Social work vacancies as high as 39%
Social work departments are desperately short of qualified staff – including one authority with a 39% vacancy rate – the UK’s largest public sector union warned today.
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Social work departments are desperately short of qualified staff – including one authority with a 39% vacancy rate – the UK’s largest public sector union warned today.
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The number of adults receiving council-funded residential care in England fell in 2007/08 compared to the previous year, a report from The NHS Information Centre shows.
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More than 100 projects across England aimed at bringing services for children and families under one roof are set to benefit from £200m of Government funding.
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A social worker who has helped people for more than 30 years has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list. Andrea Collingridge from Narborough provides pre-birth risk assesments to ensure children are safe before and after they are born.
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Bath and North East Somerset Council has admitted it employed a social work manager who had a conviction for conspiracy to murder.
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THE family of a former Liverpool care home manager who died branded a paedophile has failed in an extremely rare posthumous bid to clear his name.
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The current four-tier eligibility system for adult social care should be scrapped and replaced with two broader categories, the Local Government Association.
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A SPECIALIST mental health ward in Manchester is to close and its 15 patients moved. Nursing staff at the Cedars Ward, based at Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust’s Edale Unit at Manchester Royal Infirmary, were shocked to learn of the imminent closure.
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The three people convicted of offences in the Baby P case will not have their sentences referred to the court of appeal, the attorney general announced today.
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A new £7million mental health unit opened its doors at Ilkeston Community Hospital on Friday, bringing together services previously scattered across Derbyshire into one place.
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