A new approach to care and support – based on the recent green paper – will involve tough talking and some even tougher decisions, warns Jenny Owen, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
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The government’s campaign to recruit 5,000 more social workers has already attracted 6,800 enquiries, just a week after it launched.
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The Baby Peter tragedy has made a positive impact on the number of young people entering the child welfare profession, says Kent County Hall’s social work chief.
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The number of adults falling victim to verbal, sexual abuse and financial exploitation in Edinburgh has increased by more than 70% in six months.
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Public Health Minister Shona Robison is expected to be taken to task today over the shock decision to close a specialist dementia care home in Aberdeen.
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Adoption and fostering services in Aberdeenshire have received a glowing report from inspectors. Officials from the Care Commission praised Aberdeenshire Council’s handling of adoption and fostering cases after an inspection earlier this year.
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EDUCATION leader Marilyne MacLaren has branded the council’s social work department “broken” amid fresh evidence of it failing dozens of vulnerable children in the city.
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SOCIAL work chiefs have defended their decision to allow four children who were described as living like “street urchins” to be returned to their parents.
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A charity which helps children and adults with the behavioural disorder, ADHD, may have to close because they have no money.
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A PANEL of experts brought in to oversee the work of Swansea Council’s children’s services department says the authority needs to show “far more urgency” in dealing with the problems.
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