BASW has responded to the UK coalition government’s first budget by issuing a stark warning that cuts which fail to protect social work services will put the lives of vulnerable children and adults at serious risk.
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The GP who saw Baby Peter a week before he died from horrific abuse says he should have examined the toddler more thoroughly on his last visit.
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A rehabilitation unit for people with problems including addiction and eating disorders is to be the latest casualty of cuts by the Church of Scotland’s social care council.
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Liberal Democrats have insisted they are not heartless, despite moves to scrap a manifesto pledge to build five replacement care homes for the elderly.
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Dramatic photography and real life stories of drug use have been gathered in a new book by a peer education project in Dundee.
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A mother has removed her six-year-old mixed-race son from a Moray school and claimed he has been the victim of “racial hatred”.
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A major recruitment campaign to address a shortage of foster carers in Scotland has been hailed a success. Four Scottish councils pooled their resources last month to encourage potential carers to come forward.
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The treatment of people with disabilities has been called into question after a survey suggested that many doctors and nurses in the region felt those with learning diffi-culties received a poorer standard of care than the rest of the population.
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Social care budgets need real-terms annual increases of 3.5% just to keep pace with the ageing population, according to a pre-budget briefing from the King’s Fund.
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AN “exceptional” social worker will keep his job despite admitting a violent attack on his wife. Tafadzwa Dzinoruma also transferred money through the bank account of a service user to “solve his own personal family difficulties”, the General Social Care Council has revealed (GSCC).
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