A proposal to close a psychiatric inpatient unit in south Belfast has been rejected by the health trust. It was suggested the Windsor House unit would close before a new facility was built. However, the trust said it will stay open until the new unit is ready.
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A NEW “home from home” to provide respite care for disabled children in Blaenau Gwent opened in Tredegar this week.
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A woman is planning to take legal action after her vulnerable mother was taken away from her home in a dramatic raid by council staff and police.
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Social care employers will get £1,500 from the Department of Health for taking on an apprentice. The subsidy is part of the government’s plan to reduce unemployment. It has earmarked £75 million to get 50,000 jobless 18-to-24-year-olds into training.
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The Government today outlined plans to “boost the status” of social care in order to cope with an increasingly ageing population.
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TWO former care home proprietors have been questioned following a dawn raid over disability benefits worth up to £358,000.
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Charges for residents in Birmingham City Council care homes have rocketed by up to £183 a week – days after the local authority said it could only afford a 49p increase in the amount it pays for elderly people to be looked after in private sector residential homes.
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A COUNCIL department set up to help some of the most vulnerable members of society has been heavily criticised for failing its charges.
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SOCIAL work chiefs have admitted defeat in trying to get a spiralling budget under control. The council department has seen its overspend rise from a reported £1.5million last August to £2.25million in February.
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The Government’s policy of increasing the level of home care for elderly people is helping a Shipley-based care group to expand.
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