Social workers, social services teams and voluntary organisations were honoured at the Social Work Awards in Northern Ireland in June. The regional awards event featured two winners from the Belfast HSC Trust – its Regional HIV Social Work Team and Harry Murphy, a social worker with adults at the Beech Hall Day Centre.
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BASW has called for radical improvement to current residential care facilities, and a right for children to be cared for near to their own communities, following reforms announced by Children’s Minister Tim Loughton, to combat the sexual exploitation of children.
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The quality of care received by people in the last three months of their life has been explored in a government survey for the first time.
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Immigration inspector condemns Border Agency ‘refusal pool’, which lacks data on whether applicants stayed in, or left, Britain
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Families have expressed their fears about “devastating” proposals which could see two care homes closed down and their loved ones moved.
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A NEW “lifeline” service aimed at preventing young runaways from becoming homeless when they are older has been launched in Scotland.
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FOR years after his wife died he struggled to make it out of his front door and went for days without speaking to another person.
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The Scottish Social Services Council is carrying out a two year programme focussing on assistive technologies in social work and social care.
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SPENDING on a scheme to monitor high-risk sex offenders newly released from Scottish jails has been slashed by more than £1 million, or 90 per cent, newly released figures have revealed.
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A NEW £20 million early intervention fund will be developed over the next two years to support voluntary groups working with children, young people and their families.
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