Social worker Andrew Charles Mills has been suspended from the HCPC Register for falsifying the case records concerning two service users whilst working in one of the children in care
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Provisional figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show 344,000 patients in England had a recorded diagnosis of dementia in 2013-14. This is a rise from 319,000
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Councils are warning that changes to rules which govern how local authorities safeguard people receiving care and support could have a detrimental impact on the vulnerable and push social care
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A fresh definition of the skills and knowledge required by child and family social workers has been unveiled by the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families as part of
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Care workers at Care UK in Doncaster have begun new strike action today for two weeks, after the company refused to discuss a wage rise this year. The action comes
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A nursing home in Northamptonshire has been referred to the Health & Safety Executive after an inspection found it was running scalding hot water into its baths without staff realising.
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has drafted guidance on how the 46,000 health and adult social care providers and services that it regulates across England can meet the government’s new
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Following the recent merger between Skills for Care and the National Skills Academy for Social Care (the Skills Academy), a competitive process to select a new Chair from November has
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Skills for Care have announced details for this years Care Accolades, rewarding the best in social care. They provide an opportunity to share best practice enabling the sector to make
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All schoolchildren adopted from care are to benefit from £20 million of additional pupil premium money to get the support they need to thrive at school – helping around an
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