Councils ‘capping’ care places for vunerable children
Vulnerable children could be missing out on care home placements because local authorities are capping places, a leading residential care expert has claimed.
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Vulnerable children could be missing out on care home placements because local authorities are capping places, a leading residential care expert has claimed.
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The average UK council has more than one-in-10 social work posts vacant while one English authority has a vacancy rate of almost 40%, new research has found.
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A council will have to foot a £750,000 legal bill for a court case in which a disgraced social worker lied, leading to her criminal past being exposed.
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There is a widespread lack of awareness about social care, confusion about how services are funded and a lack of preparation or planning for future care needs. These are the key findings from research by the Institute for Public Policy Research and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
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Taxpayers will have to foot a legal bill approaching a million pounds after the court case involving hitman-hiring social worker Lynda Barnes.
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Some universities are heightening the risk of another Baby P tragedy by giving social work degrees to students who lack the basic skills needed to protect children, MPs were warned today.
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An older people’s charity has called for “radical reform” to tackle what it calls a growing care crisis facing the elderly, their families and carers.
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There is a broad consensus, which includes the government, that the present system of social care funding is untenable. Yet with the publication of the green paper expected next week, there is little agreement or clarity about how social care should be funded for the future, with minimal evidence-based discussion about what will actually work. Instead, the preoccupation remains with satisfying short-term political and economic considerations.
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A care home in Northampton has shut following “significant concerns” about the level of nursing care being offered to its elderly residents.
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A former resident of Haut de la Garenne was spared jail today for sexually abusing other boys at the Jersey care home. Michael Aubin, 46, who was born in Jersey and lives in Southampton, carried out the attacks while he lived at the home in the 1970s.
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