Funding Deal Saves Clydebank Hospice For Three Years
SCOTLAND’S oldest hospice has been given a stay of execution after health officials agreed not to cut its funding for the next three years.
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SCOTLAND’S oldest hospice has been given a stay of execution after health officials agreed not to cut its funding for the next three years.
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A social work chief yesterday said he would stand up and fight the planned closure of a day centre for vulnerable adults in Aberdeen if he did not believe it was the right move.
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VULNERABLE people in Denbighshire will be hit by soaring care charges, the cash-strapped council has decided. The mentally ill and elderly are the latest victims of the authority’s attempts to save money.
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The central heating at a care home was broken for 10 days just before half of its residents died, it emerged today.
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TWO young women filmed their sickening abuse of old people to entertain their friends. A court was told how the two former care home workers tormented their victims, both suffering from severe dementia, pinching them, pulling and contorting their faces, pushing a mobile phone at one woman’s face and putting their fingers in the mouth of another.
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A specialist centre which helps women recover from mental health problems caused by sexual abuse could be shut down.
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Carnoustie’s former Kinloch Primary School will be the centrepiece of a “radical new approach” to provision of services for older people.
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ANGRY carers have met Aberdeen council bosses as they mounted a campaign to keep two-day centres open. Aberdeen City Council could be closing one of two sites as part of a shake up of social services.
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Children’s services departments are paying £100m a year over the odds on contracts with companies providing fostering and residential care services, it has been claimed.
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A LEADING infection control expert has been appointed to Scotland’s care watchdog in its war on superbugs. The Care Commission inspects and regulates almost 15,0000 care services, including nurseries and care homes for older people.
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