Southport school care worker found guilty of assaulting autistic boy
A CARE worker at Peterhouse School dragged a severely autistic boy across the floor by his head, magistrates heard.
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A CARE worker at Peterhouse School dragged a severely autistic boy across the floor by his head, magistrates heard.
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An official ceremony has celebrated the opening of Hillfield House, a new 34-person dementia care home in Burton, Staffordshire.
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A government adviser for the elderly has admitted that the system for elderly care is not yet working in a “satisfactory” way.
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A SOCIAL worker who virtually emptied a vulnerable woman’s bank account of thousands of pounds has been struck off.
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An increasing number of independent care homes for the elderly are being closed because of the recession, council leaders are warning.
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The new president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, Kim Bromley-Derry, has rejected Lord Laming’s call to consider a national case management system for social workers.
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The government has ruled out an inquiry into a Kent-based children’s home that heavily sedated girls who later had children with birth defects.
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Care of the elderly is a professional job. Assisting medication, feeding, changing, bathing, even using hoists demands a level of expertise we expect in the care of some of our most vulnerable people. But when Panorama went undercover in some of Britain’s biggest homecare suppliers we found carers with little more training than they needed for a job in a burger bar.
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Carers Direct (www.nhs.uk/carersdirect) is a new service recently launched on NHS Choices as part of the government’s New Deal for Carers. The service is designed to improve support for the UK’s growing number of carers.
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READING reports of an 11-year-old boy “fighting for his life after a vicious attack”, we cannot help wonder what sort of person would cause such injuries to one so young, and to his even younger friend.
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