Highland Council social work boss declines additional salary
A council employee has declined the offer of extra pay for taking up a six month post aimed at helping to control the authority’s social work spending.
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A council employee has declined the offer of extra pay for taking up a six month post aimed at helping to control the authority’s social work spending.
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A social worker who filmed up women’s skirts during shopping trips for his own “personal gratification” was removed from the register today.
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The Conservatives were today accused of “scaremongering” after claiming that more than 2 million elderly people could lose out under the government’s plan to offer free social care at home to needy pensioners.
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Council chiefs in St Helens have won a landmark ruling over who should foot what is billed as the most expensive care package in the UK.
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A MAN who sexually assaulted an elderly woman in a care home is today behind bars. Reginald Wynne Griffiths, 56, was spotted by a member of staff kissing and fondling the 88-year-old pensioner, who was physically infirm and suffered from dementia.
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Council spending on education and children’s social services in the Bath area will need to be cut by £3.4 million over the next three years.
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Organisations representing the elderly welcomed the pledges on social care featured in the Queen’s speech today, but said the government should have gone further in instigating overdue reform of the widely-derided existing system.
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Fears have been expressed about other services that may be axed after a County Hall u-turn on a planned cut to subsidies for college bus passes.
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Eighteen elderly residents will have to find a new home before Christmas, as a Camberwell care home will shut due to the recession.
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A coroner investigating the death of a baby girl who was suffocated by her sleeping dad has slammed social services for ignoring health staff advice and allowing her to go home with her heroin addict parents.
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