A third of UK children (3,582) have been separated from their brothers and sisters when placed in foster care during the last financial year, according to childrens charity, Action for
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More than half of councils in England have placed children leaving care in the past year in bed and breakfasts for at least 28 days, figures show. The figure of
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More than twice as many people in the UK develop dementia under the age of 65 than previously thought, according to new figures. More than 42,000 people are suffering from
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Scotland’s social care regulator has served a formal improvement notice on an Ayrshire-based care at home service. The Care Inspectorate has informed the service, HRM Homecare Services Ltd, of six
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The Northern Irish Social Care Council (NISCC) have released details of a major conference on Transforming Your Care taking place in November. The conference – Transforming Your Care and the
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A care worker has been charged with attempted murder after staff and residents at an old people’s home were taken ill. Melissa Swift is further accused of making threats to
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More must be done to tackle the problem of hundreds of runaway children found in and around railway stations, a report by MPs has said. In one recent 17-month period,
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Defects in the system responsible for the care of a toddler as well as “prolonged neglect” were factors which contributed to his death, an inquiry has found. Declan Hainey’s body
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The lord mayor of the City of London, Fiona Woolf, has been named as the chair of the independent inquiry commissioned by the Government into historic child sex abuse. Ms
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Beleaguered South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner (PCC) Shaun Wright has been urged to resign by councillors in the biggest local authority in his area as they unanimously passed a
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