Councillors agree Dundee child protection plan
A child protection plan drawn up following a scathing report by government inspectors has been approved by Dundee councillors.
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A child protection plan drawn up following a scathing report by government inspectors has been approved by Dundee councillors.
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A COUNCIL bill for kinship carers is set to more than treble. That was the warning yesterday from social work bosses if a benefits scheme is opened up to everyone who could be eligible.
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THE Harry Walker Day Centre in Airdrie was officially opened recently by North Lanarkshire Depute Provost Jim Robertson. A plaque was unveiled at the Waddell Street centre, which offers day services for older people, and a special celebratory cake was cut to mark the event.
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The most influential mental health charity in the UK has joined urgent calls for counsellors and psychotherapists be independently regulated. Mind says people will be left “unprotected” if counsellors and psychotherapists are not regulated.
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The former Cheshire County Council “comprehensively and spectacularly” failed a child in its care who never attended secondary school, according to a local government ombudsman report.
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Elderly people will no longer be forced to sell their homes to pay for care under government proposals to be unveiled next week.
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Frontline clerical/admin workers in Glasgow council’s social work department began an all out indefinite strike action on 1 July. The dispute is over the failure of the council to pay the 400 workers a ‘working context and demands’ payment under a new pay and grading scheme.
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HIGHLAND Council has launched an investigation into allegations that staff have been abusing the facilities at one of their residential care homes in the strath.
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Councillors have thrown out plans to increase the size of a proposed care home for elderly people by a third, amid claims that there had been inadequate consultation and research.
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A veteran councillor has voiced fears over the number of youngsters being taken into care in the north-east after new figures revealed almost 250 are being looked after by Aberdeenshire Council at Banff, Fraserburgh and Peterhead.
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