Birmingham social workers investigate record number of child abuse cases
UNDER-pressure Birmingham social workers are struggling to cope with a record 27,000 cases of alleged child abuse.
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UNDER-pressure Birmingham social workers are struggling to cope with a record 27,000 cases of alleged child abuse.
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LAST week’s revelations that child protection services failed to stop a boy being abused and neglected for 12 years show that an official inquiry is needed into the management of Health and Social Services, says Senator Alan Breckon.
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Records from the city council’s social services department have been found on an unencrypted USB stick in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The stick was handed in by an IT consultant to the local newspaper, the Sentinel, on Friday, after he apparently found it lying on the pavement.
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Twenty-nine children seeking asylum in Britain have gone missing from the council at the centre of the Baby P scandal in the past three years, it emerged today.
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Ten NHS trusts, four mental health trusts and an ambulance trust are not meeting the tough new standards of care that have been set by the Care Quality Commission, it was revealed as the CQC announced plans to give 214 more NHS trusts a licence to operate.
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The government has published its long-awaited early intervention report and pledged to bring in ring-fenced funding to ensure children’s trusts do more to support vulnerable children at an early age.
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The whistleblower who warned that Haringey social services were failing to protect children just six months before the death of Baby P is to stand for election there as a Liberal Democrat councillor.
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Negotiations are under way to transfer social work programmes from the University of Reading to Thames Valley University. If the plan goes ahead, social work programmes will be delivered in Reading by Thames Valley University (TVU), after terms of agreement are ratified.
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Campaigners have accused the Chancellor of failing to take “purposeful” action to end child poverty following the Budget announced today.
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Speaking at today’s Aiming High for Disabled Children Conference on Parent Participation Transforming Disabled Children’s Services, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls announced the launch of a National Parent Forum Network, which will ensure that parent forums have a stronger, more coherent voice.
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