Doctors told to detain children in hospital if they suspect abuse
Doctors should detain a child in hospital if they suspect abuse and alert key agencies, such as social services and police, according to guidance published today.
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Doctors should detain a child in hospital if they suspect abuse and alert key agencies, such as social services and police, according to guidance published today.
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Seldom can so many inquests have been held over a single, tiny, corpse. Last night BBC1’s Panorama carried out yet another, under the title, “Baby P – the whole truth?” The question mark conveniently allows for a further such investigation, whenever the public mood demands it.
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A senior social worker harassed four female colleagues while boasting he was irresistible to women, a tribunal heard.
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FIFTY new jobs are to be created for people interested in becoming home care assistants. The roles come off the back of Swindon Council’s decision to appoint a new firm to care for elderly residents in the soon to be completed Maple Court complex in Moredon and three other sheltered Swindon housing schemes.
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Children’s workers employed by Coventry Council have threatened to hold a strike over feared job losses. Following a meeting on 29 April with the union Unite, staff in the authority’s children’s and family education service said they were prepared to take industrial action over proposed council budget cuts.
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Urgent questions about how Britain should care for the 1.25 million adults in social care will start to get better answers from today with the opening of the School for Social Care Research.
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Key details that might have saved the life of Baby P were revealed by his own mother on videotape – but never passed to police, the BBC has learned.
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LIVERPOOL is to get its first dedicated rape crisis centre in more than a decade when a new centre opens in the city next week.
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Lord Laming, one of the country’s leading experts on child abuse cases, has warned that social services need to act quicker and more decisively to protect youngsters like Baby P on the “at risk” register.
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Social services are intent on bundling into care homes as many of the elderly as possible. Olga Craig reports.