Pembrokeshire County Council have confirmed today that they are conducting an investigation into how a 96-year-old woman went missing from Cilwendeg Care Home in Boncath on Tuesday night.
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One of the first single women to be allowed to adopt in the UK has been convicted of child cruelty. The 43-year-old pushed her 12-year-old boy’s face into a plate of spaghetti and kicked him on the floor, a court heard.
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A NEW hotline where people can report at-risk children has been launched in the Capital. Residents will now be able to call one number, whereas previously, callers in different parts of the city had to use local area office numbers.
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A long-established Fife charity which provides help and advocacy for people with dementia and mental health problems will close in June.
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A CRUMBLING Aberdeenshire care home will be replaced with a multimillion-pound unit. Members of Aberdeenshire Council’s social work and housing committee backed a plan to build a 60-bedroom care home to replace authority-run Blythewood House at Port Elphinstone during a meeting yesterday.
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A BRAVE grandmother who was the victim of a horrific rape is still fighting for compensation almost three years after her ordeal.
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RESIDENTS at a Perthshire nursing home are to benefit from a sensory garden in the grounds.
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The Scottish Government has announced that managers of care home services and managers of adult day care services must register with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) or another relevant regulatory body by 30 November 2009.
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CHILD protection in Swansea has improved — but still has a very long way to go. That was the verdict from the Assembly Government’s director of social services, Graham Williams, as a review of children’s social services in the city was formally presented to councillors last night.
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Third sector providers of social care services face a host of new challenges but also opportunities following the Government’s commitment to expanding personal budgets* in social care.
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