Schools failing as many as 28K autistic children
Thousands of children with autism are being illegally excluded from school, new research suggests. Youngsters with the condition are being asked to stay at home, miss out on school trips
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Half of people with dementia suffer malnutrition, new report
A new report released today reveals that under nutrition is a major problem among people with dementia, and highlights the importance of nutrition in dementia care. Under nutrition can occur
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Sutton Council propose cuts for adult social care and children’s services
Members of Sutton Council’s strategy and resources committee have backed a budget that freezes council tax for 2014/15 but outlines cuts to care services. Spending cuts have been proposed in
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Social services management ‘tendency to blame care workers for errors’
Birmingham social services management and other children protection agencies have been accused of having a ‘tendency to blame social workers’ when things go wrong in a review of the city’s
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Clinic counsellor claimed abortion ‘can make you an abuser’
Women at a London abortion clinic have been told having terminations can make them more likely to sexually abuse children they may have later, an investigation has revealed. An undercover
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Vulnerable ‘being let down’ over Bradford social care helpline
One in three people phoning a Bradford Council helpline to request social care are not having their calls answered, according to a new report. The situation has been branded “appalling”
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133 jobs to go as Leicester axe 23 children’s centres
Leicester City Council are to axe 133 posts at 23 children’s centres in a bid save £3.4 million. Staff were due to be told which posts will be cut following
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Council retains care home company despite rape convicion
A care home where a worker raped three vulnerable women was dumped by social services – but its directors have another firm which earns almost a third of a million
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Slough Council children’s service failures ‘widespread and serious’
Slough Borough Council has been told there are ‘widespread and serious’ failures in its looked-after children services. Ofsted has ranked the authority inadequate, saying its social care services have not
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Social care workers pay lagging behind in London
Two thirds of London boroughs are yet to be accredited as London Living Wage employers; of the third that are accredited there has been slow progress in applying fair wages
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