Aberdeen City Council Pledges To Improve Social Work Services
Aberdeen City Council has vowed to work in partnership to drive up performance in its social work services.
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Aberdeen City Council has vowed to work in partnership to drive up performance in its social work services.
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IT IS 1am, and the relentless banging sound made by an angry prisoner trying to kick in his cell door echoes through the cell blocks and shows no sign of abating.
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The Department of Health is launching the first stage of a £10m drive to tackle binge drinking with a TV campaign about the units of alcohol in different drinks.
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Adult social care, on which the Prime Minister has just launched a public consultation, is widely considered a financial timebomb. A postcode lottery, social care for the elderly and vulnerable is both expensive (£13bn) and bad.
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A nurse has been cleared of sleeping on the job while in charge of dementia patients at a care home.
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EMBATTLED Health Minister Mary Harney yesterday insisted there are currently no plans to axe 1,000 bureaucratic jobs in the Health Service Executive.
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Alzheimer Scotland is launching its brand new fundraising campaign entitled Care for a Curry?
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As the prime minister pledges to make social care for the elderly fairer, BBC News correspondent Jon Leyne recalls his mixed experiences of NHS care after his mother fell at home.
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A tree has been planted in memory of a Penwortham social worker killed last month. Fellow workers from the Preston Supported Tenancy Scheme in Harewood Road planted the magnolia during a special ceremony to remember Philip Ellison.
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A MAN was jailed yesterday after he conned the benefits system out of nearly £80,000 for 36 bogus children.
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