Delegates gather for international rape summit
Angelina Jolie and Foreign Secretary William Hague are to co-chair the largest gathering ever brought together on the subject of sexual violence in conflict. The global summit – End Sexual
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Category: Care News
Serious Care Review due on Orchid View care home
A Serious Case Review (SCR) will be published today after five elderly people died after suffering neglect at a scandal-hit care home riddled with “institutionalised abuse”. A press conference this
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Child poverty measurement ‘particularly lamentable’
The Government’s plans to end child poverty are doomed to failure, its adviser on social mobility has warned as new estimates revealed the UK will be home to 3.5 million
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Dramatic increase in Scots using food banks
The need for food banks is a “stain on our national conscience” with reliance dramatically increasing in Scotland, a charity report has found. Changes to the welfare system, low wages,
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Gloucestershire council to consult on further social care cuts
Social care in Gloucestershire is being targeted by the county council which said it wanted to cut £75m from its budget over the next three years, according to the BBC.
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Equal rights pledge for Wales’ 370,000 carers
Carers in Wales will have equal legal rights to those they look after when a landmark Welsh law comes into force in April 2016, the Deputy Minister for Social Services,
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Teenagers with disabilities lack appropriate support, warns CQC
There is “no excuse” for providers and commissioners of care to ignore national guidance that supports young people who are disabled or have long term health needs move from children’s
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NSPCC: 99% of children still give evidence from court buildings
Thousands of child sexual abuse victims are being left frightened, depressed and even suicidal after giving evidence in court – 25 years after a major government inquiry said they should
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SCR makes over 30 recommendations to prevent future ‘institutionalised abuse’
More than 30 recommendations have been made in a Serious Case Review (SCR) to prevent a repeat of the ‘institutionalised abuse’ which led to the death of five elderly people
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Neath Port Talbot social worker struck off
A Neath social worker has been struck off the Register for Social Care Workers by a Care Council for Wales Conduct Committee for failing to carry-out checks on foster carers.
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