Government plans for former offenders to mentor prisoners as part of its ‘rehabilitation revolution’ must be backed up with effective recruitment, investment and training, a leading academic has said.
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Employers need to do more to protect social workers from emotional burnout, BASW warned in the wake of a report highlighting ‘life expectancy’ in the profession is just eight years.
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Doctors are refusing to carry out tests for dementia as they believe it is pointless as there is no effective cure available, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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Special measures are needed for more than 600,000 Greater Manchester residents – more than one in five – living in extreme poverty, says a new report.
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Care services minister, Norman Lamb, appoints peer to carry out review of Liverpool Care Pathway after months of denunciations
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THE manager of a residential nursing home in Tadworth has criticised the watchdog that issued a damning report into the provision of care at his facility.
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New Wirral health and social care watchdog to be launched New Wirral health and social care watchdog to be launched
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CHILDREN 1ST has responded to the latest report on the Savile abuse allegations, calling on everyone in Scotland to do what they can to protect children.
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FRESH reports have been made to detectives about sexual attacks carried out in the 1950s by Alexander Gartshore, the convicted child rapist believed to have murdered Coatbridge schoolgirl Moira Anderson.
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THE manager of a Scottish care home, accused of causing the premature death of an elderly patient, has been suspended from the nursing profession after being labelled a potential “risk and danger to the public.”
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