Social care needs 3.5% increases ‘just to keep pace’
Social care budgets need real-terms annual increases of 3.5% just to keep pace with the ageing population, according to a pre-budget briefing from the King’s Fund.
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Social care budgets need real-terms annual increases of 3.5% just to keep pace with the ageing population, according to a pre-budget briefing from the King’s Fund.
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AN “exceptional” social worker will keep his job despite admitting a violent attack on his wife. Tafadzwa Dzinoruma also transferred money through the bank account of a service user to “solve his own personal family difficulties”, the General Social Care Council has revealed (GSCC).
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The shocking catalogue of failure of Salford’s under-fire children’s services is today revealed. A scathing report by Ofsted inspectors has branded a key part of the children’s services as inadequate – for the second time in four years. The government could now bring in an outside team to take over.
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The battle between the chief education inspector and the Government has deepended after the head of Ofsted warned she will not quit.
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Long-serving social workers at Nottinghamshire county council have had their annual leave cut by three days.
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Stoke-on-Trent social services officers have apologised to a wheelchair-bound woman after a social worker falsely claimed she could walk and look after herself.
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The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has launched the new report ‘Good practice in social care for refugees and asylum seekers’. The report and accompanying resources will support commissioners and providers of social care services in working effectively with this seldom heard group.
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If ever there was a scandal which called for the full glare of publicity it is the highly secretive system which allows thousands of children to be sent for forced adoption, writes Christopher Booker.
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The government is being urged to protect already “drastically under-funded” fostering services in next week’s emergency Budget.
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UPGRADING eight care homes that face closure would cost the taxpayer more than £9 million, it has emerged.
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