NURSING and care homes in Wirral are warning of a legal challenge to council plans to reduce their fees. Owners and managers fear the reduction could see homes across the borough closing as a result of the drop in their income.
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Academics and politicians have reacted with anger after a girl seeking asylum was detained in Dungavel and then moved to a detention centre in England, avoiding a judicial review started in Scotland.
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The Balmers, who ran Rosepark Care Home in Uddingston where 14 residents died in a fire, have walked free after charges against them were dismissed.
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A care home nurse has been found guilty of assaulting an 80-year-old woman for refusing to take a tranquiliser. Stirling Sheriff Court was told Gape Ramotadina, 39, twisted the hand of dementia sufferer Margaret Kirk at Bannockburn’s Fairview Nursing Home.
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Three social workers were suspended today after a youth with a history of sexual offences was placed in a home with two young children.
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A SOCIAL work degree at Swansea University has received the lowest rating in Britain by students who were asked to “mark” their own courses.
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Vale of Glamorgan Council has said ‘there are no excuses’ after it placed a disturbed teenager in foster care with young children he went on to abuse.
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Teachers contacted child protection officials after a pupil complained of abuse by four older boys at the 627-year-old school last week.
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Birmingham City Council and Housing 21 continue to buck the economic trend by working in partnership to construct a new multi-million pound extra care housing development at The Meadway, Yardley – the second one in Birmingham in a month.
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Families who care for young people with severe learning difficulties say they are at crisis point after care was cut back at a Bradford Council-run respite centre.
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