Charity Warns Of Foster Care Shortage
More than 5,000 extra foster carers need to be recruited in the UK this year to stop children being shunted from home to home and split from their siblings, a charity warned today.
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More than 5,000 extra foster carers need to be recruited in the UK this year to stop children being shunted from home to home and split from their siblings, a charity warned today.
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The minister for care services has announced new funding for research into adults with autism. Ivan Lewis announced the £500,000 research will inform the first ever government strategy on the disease among adults and their specific needs.
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A judge has criticised social workers for not helping a young mother who killed her two-year-old daughter.
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Tens of thousands of vulnerable old people are suffering appalling abuse in homes for the elderly, experts are warning.
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A Charity which helps childhood victims of sexual abuse is to restart operating in Nottingham thanks to a £10,000 anonymous donation.
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THE vast majority of doctors believe care services for older people in Wales are not good enough, according to a report out today.
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STAFF who need their cars for work such as district nurses and volunteers who take pensioners to hospitals are among the people hit with a motoring stealth tax, it was claimed yesterday.
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People may have to pay into a compulsory social insurance scheme to contribute towards the costs of care in old age under proposals floated by the government yesterday.
The health secretary, Alan Johnson, said he would produce a green paper early next year on dealing with the long-term problem of providing adequate non-medical care for a growing number of vulnerable older people.
Over the next 20 years the number of people over 85 in England will double and the number over 100 will quadruple. Nearly 2 million more people will need social care support including help with dressing, washing, shopping and eating.
Johnson said he wanted a national debate on how much the government, individuals and families should pay towards meeting the social care bill, which is expected to rise from £12.7bn last year to £24.1bn in 2026 and £40.9bn in 2041.
He said people wanted to be confident that they would get adequate support without having to sell the house for which they had “scrimped and saved” throughout a working life. But the system of free personal care that was introduced in Scotland had been found to be unaffordable.
Read MoreCity College Plymouth is hosting an event to encourage men to enter caring professions traditionally dominated by women.
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Two more council residential homes for the elderly were today earmarked for the axe to complete a hit-list of six closures.
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