Child Protection Boss Call To Social Workers
NOTTINGHAM’S new head of children’s services says social workers should bypass their managers and go to him with concerns about their cases.
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NOTTINGHAM’S new head of children’s services says social workers should bypass their managers and go to him with concerns about their cases.
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Ofsted is considering introducing a “whistle-blower hotline” for social workers in light of the Baby P tragedy, the watchdog’s chief inspector said today.
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The approach to the restraint of young people in young offender institutions, secure training centres and secure children’s homes (under-18 secure estates) is to be overhauled, the Government announced today.
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Social workers in nine town halls were today judged to be incapable of safely looking after the children in their charge safe.
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Social services managers in Birmingham are in no doubt about the size of public backlash against plans to close three day centres used by more than 140 adults with learning disabilities.
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Health workers and police have joined forces with a north-east local authority to launch a new training programme to help protect children from abuse.
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Aberdeen City Council’s under-fire social work department has been praised for saving £900,000 in four months by reducing the number of children it has placed in care outside the authority’s boundary.
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MG ALBA announced today that it has commenced the roll out of Freesat box provision in residential care homes throughout the Western Isles.
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Aberdeen City Council has rubber-stamped a £24.5m package of cuts as it struggles to overcome its financial crisis.
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