Council reveals plans to save cash to spend on children’s social care
NOTTS County Council today reveals how it plans to cut other services to provide more support for children it cares for.
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Charity calls for smarter social care spending
Councils and health trusts could save some £3bn by closer working and better preventative spending, the charity Counsel and Care has said.
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Cumbria County Council expected to okay closure of care homes
COUNCIL bosses are expected to approve proposals to close four care homes in Barrow to make way for a multi-million pound development this week.
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Social services boss ‘quit days before facing allegations over tragic crash girl’
A council boss who oversaw the care of a teenage girl killed in a car crash resigned just days before disciplinary proceedings were due to start against her.
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Majority of social workers suffer from mental instability due to their job
More than two-thirds of social workers experience mental or emotional instability as a result of their job, according to a British Association of Social Workers (BASW) poll.
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Baby team in Derby say ‘lessons have been learned’
Social services have changed how they protect vulnerable children in Derby, after a baby was harmed by his father.
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Call for care workers across North Lanarkshire
Unemployed people across North Lanarkshire are being encouraged to consider a career in several expanding sectors.
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Fears over merging of care services in West Dunbartonshire
CONCERN has been raised that integrating council social work and social care services with the health board will be detrimental to West Dunbartonshire.
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Moyness Care Home given poorest mark
A Broughty Ferry nursing home has been given the lowest mark possible in an official inspection report by Scotland’s care watchdog.
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Borders sex clinics record unprecedented rise
CONCERNS have been raised that patients in the region with HIV are receiving “an increasingly unsatisfactory and potentially substandard provision of care”.
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