Kemback centre campaigners claim ‘positive response’ from social work chief
A campaign group fighting the proposed closure of a Dundee adult learning centre is set to meet with the city’s leading social worker.
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A campaign group fighting the proposed closure of a Dundee adult learning centre is set to meet with the city’s leading social worker.
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Stoke-on-Trent City Council paid the former director of children’s services Dr Sharon Menghini just short of £350,000 in 2011/12, it has been revealed.
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The degree to which early years professionals are educated has a bigger impact on improving social mobility than the ratio of staff to children in pre-school settings, a report by The Sutton Trust has claimed.
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Care services minister Norman Lamb has said social care reform should not be funded from the NHS budget because the health service is already under financial pressure.
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THERE is a postcode lottery of care for children who suffer from epilepsy, senior doctors have warned. The standard of care patients receive is “variable”, according to the first national audit of epilepsy services for young people.
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A police force has denied withholding information about the scale of sexual exploitation of girls by gangs of men in South Yorkshire.
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Decisions to not prosecute some individuals over allegations of abuse at Jersey’s Haut de la Garenne should be reviewed, says a childcare expert.
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Nearly 30,000 children were taken into care last year, figures showed today. A total of 67,050 youngsters – nearly 7,000 more than the capacity of Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium – were looked after by English social services departments in the year to March, according to the Department for Education.
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Sickness absence cost Angus Council more than £4 million last year, with stress on the increase.
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HOME carers face pay cuts as a local authority reduces the money paid to private firms looking after the most vulnerable members of society.
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