Biting, spitting, swearing and hair-pulling. These are some of the abuses courageous council staff endure in their day to day jobs. The information came to light after The Press used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain details of attacks on City of York Council workers.
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Details of how the NHS in England will spend locally what the Chancellor has called “its biggest cash increase ever” of £8bn have been published by the Department of Health (DH).
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A morbidly obese young man has died after losing his fight against a rare genetic disorder that compelled him to eat continuously. Chris Leppard, 25, died at 10.45am at the Conquest Hospital in St Leonards, East Sussex.
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Organisations providing essential services for the Herefordshire’s older residents are on the lookout for ways to improve and expand the quality and range services they provide.
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The Government has denied it plans to announce a complete split between professional training for adult and children’s social workers. At last week’s meeting of the Conservative Party’s Social Work Commission, the Social Care Institute for Excellence’s chair Allan Bowman said the move was imminent.
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A hearing into the conduct of a Registered Social Worker from Lincoln will be held on 22 May 2007 by the social care workforce regulator for England the General Social Care Council (GSCC).
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More children are being locked up in Scotland’s only asylum detention centre. Inspectors found 122 youngsters had been held at the Dungavel House unit in Lanarkshire in the first 11 months of last year, up from 94 in the whole of 2005.
The new administration in East Lothian has ordered an inquiry into the controversial £130,000 redundancy payment promised to the authority’s outgoing chief executive. The SNP and Liberal Democrat coalition has demanded that lawyers investigate the details of the payment to John Lindsay which was agreed by the council’s previous Labour administration.
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For Anne MacDonald becoming a foster parent was the fulfilment of an ambition she had harboured since childhood. Mrs MacDonald is one of more than 2000 foster carers throughout Scotland who have opened up their homes and hearts to some of society’s most vulnerable and needy youngsters.
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A nurse has been accused of performing a sex act on a pensioner at the care home where she worked. It is alleged Jessie MacPhee, 42, also told another nurse to have sex with the patient, saying: “Go on, Lynda – why don’t you relieve yourself?”
{mosimage}Shocked colleagues yesterday gave evidence against her.
They accused the senior nurse of serious acts of professional misconduct while working at Lynn of Lorne Care Home, in Benberloch, near Oban, in 2003 and 2004.
MacPhee, of Oban, faces being struck off if the Nursing and Midwifery Council find her guilty of misconduct. Yesterday, MacPhee did not attend the conduct and competence committee hearing in Edinburgh. Evidence was heard in her absence.
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