Social Work Ignored My Pleas, Says Killer’s Mum
THE mother of the Inverness teenager who murdered 17-year-old Joshua Mitchell by stabbing him in the heart had repeatedly asked social workers to help her son.
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THE mother of the Inverness teenager who murdered 17-year-old Joshua Mitchell by stabbing him in the heart had repeatedly asked social workers to help her son.
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A senior hospital manager has been suspended after a laptop containing the unencrypted personal data of more than 20,000 patients was stolen, a health trust admitted yesterday.
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Fewer criminals in Scotland should be locked up in prisons, the long-awaited independent review of penal policy is expected to recommend.
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A campaign to raise awareness of Scotland’s National Care Standards was launched with a dramatic flourish today. As well as a TV advert, the campaign will feature a touring theatre production which will visit day centres and care homes throughout Scotland.
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The long awaited review into the future of the NHS by Lord Darzi will next week propose a big boost in the size of independent nurse-led provision of primary care, similar in ambition to the rise of independent foundation hospitals.
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An inquest has heard how a suicidal man took his own life two days after being sent home from hospital because no psychiatric beds were available anywhere in Northern Ireland.
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A JUDGE has expressed surprise that a cocaine-user with a prison record was allowed to become a care manager who went on to steal nearly £5,000 from a sick man.
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A GROUP set up by Flintshire County Council to give older people a voice has appointed a development worker. The Flintshire 50+ Advisory Group works with health, voluntary and private sectors and consults on a range of proposals and policies affecting older people.
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Two people have been arrested in connection with the long-running child abuse investigation centred around a former care home in Jersey.
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Jamie Thomas, nine, from Huddersfield, has been deaf and blind since birth. When he was born, he was very weak and had feeding and breathing difficulties. One ear was completely different from the other and he had a facial palsy.
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