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Care UK group expects to grow

By East Anglia Daily Times20th August 2009News England

TIGHTER criteria for state funded care has hit profits at an Essex-based care firm’s community care division, but its overall trading remains “in line” with its forecasts, it says.

Overseas social workers are no panacea

By politics.co.uk20th August 2009News England

So much has been written about social work since the trial of Baby Peter’s mother and partner which attracted the attention of the media some 10 months ago.

By Nushra Mansuri

Social workers looking after adults fear a ‘Granny P’ tragedy

By guardian.co.uk20th August 2009News England

Almost two-thirds of social workers looking after adults claim they are under greater work pressure than five years ago, a union survey claims today.

Pensioners facing London ‘home care’ crisis

By East London Advertiser20th August 2009News England

THE elderly are facing a home care crisis in London because of tougher restrictions on entitlement and a shortage of care workers.

Social worker suspended over naked image claim

By The Herald20th August 2009News Scotland

A senior social worker was suspended yesterday after he allegedly sent an obscene picture to colleagues.

Minister backs Argyll and Bute mental health plan

By The Buteman20th August 2009News Scotland

SCOTLAND’S health secretary has formally approved the fourth of five options for the future shape of adult mental health services in Argyll and Bute.

Death of Dundee toddler Brandon Muir ‘could not be predicted’, says report

By The Times20th August 2009News Scotland

Social work chiefs have denied allegations of a whitewash after a report out today concluded that the violent attack on a toddler by his mother’s drug-addicted boyfriend could not have been predicted.

Demand for public inquiry into death of Brandon Muir

By The Times20th August 2009News Scotland

Child protection workers in Dundee took three weeks to hold an “urgent case conference” into the case of Brandon Muir, the toddler killed by his mother’s drug addict partner, a report on the events surrounding the tragedy said yesterday. By that time, the 23 month-old child was dead.

Social work director ‘won’t be resigning’

By The Courier20th August 2009News Scotland

DUNDEE’S DIRECTOR of social work Alan Baird said his staff have been exonerated by yesterday’s reports into the killing of Brandon Muir and that he will not resign from his post.