Autism Charity Launches Internet Awareness Campaign
The National Autistic Society (Nas) is starting an online drive in a modern response to trying to deal with the discrimination that people with autism face.
Read MoreThe National Autistic Society (Nas) is starting an online drive in a modern response to trying to deal with the discrimination that people with autism face.
Read MorePeople with dementia in care homes typically spend just two minutes in every six hours talking to others, according to a major report highlighting widespread failings in dementia care.
Read MorePlanned legislation to reform the care system fails to ensure abused children receive vital therapy, according to a child-protection charity.
Read MoreA Conduct Committee of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) on 23 November 2007 decided the case of a social worker from Leeds who was alleged to have breached the Code of Practice for Social Care Workers.
Read MoreThis is how Rosella Kelly looked four days after she fell at her home. Her son Paul Kelly, who released the photograph, plans legal action against the care firm he claims failed to give her proper attention.
{mosimage}He said the picture proves 77-year-old Mrs Kelly’s carer must have realised she was hurt and needed medical treatment.
Instead she was left alone at her home in Thornton until he got her to hospital.
Eight days later she died from a lung condition she already had.
Mr Kelly believes her health might not have worsened if she had had immediate medical care.
He also refuses to accept an internal inquiry by the care firm Sefton New Directions that ruled the carer had acted appropriately and within guidelines.
Bus driver Mr Kelly, from Formby, said his mother was clean-faced before the fall and, even though her eye may not have been fully blackened, the bruise to her forehead would have been obvious.
“As soon as I walked in I saw the bruise and called 999.
Read MoreA care home cheat has narrowly escaped prison after embezzling more than £5,500 from an elderly resident.
Read MoreCareer opportunities are expanding as social services heads into the new century, finds Debbie Andalo.
Read MoreNearly three-quarters of local authorities in England are rationing social services to exclude tens of thousands of vulnerable people from help with the basic tasks of daily living, official figures revealed last night.
Read MorePeople with learning disabilities are low on the government’s list of priorities, charities have claimed, after new figures reveal a shocking withdrawal of services.
Read MoreA 94-year-old dementia sufferer has won a High Court fight to force the NHS to pay her nursing home fees.
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