Trust Asked To Bail Out Social Work
A bid well in excess of £100,000 is to be made to the Shetland Charitable Trust to help finance the provision of personal care and home helps for islanders.
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Read MoreThe number of ambulances in Scotland taking longer than an hour to reach an emergency has more than doubled since 2000, newly released figures have suggested. The statistics, obtained by Christine Grahame of the SNP, showed that 189 patients had at least an hour wait in 2005/06, compared with 71 in 2000/01.
A second senior figure has announced his departure from Scotland’s largest local authority in less than a month. David Comley, director of social work at Glasgow City Council, told staff he will leave his £110,000-plus-a-year post this summer.
One of the most important messages from the Scottish Executive’s Changing Lives Report is that more of the same won’t do. To enable and support staff to do their jobs effectively the methods and processes used in Scotland’s social services need to be informed by sound knowledge and evidence.
Read MoreScotland’s charities watchdog is to investigate the finances and operations of a child care provider which collapsed with the loss of almost 600 jobs. News that the Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator (OSCR) will meet the liquidators of One Plus comes as one of the UK’s biggest charity funders confirms it refused funding because of serious financial concerns.
Abuse of the elderly must be treated with the same seriousness as child abuse, with police receiving special training to protect older people from what has become a “national scandal”, a charity said today.
{mosimage}Help the Aged said half a million older people were neglected or abused at any one time — physically, sexually, or psychologically — but a third of people had not heard of “elder abuse” and almost a quarter had no idea what the signs were.
As The Daily Telegraph reported last week, the largest proportion of abusers are related to the person being abused (46 per cent), with 64 per cent of abuse occurring in the homes of victims.
However, almost a quarter of people surveyed by the charity were under the impression that professional care workers were the ones most likely to carry out abuse.
Only 17 per cent of those surveyed thought that sons and daughters would be most likely to abuse their parents, even though figures show that a quarter of abusers of the elderly are sons or daughters.
Read MoreThe head of the Edniburgh’s alcohol and drugs agency today called for urgent investment to end 30 years of under-funding of support services. Former deputy chief constable Tom Wood wants to see alcohol workers employed at all of the city’s 29 drugs agencies.
Read MoreA woman and two men have been charged with taking part in child abuse in Edinburgh which involved up to 15 adults. The group have been accused of raping, molesting and physically assaulting two sisters over the course of 12 years at homes in Edinburgh and a caravan park in Perthshire.
Read MoreThe first needle exchange run by the Salvation Army is to be rolled out at branches across the United Kingdom. The pilot project, set up in Stirling with the support of the voluntary group Signpost, has helped take extra needles off the streets, organisers said.
Read MoreSocial work, social care and early education and child care organisations in Scotland are being urged to enter their teams for the Care Accolades 2007. The closing date for entries to “the Oscars” or the sector is 23 February.
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