40 Disabled Workers Face Losing Their Jobs
BOSSES have vowed to try to find alternative employment for dozens of disabled workers who face losing their jobs under plans to shut a factory.
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BOSSES have vowed to try to find alternative employment for dozens of disabled workers who face losing their jobs under plans to shut a factory.
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MERSEYSIDE is reviewing social services cases jointly held by councils, police and health authorities following the death of Baby P. At the suggestion of Merseyside Police’s chief constable Bernard Hogan-Howe, the force along with councils’ children services and PCTs are reviewing all jointly held cases.
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The appalling life and death of Baby P has touched a national nerve in a way that the deaths of other babies killed by their parents or carers did not, even though their plight was equally shocking. Perhaps one reason is that the council involved with Baby P was Haringey and the link to the Climbie case, in the same borough eight years ago, was an easy one for the media, even though the cases and the context were different.
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A University of Lincoln expert is helping to shape understanding of social care issues around the world after being selected to serve on the editorial board of an international journal.
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New prostitution laws to be set out today will mean a plea of ignorance is no defence for men facing prosecution for buying sex from a woman who has been trafficked or is being exploited by a pimp.
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The head of children’s services in Suffolk has said vulnerable children are at greater risk because of overburdened social workers and high vacancy rates.
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A MIDLAND homecare agency has had its registration cancelled by an industry watchdog after care levels were found to be “well below acceptable levels”.
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STAFF at Neath Port Talbot Council have clocked up around three centuries worth of time off sick in just one year. Between them, the authority’s employees racked up an estimated 106,200 days off in 2007/08.
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FIFE Council’s £40 million care home replacement scheme will begin with a new care home for Kirkcaldy. The town has been selected as the location for the first new home following a meeting last month.
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People with learning difficulties face “personal, systemic and routine” discrimination across the criminal justice system, from arrest to release from prison, and are more likely to be victims of miscarriages of justice, according to a new report.
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