BASW England’s Mental Health Group has produced a report on the experiences of social workers in multi disciplinary mental health teams, highlighting a mixed picture of support for practitioners, with those receiving excellent backing overshadowed by those getting nothing at all from their employers.
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People working in voluntary organisations and local government are downbeat about the government’s hopes that the big society will produce a marked increase in active citizenship.
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ONE of Edinburgh’s longest-running day centres is celebrating its 25th anniversary later this week.
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A multi-million pound care home in Aberdeen run by the Church of Scotland’s social care arm has been nominated for a top design award.
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Emergency trips to hospital have increased by more than 25% among Scotland’s pensioners, despite the investment of millions of pounds extra in community care, figures have revealed.
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A new “winter of discontent” has edged closer as it emerged that thousands of care workers, catering staff and school janitors have taken the first steps towards a possible wave of industrial action by the end of the year.
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Dozen of elderly people have spent the night in temporary accommodation after fire destroyed a nursing home in the Inverness area.
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Last year 800 children in Ireland sought emergency accommodation. Two-hundred of these children were under the ago of 12.
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The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) will be staging two one-day events focusing on ‘gangs and global exchange’ in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, on 2nd and 3rd December 2010.
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A significant part of the NHS’s promised budget increase will end up being spent on social care, the body representing NHS organisations has warned.
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