Call For Improved Dementia Care
The NHS must urgently address failings in dementia care if it is to cope with future demands, a watchdog has said.
Read MoreThe NHS must urgently address failings in dementia care if it is to cope with future demands, a watchdog has said.
Read MoreEight people arrested in connection with failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the National Health Service, the BBC has learned.
Read MorePregnant women are being denied antenatal care by the NHS because of their immigration status, endangering mother and baby, a medical charity has found.
Read MoreA toddler choked to death on a drawstring after a nursery ignored “well-recognised risks” by hanging a cloth bag from her cot, an inquest was told.
Read MoreA union last night warned of strike chaos hitting Scotland’s biggest social work department from next week in a row about pay and job regrading involving 600 social care workers.
{mosimage}They will begin an indefinite work to rule from Monday after a ballot returned 97% of workers in support.
Social work staff and unions say a strike is inevitable because they claim David Comley, Glasgow council’s director of social work, who is about to leave his £110,000-plus-a-year post, has threatened that anyone refusing tasks will be sent home, in breach of contract.
Last night union officials warned if anybody was suspended for a breach of contract, staff would walk out.
{mosimage}According to Unison, the public services union, the city council’s workforce pay and benefits review has cut at least £1000 off social care workers’ pay with some staff losing £5000.
The average social care worker, who would assess and support care packages, currently gets paid between £18,000 to £25,000. If care workers strike, union leaders believe the vast majority of the 5000 people who work in Glasgow City Council’s social work department will support their action and will not cross any picket line.
Read MoreSCOTLAND is trailing near the bottom of an international league table measuring the quality of life for young people, with one of the worst records on poverty and teenage pregnancy, a damning report said today.
Read MoreSOME pensioners may be missing out on free care because councils are not all working to the same standards when dealing with the elderly.
Read MoreSex offenders who have admitted abusing children are being let off with a caution rather than being brought before the courts, the Belfast Telegraph has revealed. Almost 90 sex offenders have been cautioned in the province over the past two years rather than being charged.
Read MoreNorthern Ireland is facing a childminding crisis unless urgent financial incentives are introduced, Stormont Ministers have been warned. With acute shortages in many areas, representatives of the profession called on the Executive to take immediate action to halt the exodus and attract new recruits.
Read MoreChildren are being short changed on social service spending, according to research for the NI Commissioner for Children and Young People. It found the expenditure per child in NI on personal social services was £287, compared with £513 in Scotland, £429 in Wales and £402 in England.
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