Wokingham & Reading Council care teams under fire
The death of Baby P caused Reading’s social services team to buckle under pressure and led to the poor care of a vulnerable baby boy who died of a cot death.
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The death of Baby P caused Reading’s social services team to buckle under pressure and led to the poor care of a vulnerable baby boy who died of a cot death.
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A disabled rights campaigner has criticised county council proposals to raise £600,000 by increasing the cost of social care services, branding them “immoral”.
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A SOCIAL worker who was found with photographs of boys under his supervision in various states of undress will be allowed to continue working with vulnerable children.
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Carers and community groups are hit as a flagship Conservative borough seeks to ‘do more with less’
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Safeguarding children board finds Kirklees council staff could not have foreseeen abduction by her mother, Karen Matthews
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The £23 million local social work improvement fund will be available to local authority children’s services in 2010-11, the new Department for Education has confirmed in a written parliamentary statement.
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Three old people’s homes are likely to shut and others sold off to private companies under a county council shake-up affecting all but one of its remaining residential care homes.
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A social worker has been removed from the social care register for frequently accessing pornography at work during his time employed by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London.
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A decision by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to end ring-fencing of the AIDS Support Grant means an uncertain future for HIV social care services, the National Aids Trust (NAT) said today.
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Social Services directors are warning they will speak out strongly on behalf of people who need care if spending cuts prevent them getting support. The warning comes in a letter to the Care Minister sent at the same time as a briefing paper to all MPs and 400 peers setting out what the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services see as their four key priorities.
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