SHANNON: Kirklees Childcare Services Reviewed
THE conviction of Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan for the abduction of Karen’s daughter Shannon, has led to a review of child protection services in Kirklees.
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THE conviction of Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan for the abduction of Karen’s daughter Shannon, has led to a review of child protection services in Kirklees.
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Camden council’s chief executive is to oversee a government taskforce set up to investigate social work practice, training and recruitment.
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WORK will start next summer on a new 40-bed care home in Retford after permission was finally granted following a lengthy planning saga.
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Accusations and proposals are thick in the air following the appalling death of Baby P. But the system as a whole is not proven broken by even this awful tragedy, writes Maggie Atkinson, president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services
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A JUDGE has called for an inquiry into why Social Services did not intervene in the case of four Mansfield children neglected by their mother and stepfather.
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SOCIAL services staff have been told to “whistleblow” in order to prevent a repeat of the failings which led to the death of five-month-old Alisha Allen.
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Sharon Shoesmith, the director of children’s services at Haringey Council, has been dismissed immediately and without compensation in the wake of the devastating inquiry into the death of Baby P.
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AN American academic gave such a moving speech on child protection to health bosses that he was invited to hold a master class in Edinburgh.
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For the first time, all local authorities in England have been rated and ranked on their approach to adults with autism.
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The head of Ofsted has admitted the organisation needs to take some responsibility over the death of Baby P in Haringey and vowed she was “not washing her hands of it”.
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