Adults that are not married and those individuals that do not have kids of their own are being kept on target, in order to help strengthen foster care services in a Welsh province that is at present trying hard to attract potential foster parents.
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THERE were emotional exchanges yesterday at a council meeting as parents made an impassioned plea to save a Monmouthshire care home from closure.
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Britain’s first coalition government since the Second World War will fast-track £6bn of cuts to come in the current financial year in order to cut the public deficit.
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The public services union, UNISON, is calling on politicians to pay attention to the views of social workers who have set out their key priorities for improving child protection. In a survey they called for more support and manageable caseloads.
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CARE home bosses have been criticised for leaving elderly residents to endure 11 days without hot running water after the boiler packed in.
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The Church of Scotland’s General Assembly will hear how the council responsible for providing care services has dealt with not so much a wind of change but a force-nine gale in the 12-months since last year’s gathering on the Mound.
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A north-east cancer charity has been awarded more than double the amount of funding it had requested towards the creation of its new headquarters.
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A 50-year-old Bedfordshire man died in a car fire in the grounds of a care home in Cambridgeshire, a coroner has said. Fidelis Mando, of Plaiters Way, Houghton Regis, was in the car which caught fire at Dray House care home in Cambridge Road, St Neots, on 1 May.
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The co-owner of a Herefordshire care home has been arrested on suspicion of neglect. Madhu Menon owns Rosedale Retirement Home in Ross-on-Wye with her husband.
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The Scottish Government is investing £1.6 million of crooks’ cash in a new project that aims to prevent young people on the brink of anti-social behaviour or criminal activity from offending.
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