Foster Care Contracts ‘Overpriced’
Children’s services departments are paying £100m a year over the odds on contracts with companies providing fostering and residential care services, it has been claimed.
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Children’s services departments are paying £100m a year over the odds on contracts with companies providing fostering and residential care services, it has been claimed.
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A specialist centre which helps women recover from mental health problems caused by sexual abuse could be shut down.
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The body of a 67-year-old man has been found following a fire at a private nursing home in Hampshire. Emergency services were called to Kitnocks House in Curdridge, near Southampton, on Thursday night.
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TWO young women filmed their sickening abuse of old people to entertain their friends. A court was told how the two former care home workers tormented their victims, both suffering from severe dementia, pinching them, pulling and contorting their faces, pushing a mobile phone at one woman’s face and putting their fingers in the mouth of another.
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The deputy manager of a care home where a young resident choked to death on a ham sandwich was secretly doing another job at the time, a court was told today.
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Over three quarters of British adults rate social care as importantly as the NHS, a survey has revealed.
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The former Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Rt Rev Richard Holloway, has come to the defence of social workers, saying the profession has become modern Britain’s scapegoat for society’s ills.
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Foster carers have been put at risk by not being told that the babies they are looking after could be HIV positive.
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People who care for loved ones with dementia are set to benefit from a further eight specialist nurses this year.
A DERELICT care home is being demolished to make way for a new 60-bed facility in Appleton. Work has started to pull down Chestnut House and the new care home and day centre will open by March 2010, providing 75 jobs in the area.
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