Man’s ad campaign over Wolverhampton care home closure
A businessman who offered £80,000 to keep a care home in Wolverhampton open has started a campaign against councillors who voted to shut it down.
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A businessman who offered £80,000 to keep a care home in Wolverhampton open has started a campaign against councillors who voted to shut it down.
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An older people’s champion is calling for a radical £7bn overhaul of the social care system to support the UK’s ageing population. Philip Spiers is campaigning for a revolutionary NHS-style system following research by Saga Magazine which predicts that 300,000 50-year-olds will celebrate their 100th birthday – a staggering 26-fold increase compared with today.
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A CRUEL social worker who humiliated an incontinent disabled man with spiteful jibes and refused to help him when he wet himself has been struck off the social care register.
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A study carried out by the autism charity, Treehouse, has revealed that there is a lack of understanding among the general public about autism.
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A strategy is needed to improve joint working between government departments and public services to rehabilitate young people with multiple needs and help them escape a life in the criminal justice system, a charity has claimed.
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A social worker accused of “colluding” with an abusive mother to silence allegations she beat her children was struck off today. The Merton Council employee allegedly befriended the woman she was supposed to be monitoring and rubbished her estranged partner’s claims their children were in danger.
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The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has hit out over a lack of commitment from politicians to protecting child protection resources.
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TEN care workers have lost their jobs and 11 elderly residents were given just a fortnight to find somewhere to live after the manager of their care home announced that it was closing.
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BASW’s Advice and Representation Service has urged social workers to be allowed to re-register while they are suspended from duties as news emerged that the two social workers at the centre of the Baby Peter case will face conduct hearings more than 17 months after investigations were launched.
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Five care homes are planned to be built in the North East in an effort to create new jobs and offer new residences for pensioners in the region. Rosewood Homes, which has just completed a 75-bed luxury care home in Gateshead, has plans to create five more residential homes over the next two years which would create over 400 new jobs.
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