Rotherham set to overhaul its children’s services
Rotherham Council has unveiled plans to overhaul its children’s services after an independent report showed a lack of vision and purpose.
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Rotherham Council has unveiled plans to overhaul its children’s services after an independent report showed a lack of vision and purpose.
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COUNCIL-FUNDED care places for older people will need to double as the number of over-65s rockets by a fifth, councillors agreed. But they said older people must be encouraged to live in their own homes.
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Children’s social workers are being gagged from speaking about failings in their department to avoid the glare of the media, a union leader has claimed.
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The long-awaited social care green paper has set out the government’s ambition for a national care service that could offer a basic minimum entitlement to all, regardless of financial means.
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As the Government sets out proposals to reform social care, leading mental health charity Mind welcomes the move to simplify the process and create a fairer system for the many thousands of people with mental health problems who currently pay for social care services.
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It is painfully apparent that the present system for allocating social care to the infirm elderly is confusing, overly complicated and riddled with unfairness. Under the present means-tested system in England and Wales even those with relatively modest savings find themselves forced to pay for the full cost of care. And those who do receive public support are also treated badly.
Read MoreA new campaign has been launched to persuade qualified social workers to return to the profession. The scheme is being run by the Children’s Workforce Development Council, which is working in partnership with local authorities on the initiative and will allocate funding to those taking part.
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Reform of the social care system is desperately needed and badly overdue, London Councils has said today following the publication of the new social care green paper.
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A senior social worker has apologised for a “catalogue of errors” that resulted in a criminal completing just two-and-a-half hours of community service because he had not been given any work.
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Jessie Harvey, who is a kinship carer for her grandson, says social work departments are failing to provide adequate support to vulnerable children.
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