The dozens of domestic abuse incidents reported to police in Fife during the first week of December were probably just the ”tip of the iceberg”, Fife Women’s Aid has said.
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Cash earmarked for support services for vulnerable people in south west Scotland could be used to help balance a budget for refuse collection.
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Ten Glaswegians, who have been long-term unemployed, successfully completed a training scheme organised by Cordia and Glasgow Regeneration Agency to become home-carers for the front line services provider.
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The chairman of the Northern Health Trust, Jim Stewart, has been sacked. It is the first time that a senior health manager has been removed from his post at a Northern Ireland trust.
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We must encourage a culture where people are confident to report their concerns or else scandals like Winterbourne View will continue to happen, by Steve Scown
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BASW is advising social workers not to blur professional boundaries during the festive season and to think about the consequences for their own privacy and safety.
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BASW’s Special Interest Group (SIG) on Alcohol and Other Drugs has produced five pocket guides, to put basic information, hints tips and reminders, literally into the hands of frontline practitioners.
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Services have been cut or frozen by two-thirds of local councils since coalition came to power, according to ComRes study
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Report warns that care sector risks slipping back into institutional culture typified by Victorian asylum system
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Recent successes in reducing crime and reoffending rates across England and Wales could be jeopardised by cuts to the youth justice service and by the marginalisation of the social work role, MPs have been warned.
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