MORE than £1m is to be invested in services and support for adults with autism in Wales. The three-year funding follows recommendations made by the adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) task and finish group and is designed to help adults fulfil their potential.
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Ministers have ‘significantly underestimated’ the costs of providing free care to eldery people that are most in need, social services chiefs say.
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A flagship new progressive care centre to serve the people of Mull and Iona moved a step closer today. Argyll and Bute councillors have approved the Council’s contribution of more than £1.2 million towards the long-awaited scheme – £845,444 from the Social Work Capital Programme and £356,000 from the Strategic Housing Fund.
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A SCHEME that aims to reduce the likelihood of men convicted of domestic violence from reoffending has won a national award.
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Angry parents accused Aberdeen City Council of a lack of interest in disabled people after councillors failed to turn up to a meeting which discussed the axeing of a “vital” support service.
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Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has slammed local authorities for their poor performance on caring for looked-after children.
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A social services employee who failed to tell his manager a colleague had been having sex with an underage girl has been suspended for a year.
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THE cost of looking after people in Plymouth with dementia could rise nearly £2million by 2012. The increase is a massive jump of more than 45 per cent in what the city pays to care for its rising population of dementia sufferers.
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has helped launch a new pilot scheme to enable asset rich but cash poor older people pay for additional support at home, which could help to make their lives easier and allow them to stay in their own homes for longer, rather than move into a care home.
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An investigation has been launched into the woman’s sudden death at Littlestone Lodge in Dartford. The nurse was on duty at the time and was found by staff at around 6pm on Sunday evening.
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