Newcastle Drug Rehab Centre Set For A MoveNewcastle Drug Rehab Centre Set For A Move
A drug rehabilitation centre has closed because managers want a new base offering addicts residential care.
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A drug rehabilitation centre has closed because managers want a new base offering addicts residential care.
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A Derbyshire charity has been given an internationally-recognised accolade for the quality of its service.
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Unnecessary child protection checks and other bureaucratic barriers are wasting the potential of volunteers in public services, Gordon Brown’s volunteering tsar, Lady Neuberger, will say today.
The Liberal Democrat peer, brought in by the prime minister when he took office to be the government’s volunteering champion, will urge hospitals and other providers to break down their resistance to using volunteers.
In the first of a series of reports, on health and social care services, Neuberger says that too often organisations are demanding Criminal Records Bureau checks on all potential helpers.
“This is clearly unnecessary. Checks should only be undertaken where a volunteer might spend time alone with young people or vulnerable adults. Managers need to show some common sense and stop, for example, requiring CRB checks for people working on hospital radio stations,” the report says.
“Insurance and other legal considerations do seem to have created a level of risk-aversion throughout all management levels in health and social care services.”
Neuberger, a health spokeswoman in the Lords, was one of two senior Lib Dem peers brought in as so-called goats (as in Government of All the Talents) by Brown, along with Lord Lester, the lawyer who advises on constitutional reform.
Read MoreA Charity that helps people with learning difficulties is having to cut some of its services because of a lack of funds.
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The deputy manager of a Derby care home stole nearly £5,000 by raiding the bank accounts of three elderly and disabled residents.
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Police searching a Jersey care home where it is claimed children were raped and flogged in underground chambers are expecting to break into a second bricked-up cellar this week.
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Leading independent schools are hiding their special needs provision to avoid being swamped and protect their league table ratings, according to an influential guide.
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Relatives of elderly people in care homes under threat of closure have enlisted the help of a top lawyer.
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A fast-track method of allowing minor offenders to pay fines in order to avoid a court appearance is being introduced today as part of sweeping reforms of Scotland’s summary justice system.
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TWO children are facing court appearances following a disturbance at a secure unit, it emerged last night.
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