Child traffickers may be using care homes as ‘holding pens’
A high proportion of suspected victims of child trafficking are disappearing from local authority care, according to an influential body of MPs.
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A high proportion of suspected victims of child trafficking are disappearing from local authority care, according to an influential body of MPs.
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Ofsted has published its revised plans on inspection of safeguarding and looked-after children, including unannounced inspections of child protection services in every local authority.
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Britain’s leading adoption charity was forced to apologise and amend an official guide after it branded critics of gay adoption “retarded homophobes”.
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Child and family social workers can continue to be hired from abroad after the government accepted the findings of the Migration Advisory Committee’s review.
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Four in ten newspaper reports about social work breached the PCC editors’ code of practice and more than half were negative, according to research by a trade magazine.
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Sue Ryder Care has called on the Government and NHS to strengthen their commitments to improving the provision and equality of access to end of life care
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A senior doctor today told how he had repeatedly warned about failings at the child protection clinic which missed the injuries that killed Baby P.
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The Integrated Children’s System (ICS) has failed to reduce social workers’ working hours, according to a report from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
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A private company running a Birmingham health centre has employed staff without running background checks. Care UK took control of the £3 million Greet Health Centre in Springfield when it opened last month.
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Patients suffering from terminal conditions such as cancer cannot always die at home surrounded by family and friends because they are hindered by the NHS and social care system, a report by MPs said.
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