Social Workers Face Intense Retraining Following Baby P
Children’s secretary, Ed Balls, has launched a Whitehall-based plan to improve children’s services, following the Baby P case at Haringey.
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Children’s secretary, Ed Balls, has launched a Whitehall-based plan to improve children’s services, following the Baby P case at Haringey.
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TORBAY’s care home industry could be devastated by cost-cutting plans. A £2.13million cut to a £36.6million budget set by mayor Nick Bye for adult social care provision would mean a 5.5 per cent efficiency saving.
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Social workers in Suffolk are to have their workloads slashed, thanks to 50 more staff being recruited in the light of the case of Baby P.
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Grow your own initiatives, where local authorities and the independent sector support their employees, or potential employees, to qualify as social workers are becoming more popular.
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If we want to attract and keep people to work as social workers, we need to give them respect for what they do, says Alan Warner.
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Serious failings in child protection could “not have guaranteed” the safety of a baby who was severely brain damaged, a critical independent report into Kingston social services concluded.
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An inquiry will be launched into children’s services at Doncaster Council, the BBC has learned. It comes after serious case reviews were ordered into the deaths of seven children in the area.
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The former head of children’s services at the centre of the Baby P case has lost an appeal against her dismissal.
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Too much regulation, too much paperwork, too little support. Richard Kemp argues that social workers must be allowed to get on with the job in a commonsense fashion if we are to limit the number of tragedies like that of Baby P
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The former director of children’s services at Haringey Council, who was sacked following an investigation into the Baby P case, has appealed against her dismissal.
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