State ‘failed child abuse victims’
The State has failed to protect six vulnerable children who suffered at the hands of parents, the Children’s Minister has admitted.
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The State has failed to protect six vulnerable children who suffered at the hands of parents, the Children’s Minister has admitted.
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Bullying should be made a crime according to 80 per cent of young people who responded to a survey conducted by charity Beatbullying.
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Many councils are struggling with moves to give individual people their own budgets to spend on social care, a watchdog claims.
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A BRENT social worker who threw a fan at a vulnerable child has been struck off. Robert Lennox Clarke was arrested after the attack left bruises on his victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in July, 2009.
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The architect of radical plans to overhaul public services in the west of Scotland is expected to spearhead a nationwide review of how local government must change in the face of a massive squeeze on budgets.
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As many as 3000 people are living with dementia in the Highland Council area but hundreds of them don’t know they have the condition.
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Watchdog finds fewer than half of serious case reviews better than adequate and authorities frequently too trusting of parents
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A COUNCIL department with an £82 million budget is set to overspend. Social work chiefs say the way things are going they’ll spend £106,000 more than planned by April next year.
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Adult protection activity in Angus is set to continue its upward climb as frontline staff increase their awareness of those at risk.
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The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) today announced that more children are requiring compulsory measures of intervention, with a further rise in the number of children and young people on Supervision.
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