Inspection report on children’s services published
A new report examining how well services for children and young people are performing in Orkney has been published today (Monday 20 May). The Care Inspectorate was asked by Scottish
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UK spends £2bn housing families in temporary accommodation
Councils in twelve of the UK’s biggest cities have spent nearly £2bn housing families in temporary accommodation over the past four years, investigators have reported. Figures collected by the Bureau
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Uni childcare expert set to visit Turkey
A CHILDCARE expert from Strathclyde University is travelling to Turkey to help the country modernise its systems for looking after youngsters. Dr Ian Milligan, international lead with the Centre For
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Pensioner died after care home blunder, coroner told
A care assistant admitted failing to comply with care home policy when using specialist equipment to lift an elderly man who later died in hospital, an inquest has heard. Samuel
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Call for contributors to National Kinship Care survey
Children 1st are inviting kinship carers across Scotland to take part in a survey on the National Kinship Care Service. As many people will be aware, the National Service is
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Rise in care fees ‘bad for Glasgow’
THE leader of Glasgow City Council has attacked plans to increase care home and nursing care fees as “not in Glasgow’s interests.” Gordon Matheson was speaking as city councillors “reluctantly”
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Multi-million pound investment approved for Aberdeen care facilities
Investment in vital social care projects totalling more than £22million has been approved by Aberdeen City Council. Social Care and Wellbeing Committee members unanimously backed capital spending on two ongoing
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BASW urges new Chief Social Worker to work with wider social work sector
BASW has urged the newly appointed Chief Social Worker for Adults in England, Lyn Romeo, to work closely with her soon to be revealed counterpart for children if she is
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Children ‘failed on a grand scale’ by Coalition
Children are being “failed on a grand scale” by ministers, leading doctors have claimed, as they called for an inquiry into the state of child welfare in Britain. Cuts to
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Social care staff get fire training after pensioner’s home burned down
HEALTH and social care workers are getting up-to-date fire safety training following the death of a pensioner whose house burned down. John Strains shunned all efforts to persuade him to
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