Secret Past Of A Social Worker In Child Team
A Social worker forced to quit amid misconduct allegations landed a job with children in Aberdeen because of failings in basic background checks.
Read MoreA Social worker forced to quit amid misconduct allegations landed a job with children in Aberdeen because of failings in basic background checks.
Read MoreScotland’s largest city has been accused of failing to do enough to address the employment and vocational training needs of its black and minority ethnic population. A new report criticises past action in Glasgow as “piecemeal” and “start-stop” in nature in a city it says is entering a defining period in its economic and social development.
Read MoreLegal measures aimed at counteracting anti-social behaviour, known as ASBOs, come into force today. The orders are being brought into operation for children of at least 12 and below 18
Read MoreThe Government has reportedly confirmed that it is drafting new legislation to deal with the sexual “grooming” of young people.
Read MoreA new complaints procedure which aims to resolve complaints made about the HPSS (Health and Personal Social Services) more quickly has been published for consultation
Read MoreHealth Minister Dr Brian Gibbons has set out plans for a Wales-wide shake-up of social services. The assembly government’s 10-year strategy will aim to give people who need social services more say over the care or support they receive.
{mosimage}It calls for more emphasis on caring for disabled and elderly people at home and taking fewer children into care. Plaid Cymru have given it a cautious welcome but are concerned it could prove no more than a “wish list”. Social services officials at the assembly government say they have learned lessons from political rows sparked by the planned hospital shake-up in Wales.
They insist the strategy entitled Fulfilled Lives, Supportive Communities should have the knock-on effect of easing pressures on hospitals and make that re-organisation more effective.
Read MoreParents with severely autistic children will no longer have to send them outside Wales for year-round residential education. The first 52-week residential school for autistic children has opened in Bronllys, near Brecon, with spaces for eight pupils. The first pupil was due to start this week.
Read MoreCustoms officers says it has uncovered a huge illegal distillery in Cardiff, capable of producing thousands of litres of counterfeit vodka. The distillery, on the Curran Embankment, Grangetown, was uncovered by HM Revenue and Customs on Thursday.
A young woman manager who was sacked because her plan to adopt a child would make her “no bloody use” to her employers won a landmark employment tribunal case yesterday.
Read MoreThe head of the new equality commission yesterday called for race quota laws that will allow employers to favour minorities. Trevor Phillips demanded that 30-year-old rules, which forbid discrimination on grounds of race or sex, should be scrapped.
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