Charity fund to tackle youth unemployment
A CHARITY fund worth hundreds of thousands of pounds is to be spent on an attempt to reduce Scotland’s youth unemployment rate.
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Glowing report for River Clyde Homes
RIVER Clyde Homes has received a glowing report for its sheltered housing accommodation across the district.
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Disgraced Dumfries child care worker struck off after “grooming” concerns
A DUMFRIES care home worker has been struck off after concerns he was “grooming” a vulnerable child. Scott Millar, 46, breached several regulations while employed as a care worker in a home for troubled children.
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Winterbourne View abuse: Castlebeck vows “care home scandal won’t be repeated”
THE DARLINGTON-based owners of scandal-hit care home Winterbourne View have vowed that the catalogue of abuse at the hospital would not be repeated at any of its other homes.
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Adoption rate for toddlers hits 35-year-high
The number of toddlers and young children being adopted has risen to its highest level for 35 years amid a Government drive to move more children in care to stable families.
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Hopeful Steps to reach out and help those who are in despair
A THIRD annual Hopeful Steps memorial walk is being organised by Scottish Borders Council and NHS Borders on Saturday, September 15, as part of Suicide Prevention Week 2012.
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New clinical appointment at Stirling dementia centre
The Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling has appointed its first Clinical Research Professor of Dementia Studies.
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Family aid agency faces the axe after funding cut
A support service which works with 150 families across west Belfast has vowed to fight funding cuts which will see it close in October.
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Wales ‘has framework in place to help its most vulnerable children’
Wales now has a framework in place to help its most vulnerable children, Deputy Minister for Social Services and Children Gwenda Thomas says.
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Winterbourne View SCR: Put social workers at the heart of care for adults with learning disabilities
Following the publication of the serious case review on Winterbourne View, the private hospital where abuse of patients with learning disabilities was uncovered through secret filming by the BBC Panorama programme, BASW has called for services to be localised and for social workers to be integral to their provision.
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