Social services saved me from a life of abuse
FOR years he lived in utter isolation, was refused life-saving insulin if he misbehaved and treated like a slave by those who were meant to love him most.
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FOR years he lived in utter isolation, was refused life-saving insulin if he misbehaved and treated like a slave by those who were meant to love him most.
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A new website has been created to assist professionals who work with unpaid family carers. The site has been developed by the Princess Royal Trust.
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Detectives have arrested three people in connection with an investigation at a private care home. The Express understands the owner of Woodlands, on Nostell Lane, Ryhill, is among those currently in custody at Wood Street Police Station.
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Two reports produced today by the Healthcare Commission suggest older people are often denied access to the full range of mental health services available to younger adults and that improvements are needed to adult community specialist mental health services.
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A new framework to regulate the safety and quality of health and social care services was published today by the Department of Health, ahead of the new Care Quality Commission coming into effect on 1 April 2009.
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BIRMINGHAM’S “inadequate” social services for children at risk of abuse show little sign of improving, the city council has admitted.
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A crucial meeting has been arranged after members of a civil rights action group formed a blockade outside the city council’s social services department in Birmingham.
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Research carried out by the Association of Directors of Social Work (ADSW) has revealed differing perceptions about the range of social work services on offer in Scotland depending on personal experience.
Read MoreA Surrey social worker who had sex with a teenage girl has been struck off. Thomas Ritzler was jailed for two years and four months at Guildford Crown Court last November for sleeping with the 14-year-old.
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Inquiries into the deaths of two vulnerable babies have uncovered “systematic failings” in care services at a West Yorkshire council.
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