Edwin Poots urges care home staff to blow the whistle
Health Minister Edwin Poots has urged workers with any knowledge about alleged abuse of vulnerable adults at a Londonderry care home to come forward.
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Health Minister Edwin Poots has urged workers with any knowledge about alleged abuse of vulnerable adults at a Londonderry care home to come forward.
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A care home in County Londonderry is to close with the loss of 41 jobs after its new owners decided the building does not meet required standards.
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Health chiefs are to press ahead with a new ‘out of hours’ system for social workers — despite the objections of professionals.
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A support service which works with 150 families across west Belfast has vowed to fight funding cuts which will see it close in October.
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Old people just grow lonesome / Waiting for someone to say, ‘Hello in there, hello.'” So wrote the poet and singer John Prine. He might have had the levels of homecare provision in mind.
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People who grew up in the worst years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland are more prone to suicide, according to research at Queen’s University Belfast.
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The authorities in Northern Ireland are failing young people who are at risk of getting involved in crime, a report has found.
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NEW research launched by the Resurgam Partnership (made up of the PHA, Resurgam Community Development Trust and Lisburn City Council) on the 20th of June found that 75% of those attending three post-primary schools in Lisburn leave school without five or more GCSEs, which include English and Maths, and very few go onto university or college.
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Edwin Poots, as Health Minister, has published proposals for a radical series of changes across the whole range of health and social care services. The 99 recommendations are a matrix of interdependent changes found in Transforming Your Care (TYC): the Compton report.
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Social workers, social services teams and voluntary organisations were honoured at the Social Work Awards in Northern Ireland in June. The regional awards event featured two winners from the Belfast HSC Trust – its Regional HIV Social Work Team and Harry Murphy, a social worker with adults at the Beech Hall Day Centre.
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