AT LEAST 600 Scottish babies a year are judged to be at risk of abuse before they are even born, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. Official figures reveal that in the last year, 331 unborn babies were placed on the official child protection register, many of them because of their mother’s drink or drug problems.
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SENIOR councillors have admitted that the cost of five new care homes could rise even further than the £27.2 million reported this week to Highland Council’s housing and social work committee.
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FIFE Council’s £40 million care home replacement scheme will begin with a new care home for Kirkcaldy. The town has been selected as the location for the first new home following a meeting last month.
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FOURTEEN staff have been axed after a council probe into joke e-mails about Gary Glitter. The sacked workers include child protection staff at South Lanarkshire’s offices in Rutherglen and Hamilton.
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About 330 children had to be referred to Social Services in Londonderry over a 12 month period because of domestic violence, according to the NSPCC.
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Ninety jobs are to be lost with the closure of a respite care centre for disabled people. The Jane Hodge centre in Trerhyngyll, near Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, will close in January after fulfilling its Christmas and New Year bookings.
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STAFF at Neath Port Talbot Council have clocked up around three centuries worth of time off sick in just one year. Between them, the authority’s employees racked up an estimated 106,200 days off in 2007/08.
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The National Autistic Society (NAS) has launched a guide to assessing and supporting adults with autism after the charity’s I Exist campaign revealed a widespread lack of understanding and training in the condition amongst social care professionals.
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The head of children’s services in Suffolk has said vulnerable children are at greater risk because of overburdened social workers and high vacancy rates.
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A University of Lincoln expert is helping to shape understanding of social care issues around the world after being selected to serve on the editorial board of an international journal.
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