Care Home Boss Stole £6k From Disabled Woman
THE boss of a care home for disabled people who stole £6,000 from a vulnerable resident yesterday escaped a jail sentence.
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THE boss of a care home for disabled people who stole £6,000 from a vulnerable resident yesterday escaped a jail sentence.
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Only a tiny minority of drug trials on children have an independent safety monitoring committee to pick up potentially dangerous side-effects, a study has revealed.
Researchers from Nottingham University found that under 2% of the 739 international drug trials published between 1996 and 2002 had such committees of independent experts who would scrutinise data and warn, if necessary, that it was not safe to carry on.
Among the 2%, six trials had to be stopped early because of toxic effects on the child patients.
“We were very surprised by the low level of trials that had independent safety monitoring committees and are urging pharmaceutical companies to include these in all future trials involving children,” said Dr Helen Sammons, associate professor of child health at Nottingham and lead author of the paper, published in the child health journal Acta Paediatrica.
Read MoreThe demise of the traditional family is creating a “toxic circle” of school failure, poverty and crime, teachers said yesterday.
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A study by researchers has found no evidence that the controversial MMR vaccination is linked to autism.
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DISABILITY groups have criticised a South Ockendon nursing home which employed a nurse with a conviction for violence.
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FOSTER carers who smoke have been banned from looking after children under five or disabled youngsters in Sheffield.
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A PRISONER who raped a schoolgirl while on the run was a suitable candidate for an open prison despite a previous conviction for attempted murder and his high risk of reoffending, a report said yesterday.
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FAMILIES struggling to cope with disability, bereavement or isolation will be helped by a £300,000 funding boost.
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A COUNCIL has been criticised after two young children were removed from the Child Protection Register without a proper review.
Six years ago a joint review by the Audit Commission and Social Services Inspectorate found significant failings in the running of Cardiff County Council’s social services department, which had exposed children to “unacceptable risk”. The department was put into “special measures”, but those have since been lifted.
Now the Public Services Ombudsman has upheld a complaint from the grandmother of a four- year-old girl who, together with her 12-year-old half-sister, was removed from the Child Protection Register. The children’s mother has mental health problems.
The Ombudsman’s report, in which all identities are kept anonymous, says the council argued that the children were being adequately cared for and a review would be intrusive and upsetting.
Read MoreA TRADE union has complained about problems it says have arisen since a controversial private company was contracted to look after people with learning disabilities.
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