OAP wins landmark free care case
A landmark ruling on free personal care could pave the way for scores of other legal cases where elderly people may have been overcharged by local authorities.
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Category: Care News
Alan McEwen: Keeping track of sex offenders in our midst
IT WAS a computer handed in for repair which led police to uncover Scotland’s worst ever paedophile ring. The discovery of child pornography on engineer Neil Strachan’s PC triggered an 18-month investigation which ended with eight men convicted of a horrific catalogue of sex abuse against children.
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Deadline fast approaching for managers of care home and adult day care services
Care home and adult day care services managers registering with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have until 31 May 2009 to get their applications submitted to meet the Scottish Government deadline for required registration.
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Report finds ‘lack of knowledge’ in social work coverage
Four in ten newspaper reports about social work breached the PCC editors’ code of practice and more than half were negative, according to research by a trade magazine.
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Sue Ryder Care calls for action on end of life care
Sue Ryder Care has called on the Government and NHS to strengthen their commitments to improving the provision and equality of access to end of life care
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Glowing report wins praise for West Dunbartonshire Council’s social work
SOCIAL work services in West Dunbartonshire were given a glowing report card from auditors. Inspectors rated the local authority’s performance as ‘good’ in nine out of 10 evaluated areas and the other was scored as ‘adequate’.
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Fred McBride appointed as Aberdeen’s head of social care
An official who commissioned an investigation into the death of toddler Brandon Muir in Dundee has been appointed to Aberdeen City Council’s new social work director post.
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GPs in Wales face social care role under review of services
The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) is developing a ‘rural practitioner’ role that would make GPs in parts of Wales responsible for social care services as well as health.
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Adoption charity removes ‘retarded homophobes’ slur
Britain’s leading adoption charity was forced to apologise and amend an official guide after it branded critics of gay adoption “retarded homophobes”.
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Government says child and family social workers can be hired from abroad
Child and family social workers can continue to be hired from abroad after the government accepted the findings of the Migration Advisory Committee’s review.
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