Three Scottish foster carers are among the first in the UK to take advantage of a new training course which promises to help professionalise their role and improve the care they provide for some of the country’s most disadvantaged children.
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AN ideas book has been developed by a city university think tank to help carers in their daily work.
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Staff at Scotland’s largest local authority will face disciplinary action and have sick pay removed if they breach new rules on absenteeism.
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COUNCILS ACROSS Tayside and Fife last night said they are doing all they can to help families with low incomes as part of the fight to eradicate child poverty.
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NHS Highlands and Islands have launched an initiative to target the number of patients suffering from long-term conditions.
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FIFE Councillors were forced to abandon a social work meeting this week after interruptions by home care campaigners led to chaos.
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A NEW £1million purpose built facility providing respite care for adults with learning difficulties has been officially opened in Dungannon by the Health Minister.
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HEALTH chiefs will meet on Friday to discuss the impact of responses to proposals to close residential care homes in the North West.
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A father whose two children were abused by a teenager placed with the family by Vale of Glamorgan Council has criticised the public for subjecting the social services department to a ‘witch hunt’ and baying ‘for the wrong blood’.
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Child victims of trafficking have been found across Wales, says a new report today. The children were either known or suspected to have been exploited through being forced to work in restaurants and takeaways, in the production of cannabis, in sexual exploitation, in begging and in domestic servitude.
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