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Kidwelly sex cult members face long jail sentences

By BBC10th March 2011News Wales

Members of a sex cult in a small Carmarthenshire town have been warned they face long prison sentences.

Conwy Council ‘facing social services shortfall’

By North Wales Weekly News10th March 2011News Wales

PEOPLE receiving home help and day care from Conwy County Council will only have to pay £50 a week when new Welsh Assembly Government measures are implemented.

North Wales students denied funding to study social care in England

By The Flintshire Chronicle10th March 2011News Wales

STUDENTS in North Wales are being denied funding for courses available to everyone else in the UK, claims an angry Flintshire woman.

National standards set to boost status of independent sexual violence advisers

By Children & Young People Now10th March 2011News England

Training body Skills for Justice has announced plans to boost the profile of independent sexual violence advisers.

Parents to get budgets to spend on special needs children

By guardian.co.uk10th March 2011News England

Campaigners warn that cuts to council funding will reduce services for children with special needs

Norfolk mental health support team axed

By EDP2410th March 2011News England

Norfolk County Council’s mental health home support team were told this week the service would be wound up by September, with the loss of 23 jobs.

Calderdale Council: Vulnerable adults to lose free social care

By The Yorkshire Post10th March 2011News England

About 700 “least needy” vulnerable adults in Calderdale will lose their free care as the council lifts its social care threshold from those with “low” needs to those with “moderate” ratings.

Barnardo’s to run welfare services at centre for failed asylum seekers

By Children & Young People Now10th March 2011News England

Barnardo’s has agreed to run family welfare services at the government’s planned pre-departure accommodation centre for failed asylum seekers.

Church of Scotland teacher banned for assaulting vulnerable boy

By STV10th March 2011News Scotland

A teacher who assaulted a vulnerable pupil at a Church of Scotland school after an argument over a packet of crisps has been banned from the profession for life.