WRU And Police Launch Domestic Abuse Campaign
Police, rugby officials and a Gwent woman who survived years of abuse at the hands of her ex-partner launched a campaign yesterday to encourage more victims to come forward and seek help.
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Police, rugby officials and a Gwent woman who survived years of abuse at the hands of her ex-partner launched a campaign yesterday to encourage more victims to come forward and seek help.
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Families and patients face a postcode lottery when it comes to selling their homes to pay for care home costs, new research has revealed.
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A NEW service for people with a learning disability is set to open in Corstorphine. The service will provide care and support for six young people with a severe or complex learning disability.
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These are tough times and if you’ve lost your job you may be feeling disheartened by the current levels of unemployment. However, there are still more than half a million jobs available, and employers are recruiting.
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No quick fix exists for a shortage of social workers in West Sussex – said to be the main reason why the county’s child-protection services were labelled ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted inspectors.
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MENTAL health patients have fled from a Manchester hospital ward four times in four weeks. The M.E.N has been contacted by the anxious relatives and friends of three patients on Oxford ward, at Manchester Royal Infirmary, concerned about poor security on the unit.
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Eight local authorities were judged “inadequate” for safeguarding in Ofsted’s annual performance assessments during December. Janaki Mahadevan investigates what steps each authority has since taken to improve child protection.
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Many people are not getting the social care services that meet their needs fully according to a report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection. It also claims that in many areas services are not meeting the transformation vision that was set out by the Department of Health.
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The Western Health and Social Care Trust (Western Trust) officially launched the next phase of its Comprehensive Spending Review Consultation last week. The consultation will run for 12 weeks, closing at 4.00pm on 10th March 2009.
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Police are investigating allegations of abuse at an elderly people’s home in Bristol. Five former care workers at Kingsmead Lodge in Shirehampton are understood to have given statements on practices that they claim to have seen at the care home.
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