Cornerstone chief Edel Harris promised last night to work with civil service and local government officials struggling with restricted budgets to provide services to people with learning disabilities.
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A community rated the most deprived in Glasgow is to get a new £9 million health and wellbeing centre. The project in Saracen Street, which is due to open in 2012, will replace the existing health centre in Denmark Street which was built more than 30 years ago.
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Driving out rogue care home operators and giving older people more control over services should be a top priority for local government, according to the care regulator.
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A care assistant has described how firefighters desperately pulled bodies out of a fire that had ripped through a care home killing 14 pensioners.
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CONTROVERSIAL plans to contract out the care of nearly 800 vulnerable people were in turmoil today after the chief executive of the city council dramatically called a halt to the scheme.
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SCOTLAND suffered 53,000 reports of domestic violence over the last year, equivalent to more than 1,000 a week. The figure was branded ‘totally unacceptable’ by the government minister responsible for tackling the problem.
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RELATIVES of the 12 residents housed at Bryneithin Residential Care Home are set to launch a legal challenge, after the Vale Council confirmed the Dinas Powys home will close.
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NO child in care was ever made to spend the night at a motorway service station, according to staff.
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Recommendations made by the government’s Social Work Task Force for reforming social care in the UK will create increased demand for locum and permanent placement social workers as local government seeks to implement the reforms, according to healthcare recruiter HCL.
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As many as 80,000 people are living in care homes or receiving services rated as only “poor” or “adequate”, according to a government inspectorate.
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