Plans go ahead for new Dumfries social work centre
IRISH Street could become a social work hub with the local authority looking to centralise its support services there.
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Deaf in Tayside feel “patronised”
Deaf people in Tayside feel like second-class citizens as a result of the “patronising and parental” treatment they receive at the hands of Tayside Association for the Deaf’s social workers (writes Stuart Johnstone).
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Care home plan for Welsh barracks site
A planning committee has met to decide whether to give the go-ahead to a 90- bed nursing home on the site of an army barracks later.
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Man dies in Canterbury mental health care home
A PROBE is being held into the death of a care home resident.Peter Hunt, 42, was living at Care Principles, Cedar House, Dover Road, Barham.
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Graduates offered £20K to train as social work managers
Government plans to offer graduates £20,000 to take up a career in social care will not go far enough to ease the sector’s recruitment crisis, experts have warned.
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More people on individual budgets but social care crisis still looms
The social care personalisation agenda has received a boost with news that the number of people getting individual budgets (IBs) has risen by nearly third in a year.
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Children’s services struggle to recruit social workers
Nearly 60 per cent of lead members for children’s services say it is more difficult to recruit child social workers since the Baby P case, a new survey reveals.
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Members of the public to be appointed to child protection boards
Ed Balls, the Children’s Secretary, will announce the move on Wednesday as part of an overhaul of child protection rules recommended by an independent review.
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Baby P case sparks £58m drive for ‘top quality’ social workers
Top graduates will be hired as social workers to protect the most vulnerable children under a multi-million-pound drive announced in the wake of the Baby P case today.
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Doctors told to detain children in hospital if they suspect abuse
Doctors should detain a child in hospital if they suspect abuse and alert key agencies, such as social services and police, according to guidance published today.
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