimination.

Shrien Dewani, 22, general secretary of National Hindu Students Forum
Speaks: Gujarati
"He isn't being completely unrealistic but he has to take more care when he talks with respect to the ethnic minority community, and stop bundling us all together."

Abdul Latif, 47, businessman and politician
Speaks: Bengali
"If anybody wants to enjoy the UK this person needs to learn good English and understand English culture. But most English people can't speak good English."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blunkett-guilty-of-offensive-language-or-just-delivering-some-home-truths-607349.html

Other prominent speakers in the session included Mr. Shiren Dewani...

http://tarun-vijay.blogspot.com/2009/05/pravasi-bharatiya-divas.html

Speakers and Panelists...I think with the contacts the DEWANIS have, Shrien will not be extradited to SA....

Mr. Shrien Dewani
Deloitte & Touche, UK, Senior Associate, Reorganisation Services,
http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/SpeakersandPanelists.pdf

The Dewani family...Hatherleigh Care Village

http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/news/Hindu-ceremony-blesses-Hatherleigh-Care-Village/article-485589-detail/article.html

http://www.careandsupportguide.com/Hatherleigh_Care_Village_5044.html

Shrien Male or female?...very strange conversation ! that turns out to be about Shrien Dewani. Possible sexual encounter ? Quote: Closer to the date of your possible meeting with this person, can't you just give them a call so as to discuss how you would recognise each other (if not meeting in your/their office) and see if you speak to a man or a woman. Or you can always find another work-related excuse to speak to them. To cut it short - I am trying to suggest a simple way to find the correct answer to your riddle.End of quote....Does not sound much like 'business' to me...:If the allegations that Dewani IS gay are true, this could be a conversation enquiring if Shrien is known in the gay circle and what 'role' does he play, male / female of the homosexual variety..I have also placed a link to ALL Indian girls names and SHRIEN is not a girls name !

Business : Shrien - Male or Female?

by Jeremy Freeman

on 23-Mar-04 9:37pm

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I'm currently corresponding with a prospective client whose name is Shrien, and we are due to meet up to discuss a project we might be working on.

I have no idea whether I am talking to a male or female - have you heard of the name Shrien?

Let me know.

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by Rossi Ignatova on 23-Mar-04 10:02pm

I did a very quick search on Google.co.uk and found the following sentence: 'My guide's name was a young lass named Shrien.'
The name seems to be Indian.
Good luck

Rossi (I am a girl in case you wonder) : )

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by Colin Allison on 23-Mar-04 10:11pm

A Hindu origin girl's name - have a look here

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by Jeremy Freeman

on 23-Mar-04 10:16pm

Thanks Rossi and Colin...

Colin, how do you know it's a girl from the link you showed me - sorry if I'm being stupid!

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by Kamlesh 'keep the i small Darji

on 23-Mar-04 10:21pm

I have a friend called Shrien he is male and based in London. Who knows might be him? Hindu male name.

KC Darji
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by Jeremy Freeman

on 23-Mar-04 10:24pm

Thanks Kamlesh...now I'm even more confused...you might be right - this person that you know wouldn't happen to represent NHSF by any chance?

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by Colin Allison on 23-Mar-04 10:38pm

'cos the URL is http://www.kabalarians.com/female/shrien.htm

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by Rossi Ignatova on 23-Mar-04 11:42pm

Jeremy,

Closer to the date of your possible meeting with this person, can't you just give them a call so as to discuss how you would recognise each other (if not meeting in your/their office) and see if you speak to a man or a woman. Or you can always find another work-related excuse to speak to them. To cut it short - I am trying to suggest a simple way to find the correct answer to your riddle.

Rossi

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