Independent inspectors have praised Haringey Council’s “rapid progress” in improving services. Michael Haworth-Maden, of the Audit Commission, presented the local government watchdog’s annual summary of its assessment of the council at a meeting of the executive committee.
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A radical change in culture and practice is needed to achieve dignified care for older people, says an editorial in this week’s BMJ. The welfare of older people who live in care homes has raised concern for decades in many countries, write Marion McMurdo and Miles Witham at the University of Dundee.
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Authorities at the Craigavon Area Hospital should carry out a full inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose body was hanging from a tree for over three weeks, it was urged last night.
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A top councillor has hit back at an opposition leader’s claims of a cover-up over a damning report on Bromley’s youth offenders team. Inspectors from the Government’s social care inspectorate and the Probation Service spent October and November of last year looking at the team’s work before a report was published on March 7.
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The Minister for Justice has ordered an inquiry into the circumstances of how a prisoner at the country’s maximum security jail managed to phone RTÉ’s Liveline radio programme on a mobile phone from his cell.
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Local voluntary and community organisations in England with plans to involve volunteers in the delivery of health and social care projects could benefit from the latest funding round from the Opportunities for Volunteering Scheme (OFV), a DoH initiative that provides grants to local health and social care organisations in England.
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Talks between nursing unions and health service employers have ended at Government Buildings without agreement. In a statement after the talks ended, the Health Service Executive accused the Irish Nurses Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association of rejecting a viable and workable solution to end the industrial action.
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The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) has announced that following the success of last year’s Occupational Group Funding initiative, it is making a new batch of funding available to support training and development in the children and young people’s sector during 2007-08.
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The state has no power to stop a teenage girl travelling to Britain for an abortion, the Irish High Court was told yesterday. The 17-year-old, who is four months pregnant, is challenging the Health Service Executive (HSE) which is preventing her from terminating her pregnancy overseas
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Care workers trusted to handle money belonging to the people they care for must keep scrupulous records. A bulletin published by social care watchdog the Commission for Social Care Inspection shows that, while many services have improved the way they handle people’s money, there are examples of bad practice.
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