Charity chief says Brandon killing predictable
A Dundee child protection worker today said she strongly believed Brandon Muir’s killing was both predictable and preventable.
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A Dundee child protection worker today said she strongly believed Brandon Muir’s killing was both predictable and preventable.
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I was gutted, but it does help you,” says 17-year-old Rab Williams, of the electronic tag that he wore as part of a four-month curfew.
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FEARS have been raised over the future of services for people with mental health issues in Sevenoaks. It has emerged that the St John’s Community Health Care Centre, on St John’s Road, could be closed as part of a redesign of local healthcare, intended to lessen the stigma of having a mental illness.
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When the LSC suddenly ended its contract with Coleg Elidyr, a specialist college, many children with learning disabilities were left without a place.
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Harriet Dempster is calling for a public debate, but she may not get it on her own terms. The head of the body that represents Scotland’s social work chiefs wants to see communities and ordinary people taking more of a role in issues such as child protection and domestic violence, rather than leaving the burden on social workers.
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Drifting “predatory” males are a worrying part of a complex cocktail of social problems faced by child protection workers, according to a leading social work chief.
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Child protection workers in Dundee took three weeks to hold an “urgent case conference” into the case of Brandon Muir, the toddler killed by his mother’s drug addict partner, a report on the events surrounding the tragedy said yesterday. By that time, the 23 month-old child was dead.
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SCOTLAND’S health secretary has formally approved the fourth of five options for the future shape of adult mental health services in Argyll and Bute.
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TIGHTER criteria for state funded care has hit profits at an Essex-based care firm’s community care division, but its overall trading remains “in line” with its forecasts, it says.
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Social work chiefs have denied allegations of a whitewash after a report out today concluded that the violent attack on a toddler by his mother’s drug-addicted boyfriend could not have been predicted.
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