Charity professionals could be answer to DCS shortage
Children’s professionals working for charities could become directors of children’s services (DCSs) to tackle a potential recruitment crisis, according to a report.
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Children’s professionals working for charities could become directors of children’s services (DCSs) to tackle a potential recruitment crisis, according to a report.
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Reforms are being introduced to the way social services in Wales are reviewed and inspected. The changes announced by the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales follow consultations with local authorities and social care providers.
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A warning has been issued that jobs could be at risk at a residential care home at Norham, near Berwick, because of the slump in the car industry.
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Today sees the launch of a new campaign to tackle the issue of child sex abuse. National campaign manager Rebecca Wasinski sets out her ambitions for Stop It Now! Wales and explains how she plans to work with the public to prevent children from coming to harm
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Charities yesterday called for greater choice for terminally ill patients after the first Scottish Government report of its kind revealed more than half of all cancer patients die in hospital.
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A care home owner accused of assaulting a teenage girl in his care in a Somerset street and later head-butting her has failed to turn up in court for the third time.
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A MERSEY care home forged inspection documents and sent in the owner’s daughter as a “bogus” inspector, a tribunal heard yesterday.
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Scots with hearing problems will now benefit from new national standards of service provision set in place for the first time in the UK.
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A CAMPAIGN has been launched to highlight the abuse suffered by adults who are unable to protect themselves from harm.
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CITY leader Jenny Dawe has paid tribute to city social workers. In her monthly leader’s report, Councillor Dawe said: “Child protection is an area where finely balanced decisions require to be taken and where, sadly, there is sometimes no margin for error.
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