So You Want To Work In Social Care?
Career opportunities are expanding as social services heads into the new century, finds Debbie Andalo.
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Career opportunities are expanding as social services heads into the new century, finds Debbie Andalo.
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The withdrawal of statutory services from young people who reach the age of 18 in Dublin can result in homelessness.
Read MoreThe deputy manager of a pre-school stole thousands of pounds from parents who gave her cheques to pay fees.
Read MoreA national task group” should be created in Scotland to oversee services for children in care and those living in residential homes, a groundbreaking report said today.
{mosimage}A centre should also be set up to help former victims of abuse in children’s homes, The recommendations came in an report ordered by the Scottish Executive into long-standing abuse in children’s homes across Scotland.
The report by Tom Shaw, former chief inspector of education in Northern Ireland, focused on the the period from 1950 to 1995, the child welfare regulations in place over that period, and how these were enforced.
His findings said that despite extensive and complex regulation, “the requirements weren’t wholly effective in ensuring children’s safety and welfare”. And Mr Shaw warned that problems still exist – 12 years on from 1995, with modern legislation and improved monitoring and inspection.
“In some respects you could say that everything that was identified as needing to be done in 1995 is now in place,” he said.
“And yet, the same problems are occurring, the same needs exist, and the same concerns that motivated government to legislate in 1995 still exist.”
Read MoreHard-pressed social workers are putting children before form-filling because they are so overworked. But according to Mark Roszkowski, Swansea Council’s head of child and family services, they have no choice because the department is so short-staffed.
Read MoreMore than 9,000 were sent on courses to try to curb the drug abuse that led them into crime and anti-social behaviour.
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.
Read MoreLocal authorities in Wales are being given £3m to assess future childcare needs, it was announced yesterday.
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 MoreMental health hospitals in Leicestershire are set to receive a £3 million revamp, it emerged today.
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