The Western Health and Social Services Trust is to close two of it’s nine children’s homes to save money. The facilities facing closure are to be identified shortly. There will then be a consultation period.
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A PLAN to close four day centres as part of a “new direction” for older people’s services in Leeds has been given the go-ahead by senior councillors.
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She was left to die on a flea-ridden mattress above a pub after her cruel mother neglected her for months. But despite being alerted to toddler Tiffany Wright’s torment almost a year earlier, social services did not even bother to visit the tot and try to rescue her.
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Older people and the vulnerable are being promised better social care and shorter waiting times following a raft of changes which will overhaul the way assessments are carried out and save £1.2m.
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Record numbers of women are giving birth in prison – with the figures doubling in the past four years. In 2005 there were three babies born to women in HMP Cornton Vale, rising to five the following year and then seven last year. This year there have been six already and more are expected.
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A COUNCIL cash compromise is leaving kinship carers worse off, it was claimed yesterday. According to the Kindred Spirits group, the only people the weekly £45 payment helps, are those who were coping financially anyway.
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A CARE home where residents had to eat cold meals and walk through food left on the floor has been threatened with enforcement action.
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More than 4,000 children aged five and under were suspended from primary schools in England last year, prompting calls for teachers to have greater powers of restraint over violent and disruptive pupils, including toddlers in nursery classes.
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The chair of a new “super charity” has called on managers to forge closer links with social services to ensure older people stay in hospital for the right length of time.
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The number of watchdog bodies in Scotland is to be cut by at least a quarter, from 11 to five. There are currently 29 audit, inspection and complaint agencies, employing 950 people and costing almost £60m a year.
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