AN ABERDEEN nurse has been struck off after lying to colleagues and a health watchdog about a care home resident’s back injury. Deepa Francis was on duty at the Tor-na-dee care home when a patient fell.
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CCTV footage shows a missing toddler may have been taken to Scotland by her parents. The PSNI have released CCTV images which they believe show Lucy ANderson, 30, fleeing with her little daughter Sophie Anderson, and also her 22-year-oold father Stuart Creaney.
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NHS trusts which were heavily criticised for their failure to protect Baby Peter have made “significant progress”, a watchdog has reported.
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The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) has announced it will continue to support the residential childcare sector through a new service headed by Jonathan Stanley, former manager of the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC).
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Former residents of council children’s homes are set to win a multi-million pound compensation payout for alleged sexual and physical abuse stretching back more than 30 years.
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A coroner criticised Britain’s largest care home provider after a pensioner died as a direct result of ‘inexcusable failures’ at the hands of their staff.
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The coalition government has controversially decided to press ahead with plans to cap the court fees for independent social workers (ISWs), BASW Online has learned.
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Until now, adult social care has struggled to demonstrate its worth and to quantify the return on government investment in it. The Ascot could change all that, says David Brindle
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Children’s social care staff at Surrey County Council were on the brink of taking industrial action last year due to excessive caseloads and a lack of management support, the public sector union Unison has claimed.
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The Scottish NHS could face making more cut-backs than its counterpart in England as the impact of the asault on the UK deficit bites, a think tank report has warned
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