REC: Skills Shortage Blights Social Care
The nursing and social care sector is suffering from a severe skills shortage, according to a new survey.
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The nursing and social care sector is suffering from a severe skills shortage, according to a new survey.
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Gloucestershire CC has refuted a Commission for Social Care Inspection report that raised “serious concerns” about its adult safeguarding work.
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Lincolnshire social services made no mistakes in the case of a woman who left her toddler son home alone – a review has found.
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Birmingham City Council has been ordered to make “robust and sustained” improvements to its children’s social care services following the deaths of 15 youngsters from abuse and neglect.
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A senior doctor is to be put in charge of overseeing dementia care in every hospital in England as part of a government drive to improve diagnosis and treatment of the condition.
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A PROJECT to help firefighters in East Yorkshire spot signs of child abuse could be rolled out nationally following its success.
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The manager of a Somerset care home has been charged with murdering three of her elderly residents. Rachel Baker, 44, a registered nurse, was charged in connection with the deaths of Francis Hay, Marion Alder and Lucy Cox at Parkfields care home near Glastonbury. She is also facing 11 counts of possessing a controlled drug, thought to be morphine.
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Eight local authorities were judged “inadequate” for safeguarding in Ofsted’s annual performance assessments during December. Janaki Mahadevan investigates what steps each authority has since taken to improve child protection.
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Police are investigating allegations of abuse at an elderly people’s home in Bristol. Five former care workers at Kingsmead Lodge in Shirehampton are understood to have given statements on practices that they claim to have seen at the care home.
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MENTAL health patients have fled from a Manchester hospital ward four times in four weeks. The M.E.N has been contacted by the anxious relatives and friends of three patients on Oxford ward, at Manchester Royal Infirmary, concerned about poor security on the unit.
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