Foster carers are fighting to gain the same rights as other local authority workers and calling for greater legal protection, after Norfolk County Council was ruled to have acted unlawfully in removing two teenagers from a placement without consultation.
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The Audit Commission has pointed out problems councils are having in giving individual people their own budgets to spend on social care.
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A cross-party inquiry examining the prospects for looked-after children has been launched by Labour MP Lisa Nandy and Conservative MP Edward Timpson.
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Children’s social services have the worst recruitment and retention difficulties in local government, the annual council workforce survey has found.
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A London social worker in her fourth decade of supporting vulnerable people walked away with the top honour at the Social Worker of the Year 2010 awards event in Bedford at the weekend.
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A SCOTTISH National Care Service would help the elderly remain at home longer and end Scotland’s postcode lottery of care, Labour politicians claimed yesterday.
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A new trust is investing £50m in Scotland to improve the lives of young people leaving care and the lives of people with dementia, it has been announced.
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The Highland Council has been criticised after spending over £2m on a scheme to build five new care homes – only for the project to be scrapped.
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The head of social work in Dumfries and Galloway has insisted service provision will not be sacrificed to reduce spending by £780,000.
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A CONSULTATION on the future of two residential homes for adults with learning difficulties, could result in the closure of one, or both, of the sites.
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