THE SNP opposition are calling for the chairwoman of Highland Council’s social work committee to resign if plans to build five new care homes in the region are scrapped tomorrow (Thursday), as expected.
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AROUND 150 children are now subject to social care protection plans in the county – a big rise on figures for the same time last year.
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The Priory Group, the UK’s leading independent provider of mental healthcare, has released more details of its ambitious growth plans for care homes for older people in Northern Ireland.
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As UK forces continue to suffer casualties in Afghanistan, a rehabilitation centre at St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan is helping soldiers injured both there and and in Iraq.
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A social work student who was convicted of a string of frauds totalling more than £70,000 has been removed from the social care register.
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Six immigrants have been given the sack after being caught working illegally at Wolverhampton City Council, it was revealed today.
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Hundreds of children seeking asylum in the UK have been deported unaccompanied to other European Union (EU) nations without due consideration given to their welfare or rights, CYP Now has learned.
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NINE Liverpool day centres are to close as part of the biggest shake-up in social services the city has seen in the past 60 years.
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New regime expected to save £1.4bn by 2015 by incentivising work and turning down applicants, to dismay of charities
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A UNIVERSITY Campus Suffolk lecturer and child protection expert has appeared in court on child pornography charges.
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