Care home nurse cleared on appeal of assault charges
A JUDGE yesterday cleared a nurse convicted of assaulting two vulnerable patients.
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Children removed in Ilford people-trafficking raids
Twenty-eight children have been placed in police protection after officers targeted a gang of suspected child traffickers based in east London.
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Councils look at merging services to cut costs
Two Scottish councils are looking at merging several key departments, it has emerged.
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Care Commission to introduce single quality theme inspections for low risk services
To ease handover of the Care Commission’s work to the new scrutiny body that comes into existence on 1 April 2011, the Care Commission will implement single quality theme inspections for low risk services from October 2010.
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Jobs pledge to all NHS staff was rash
When is a rise really a cut? Politicians are very sensitive about “the C word”, especially when elections are in the offing. Gordon Brown spent an entire summer avoiding it.
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Launch of Ceridigion mental health plan
The strategic launch of the Ceredigion Emotional and Mental Health Promotion Action Plan 2010-2013 has taken place at the National Library for Wales, Aberystwyth.
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Images of lives in care – exhibition of work by young people opens
A new exhibition of photographs reflecting young people’s images of their lives in care has gone on display in Aberdeen.
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Campaigners slam UKBA plan to clamp down on child asylum seekers
Children’s rights campaigners have branded UK Border Agency (UKBA) proposals to remove child asylum seekers from the UK before they are 17 years old as “shocking”.
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Duns respite unit feels the pinch as cuts begin
NURSERY education for three-year-olds in the Borders will not now be provided because of £2.45million of council cuts.
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Drop-in social work surgeries explored as part of radical study by think tank
The feasibility of setting up community “social service surgeries” and criminal records checks for council tenants is to be explored, as part of a study to be carried out by an independent think tank.
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