A Llandarcy manufacturer has produced and donated critical personal protection equipment (PPE) to Action for Children’s key children’s services in the Neath Port Talbot (NPT) and Swansea areas.

Millennium Lasers from Llandarcy provide free PPE equipment to the NHS in Swansea Bay and have now delivered 20 visors to Neath Port Talbot (NPT) Swansea Community Short Breaks project staff and carers to ensure their critical work can continue.

The project works closely with Swansea and NPT councils to support children and young people with disabilities to access community activities (POPS) and provides overnight stays with Family Link Carers in the area.

Caroline Lewis, practice manager at Neath Port Talbot (NPT) Swansea Community Short Breaks, said:

‘In these difficult times our workers are still out in the community striving to support families with children affected by disability. This fabulous donation enables our workers to provide the essential support to families in great need, while keeping both themselves and our extremely vulnerable young people safe.

‘Millennium Lasers have ensured that even during this time, we can keep supporting the children and young people who benefit from using our projects, and it is very much appreciated by all the staff and management at NPT Swansea Community Short Breaks.’

Dr Paul Mason, Managing Director of Millennium Lasers, said:

‘I’ve been told of the great work Action for Children are doing with families with children who have disabilities and that PPE was difficult to access for staff and volunteers.

‘As we are currently providing, free of charge, over 36,000 visor parts for the Swansea Bay NHS Trust, we have the capacity and ability to produce additional visors for local volunteer groups, charities and suchlike. We thought Action for Children was a great fit and one which we wanted to support.  It was our pleasure to provide these to them, free of charge.’