Anger over disability benefit rule changes
People with learning disabilities and their supporters are to target MPs and general election candidates over “alarming and unexpected” changes to a crucial benefit.
Read More
Log In
Sign Up
Category: Care News
Offenders’ drug treatment future secured
THE treatment of drug addicts in the criminal system has been secured after the Courier highlighted the plight of a court-sanctioned programme last week.
Read More
Child abuse scandal ‘left Catholic Church with no credibility’, says Rowan Williams
The scandal over paedophile priests has caused the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland to lose “all credibility”, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.
Fury over anti-Semitism link to church abuse row
The Vatican has moved to distance the Pope from the remarks of his personal preacher, hours after he compared allegations that the pontiff had covered up sex abuse cases to the “more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism”.
Read More
Girl of 6 repeatedly sexually abused by 23 classmates
A horrified mum told yesterday how her six-year-old daughter was repeatedly stripped and sexually abused at school – by 23 of her classmates.
Read More
Documents reveal Ofsted made changes to report on Haringey
Documents released by the courts have revealed that changes were made to an Ofsted report on the council at the centre of the Baby Peter case.
Read More
Care system must improve its parenting skills, says Martin Narey
Martin Narey is not a man to shy away from controversy. The Whitehall mandarin turned charity chief has brought just as much blunt speaking to the issue of children in the care system as he did to prisons when he was head of that service in the 1990s.
Read More
Sharon Shoesmith: risking £50,000 to show she was unfairly treated
She may have been sacked 16 months ago, but Sharon Shoesmith is not going to go without a fight. The former head of children’s services at Haringey Council is not only using the employment tribunal system to seek financial redress, but also the High Court to seek a judicial review on what she sees as the unfairness of her dismissal.
Read More
Sharon Shoesmith papers released by court
Key court documents have been released relating to the sacking of social services chief Sharon Shoesmith after the death of Baby Peter in London.
Read More
Financial independence for GSCC will see costs passed onto social workers
BASW has welcomed plans to redefine the role of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) in a move that would restrict its activities to social work, but warned that a further proposal to make the body ‘financially independent’ of government will mean social workers bearing the cost.
Read More
