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Death at Northern Ireland nursing home was murder

By The Belfast Telegraph3rd April 2012News Northern Ireland

The death of a 56-year-old man at a nursing home in Randalstown last year is now being treated as murder, police have confirmed.

Health bill and budget cuts imperil vulnerable children

By Children & Young People Now3rd April 2012News England

I have been grappling with the potential consequences of last month’s Budget, and of the Health and Social Care Bill, for children who are vulnerable. Children’s success or failure relies on how well adults – those close to the child and those working in services for them – bring up, educate and care for them. By Maggie Atkinson

Drug testing on arrest extended to Brighton

By BBC3rd April 2012News England

People arrested in Brighton on suspicion of a range of offences are to be tested for drugs at the city’s custody centre.

Joint secure training centre inspections to focus on restraint

By Children & Young People Now3rd April 2012News England

Secure training centres will only achieve an “adequate” rating if restraint is used as a last resort to protect young people from serious harm, under plans for a joint inspection regime between Ofsted and the prisons inspectorate.

Mistrust among professionals stunts efforts to reduce adoption delays

By Children & Young People Now3rd April 2012News England

Lack of trust between court officials and social workers, and excessive red tape are among the main causes of delay in adoption cases, according to Ofsted.

Calls for Government inquiry over adult social care failure

By The Carmarthen Journal28th March 2012News Wales

THE whistleblower whose concerns lifted the lid on some poor practices in adult social services is worried not enough has been done to correct the problems.

Concern over competency of Prestatyn care home boss

By The Daily Post28th March 2012News Wales

THE owner of a care home who experimented with alternative therapies sparked worries she was “out of her level of competency” after allegedly disposing of tissue from a patient’s wound in a general waste bin.