BASW has expressed its surprise that just one of 167 social workers banned from practising by social care regulators across the UK has reapplied to join the social care register, restating its belief that “rehabilitation is a vital tool in the social work armoury”.
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The number of heroin addicts in Scotland has increased by at least 4,000 over the last five years — and Dundee has the second highest rate of problem drug users in the country.
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A BUSINESSWOMAN-turned-philanthropist has pledged £1 million to an autism research centre at one of Scotland’s leading universities.
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The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) was engaged in a series of meetings with the failed care homes provider Southern Cross prior to the transfer of operations of the homes to other businesses.
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All 22 councils in Wales have blasted Welsh government plans to reduce the number of local safeguarding children boards to six.
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Children’s campaigners have welcomed the government’s latest strategy to improve services for missing children and their families.
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Committee says government has failed to make clear what will happen if another provider gets into financial difficulty
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A council has been fined £5,250 for causing “a significant amount of avoidable stress and frustration” to an autistic teenager and his mother.
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The Department of Health is still unclear over repercussions when social care providers fail, says a public accounts committee report, and suggests personal budgets become law
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A Northern Ireland health visitor put vulnerable children at risk of harm after failing to act to protect them from violent and alcoholic parents, it has emerged.
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