Social worker cleared of rapes as jury returns not guilty verdicts on all charges
A SOCIAL worker accused of a campaign of historic sexual abuse at a Northamptonshire children’s home has been acquitted of all the allegations.
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A SOCIAL worker accused of a campaign of historic sexual abuse at a Northamptonshire children’s home has been acquitted of all the allegations.
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THE new sector-led team for Peterborough City Council’s childcare services has been finalised, after a departmental shake-up following a damning Ofsted report.
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Increased longevity and the health-related problems that go hand-in-hand with getting older are proving increasingly challenging for the NHS and its partners, says Maria Kane, chief executive of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
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Scottish care homes will get at least one unannounced inspection a year, under plans to toughen up the system.
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BASW has reacted with ‘dismay but not surprise’ to a new report that revealed housing support workers are being forced to fill the gap left by adult social workers and undertake a range of tasks that they are neither qualified nor trained for.
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A WOMAN who was kidnapped in Africa during a botched attack that killed her husband is a dedicated social worker at a psychiatric hospital near Royston.
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A charity has praised the council for protecting front-line social services in the face of a shrinking budget, but Merton’s leader has warned this could be about to change with more cuts to come.
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Leicester City Council has confirmed that one of its six directors has been suspended on full pay. The authority has not confirmed the director’s name or given a reason why.
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Close to 70,000 young people struggling with problems relating to issues such as homelessness and employment face losing access to free legal advice due to government plans to cut the legal aid budget by £350m, a report has warned.
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More than half of vulnerable teenage girls have been victims of violence in at least one of their relationships, an NSPCC study has revealed.
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