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Anger over soaring bill for agency staff in care homes

By The Edinburgh Evening News7th December 2009News Scotland

THE City of Edinburgh Council is facing a soaring bill for drafting in agency workers to cover staff shortages in care homes, it emerged today.

Social services report to highlight need for reform

By The Western Mail7th December 2009News Wales

SYSTEMS to ensure social services departments learn the lessons of child protection failures are in urgent need of reform, a major report is expected to warn today.

Nearly 127,000 children forced to have criminal record checks each year

By The Daily Telegraph7th December 2009News England

The number of children forced to undergo Criminal Records Bureau checks has doubled in recent years in a dramatic expansion of Labour’s anti-paedophile vetting regime.

Former Cheshire director of social services takes over as head of social care watchdog

By icCheshire7th December 2009News England

A FORMER director of social services for Cheshire is to take over as head of England’s top independent health and social care watchdog.

New Law Commission chairman planning to reform adult social care law

By The Law Gazette7th December 2009News England

The Law Commission is planning ‘very important and potentially very exciting’ reforms to the law on social care for adults, the commission’s new chairman said in an interview for the Gazette.

Clash over way Earlsmoor care home plan was dealt with

By This Is South Wales4th December 2009News Wales

STAFF and union leaders have clashed with council officers over the handling of proposed closure for a Swansea care facility.

Children taken into care during cops’ crackdown

By This Is South Wales4th December 2009News Wales

OUT-OF-CONTROL children in Burry Port have been removed from their families by police and put into the care of social services.

BBC cleared over secret filming at care home

By The Press Gazette4th December 2009News Wales

A judge has revealed why he upheld the BBC’s right to secretly film in a care home for the elderly. The care home’s owner, BKM Ltd, had sought to block the broadcast of a programme entitled “Who Cares in Wales?” as part of the BBC Wales Week in Week Out series.