Older people’s services need shakeup as budgets shrink
Services for older people need to be radically rethought if the needs of an ageing population are to be balanced with budget cuts, campaigners said today.
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Services for older people need to be radically rethought if the needs of an ageing population are to be balanced with budget cuts, campaigners said today.
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Professionals must be better trained to spot the signs of children being exploited, it has been claimed.
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ENFIELD Council celebrated achieving a top award for its care of the disabled last week. The borough was awarded Beacon status for its work helping disabled adults live independently last year.
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A social worker who admitted taking on two full-time jobs simultaneously, but denied she had been dishonest in not telling both employers, has been cleared of misconduct by a General Social Care Council conduct committee.
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Social workers in Derby have lost their battle with the city council to keep allowances for the use of private cars, with Unison agreeing to call a halt to industrial action.
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A CARE worker who claimed benefits totalling over £60,000 has been jailed. Joy Rukyemampunzi, of Saint Dunstan’s Close, Hayes, was sentenced to six months imprisonment and ordered to pay £10,000 in compensation to Hillingdon Council after admitting to five counts of benefit fraud.
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DISTRESSED residents, their families and staff from district care homes facing closure or a sell-off have held emergency meetings.
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THE first phase of Southport’s £5m state-of-the-art dementia care facility has been completed. A brood of chickens were the first residents to move in to Birch Abbey – described as the UK’s most advanced dementia care resource.
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A new head of children’s services at Cambridgeshire County Council has been appointed. Adrian Loades succeeds Gordon Jeyes as the new executive director of children and young people’s services.
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LOOMING Government spending cuts will force social services to find more efficient ways of helping vulnerable residents, managers have warned.
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