So You Want To Work In Social Care?
Career opportunities are expanding as social services heads into the new century, finds Debbie Andalo.
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.
Read MoreSocial care for elderly and disabled people in England is being rationed so severely that councils are supporting only the most needy, campaigners say.
Read MoreThe deputy manager of a pre-school stole thousands of pounds from parents who gave her cheques to pay fees.
Read MoreThe government has dismissed calls for a new charity inspectorate to scrutinise the performance and effectiveness of charities.
{mosimage}The call came from Martin Brookes, the director of research at New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), which advises wealthy donors on which causes to support.
He said charities are failing to “adequately record and monitor” the impact of donations. The effect, Brookes said earlier this week, was that millions of pounds a year in public donations to good causes may be going to waste.
What is needed, he said, is a new body running in parallel with the Charity Commission, to produce performance data and rank charities by the value for money they deliver from donations.
But a spokesman for Phil Hope, the cabinet office minister responsible for charities, said the proposal would result in “unacceptable red tape” and insisted that efficiency and effectiveness is already being sufficiently studied by the Charity Commission.
“The government doesn’t believe that a new institution to assess and improve the performance of charities is neccesary or the right way forward,” the Cabinet Office spokesman said.
Read MoreChildren’s social and mental health services in Plymouth are to receive a £5.4million cash boost from two pioneering Government projects.
Read MoreMental health hospitals in Leicestershire are set to receive a £3 million revamp, it emerged today.
Read MoreA doctor in the United States has been charged with causing the death of a five-year-old boy from Plymouth after he gave him a controversial chemical treatment for autism.
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