Demand for managers in fast-growing sector
A new graduate trainee scheme will be providing the social care management executives of the future. What does it offer?
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A new graduate trainee scheme will be providing the social care management executives of the future. What does it offer?
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SOCIAL workers were involved with an eight-year-old girl found hanged in her bedroom since the day she was born, the Post understands.
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Aberdeen City Council has drawn up detailed plans to help improve the support it gives to children in care. It is hoped that the upcoming “corporate parenting charter” will help protect looked-after children and improve their chances of staying in education.
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Detectives investigating the alleged abuse of children at the Rocking Horse Nursery in Nottinghamshire have made an arrest over an allegation of sexual assault, police said.
Referrals and calls from the public about at-risk children have soared in the wake of high-profile child death cases, figures show. Several council social work departments attributed the rise to concerns about alcohol and substance abuse.
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CALLS are growing for a public inquiry into Haringey Council’s social services department, in the wake of revelations a child was placed in foster care with relatives of a Muslim terrorist.
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In social work at present it never rains but it pours. At a time of continuing public scrutiny, the last thing the sector needs is to be told that nearly half of those frontline social workers who plucked up courage to blow the whistle about poor practice or workplace problems subsequently reported that their employer failed to tackle the issues raised.
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Social services bosses last night promised a thorough investigation into how an eight-year-old girl on their books came to be found hanged in her bedroom.
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Deputy Minister for Social Services Gwenda Thomas looks at a project which aims to improve the lives of disadvantaged children.
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The number of foster carers in Aberdeenshire is to double over the next two years after the council’s social work arm reset targets to increase the number of people trained to work with the region’s most vulnerable children.
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