Newport aims to make social services ‘fit for the future’
NEWPORT council is looking at ways to recruit and retain social services staff as part of a larger strategy to make its social services “fit for the future”.
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NEWPORT council is looking at ways to recruit and retain social services staff as part of a larger strategy to make its social services “fit for the future”.
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Increasing numbers of children suffering mental health problems are being sent to adult or non-specialist hospital wards despite specific ministerial pledges to halve the number of such cases.
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A NEW career structure for social workers is vital if the profession is to tackle the staffing crisis, according to Newham’s chief of children’s services.
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After almost a decade leading the county’s social services, Margaret Sheather leaves Gloucestershire County Council this week.
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A residential unit in southern Scotland for children with learning difficulties has been recommended to be approved. Moffat company, Meadowfield Care, wants to build the facility at land next to Upper Stepford Farm near Dunscore.
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MORAY’S child protection service, which was criticised in a damning report in February, would now be given “a clean bill of health”, a councillor has claimed.
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CARE workers should be exempt from ISA registration charges, according to the UK’s number-one procurer of temporary agency labour for care, de Poel.
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We can turn it around. That’s the pledge being made by the owners of a Hampshire nursing home where nine staff have lost their jobs after it received a zero rating from independent inspectors.
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THE South Wales council at the centre of a foster care sex abuse scandal earlier this year has completed an action plan to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
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The new nursing director at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in south west London has backed controversial proposals requiring all new nurses to have degrees.
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