Intervention lifted at Swansea social services
An intervention board has been withdrawn after inspectors found “real improvements” at Swansea’s child and family services.
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An intervention board has been withdrawn after inspectors found “real improvements” at Swansea’s child and family services.
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Children in care in the Isle of Man could be suffering because improvements to social services have been too slow, according to MHK Chris Robertshaw.
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WIRRAL’S director of adult social services is to retire after six years’ service. John Webb, who joined Wirral Council in 2004 and became director of adult social services in 2007, is taking early voluntary retirement.
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A FORMER care home director has been jailed for 22 months after stealing nearly £50,000 from an elderly resident in order to keep her struggling business afloat.
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ONE of Edinburgh’s longest-running day centres is celebrating its 25th anniversary later this week.
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Emergency trips to hospital have increased by more than 25% among Scotland’s pensioners, despite the investment of millions of pounds extra in community care, figures have revealed.
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The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) will be staging two one-day events focusing on ‘gangs and global exchange’ in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, on 2nd and 3rd December 2010.
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A new “winter of discontent” has edged closer as it emerged that thousands of care workers, catering staff and school janitors have taken the first steps towards a possible wave of industrial action by the end of the year.
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Chancellor unveils biggest UK spending cuts in decades, telling MPs ‘today is the day that Britain steps back from the brink’
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The Workforce Unit are interested in your experiences of using outcomes tools in social care and support settings.
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