HE TOOK half a day to die. Brandon Muir, a fortnight shy of his second birthday, lasted 12 hours after a fatal blow from his mother’s boyfriend. He was to spend his final hours standing, punished, against a wall; then propped up against a toilet as adults partied; and, finally, lying cold and alone under a coat on a settee.
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Care charges for elderly and mentally-ill residents at homes in the north and north-east are to go up by 33%, it emerged yesterday.
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AN OUTBREAK of salmonella at Leys Park Care Home for the elderly, Dunfermline, which affected two residents and a member of staff, is being investigated.
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Children and young people’s service heads need to get away from the office and deal with service users at the sharp end much more than they do at present, according to Children’s Secretary Ed Balls.
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A FORMER Blaenau Gwent council social worker was banned from working as a social worker in the UK after dishonestly failing to notify her employers she had been convicted of benefit fraud.
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The NSPCC will oversee an inquiry into Vale of Glamorgan Council, after a teenager with a history of sexual offending was placed with a family whose children he sexually abused.
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Social services directors have warned of major problems with a planned new, single local authority and health service complaints procedure. The new system is due to come into effect on April 1st but the Association of Directors of Social Services fears there could be delays and confusion.
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A MERSEYSIDE care home was at the centre of a police probe today following allegations dementia sufferers were mistreated. Four members of staff at Windy Knowe Nursing Home were arrested last week on suspicion of “wilful neglect”.
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Cumbria Social Services did not tell police they had been tipped off about the appalling abuse of a Carlisle toddler 15 months before her parents were arrested.
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The role of two brothers in a plan to increase care home fees has embroiled the umbrella organisation for Scotland’s councils in a conflict of interest row.
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