Hearing into failures at Seaham children’s care home
A NURSE at a children’s care unit has gone before a misconduct hearing after a series of incidents at the home.
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Month: October 2011
Child detention: has the government broken its promise to end it?
After promising last year to end child detention in failed asylum cases – and closing the notorious Yarl’s Wood unit – the government opened a smart new centre for deportees. But isn’t this still detention?
Chelsea Care ‘doomed to failure’
A home care provider run by Kensington and Chelsea Council has been put into liquidation, costing taxpayers nearly £300,000.
Amadudu awarded domestic violence contract in Liverpool
Liverpool City Council has awarded a contract to support people from the BME community who suffer domestic violence to Amadudu.
Why social care providers want their stars back
The abolition of star ratings for care homes and homecare services is now being called into question, as there’s no way of knowing which services are better than others
Three questions all jobseekers should ask themselves
Before you even begin the job search process, take the time to ask yourself these three questions so you don’t rush in blindly. Preparing properly now will save you mistakes and time in the long run. Clarity is the first and most important key to finding the right job.
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Contacts to use in your job search
So you’ve handed in your notice or at least told your senior supervisor and team manager that you’re actively looking for a new job. If your manager and supervisor are reasonable, they’ll allow you to take the odd day here and there as annual leave in order to focus on your job search or attend a job interview.
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Top Tips for landing a fabulous job
For most of us, work takes up a significant part of our everyday lives. The Office of National Statistics reports that 29.19 million of us are employed and it’s important that each and every one of us is in a career we enjoy, since we spend so much time in the workplace and so much time thinking and talking about work even when we’re not there.
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373 babies in care last year – but only 12 were given to parents desperate to adopt
JUST 12 babies were adopted by new families in Scotland last year, despite hundreds being in care. Child-care experts have blamed the situation on red tape, branding the system “slow and bureaucratic”.
Care watchdogs get tough on under-fire residential school
CARE watchdogs are to ban council bosses from placing vulnerable teens at an under-fire residential school.
