Charity gets cash boost to aid homeless
Edinburgh-based homelessness charity Fresh Start will use a new £16,233 grant to keep up with demand for its services helping people make a success of their new homes.
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Fight to save Dundee adult learning centre attracts 1000 supporters
Around 1000 people have signed an online petition protesting the planned closure of the Kemback Street Adult Learning Centre.
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Call to find solutions to workforce of the future challenge
Do you have an idea that could shape the future social service workforce? The SSSC and the Institute for Innovation and Research in Social Services (IRISS) are working together to develop new solutions to the challenges facing the sector’s workforce. And your idea could become a reality if you get involved in the Workforce of the future challenge.
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Volunteering strategy for Aberdeen to be launched
Aberdeen’s volunteers and the organisations which recruit them are to benefit from refreshed best practice guidelines when Community Planning Aberdeen launches its Volunteering Strategy this month.
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Report: Intervene early to keep children out of crime
The authorities in Northern Ireland are failing young people who are at risk of getting involved in crime, a report has found.
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Higher risk of suicide among ‘Troubles children’
People who grew up in the worst years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland are more prone to suicide, according to research at Queen’s University Belfast.
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Mental health measure can lead the way to much better treatment
THE best chance mental health service users have of achieving recovery from serious mental illness is if they take control of their care and treatment.
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Grandparents torn between caring for children and elderly relatives, survey finds
Grandparents are increasingly stretched between caring for their grandchildren and looking after elderly or vulnerable relatives, a survey by the website Gransnet has found.
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The rise of social care ‘e-services’
Digital communication is playing an increasing role in the lives of social workers but, along with opportunities to share best practice and reach service users, professionals need to be aware of the pitfalls
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Louise Casey is right but social workers won’t welcome being “taught to suck eggs”
BASW has welcomed the recognition by government adviser Louise Casey that many so called “troubled” families need to be better understood and worked with, rather than lectured, but questioned why she needed to tell social workers what many professionals had long been urging the government to understand.
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