LGA latest to warn of crisis in adult social care system
The LGA is the latest local government lobbying organisation to call on the Government to urgently reform the adult social care system.
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The LGA is the latest local government lobbying organisation to call on the Government to urgently reform the adult social care system.
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Individual budgets and the wider personalisation agenda have been around for quite a while now. They have had a mixed journey, and at times they have been hijacked and presented as a panacea for the problems of the wide public services portfolio.
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A dying mother has appealed for more time with her children after being banned from seeing them for more than 90 minutes a fortnight.
TWO social workers have been arrested amid claims that one of them tried to sell cocaine to cops at a police party. The women – who were employed by Manchester council – are alleged to have openly used cocaine in front of officers.
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The current system for accessing and funding adult social care is overly complicated and financially unsustainable, London Councils warned today.
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The elderly could be asked to pay an ‘inheritance levy’ of up to £12,000 to help fund a revolution in old age care. Proposals will be unveiled within weeks in an attempt to end the scandal of an estimated 60,000-plus pensioners a year being forced to sell properties to pay for care home places.
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Police are searching for two young girls who went missing from separate care homes over the weekend. Natalie Mustafa, 12, who had run away earlier in the week, was last seen leaving her care home, Ingleside Children’s Home in Mayfield Road, South Croydon at 10.05am on Tuesday 11 June.
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AN EIGHTH serious case review has been launched in Doncaster after the death of a baby who was known to the council’s beleaguered children’s services department.
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Social services chiefs in Northumberland are to strengthen their child protection workforce as part of nationwide efforts to avoid a repeat of the Baby Peter scandal in Haringey.
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THE woman brought in to safeguard Island children was for ten years the boss of a social services department heavily criticised in a report issued just months after she left.
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