Skills for Care has announced the finalists for their Accolades Awards celebrating the achievements of organisations committed to boosting the skills and knowledge of the growing adult social care workforce.
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Television camera crews have been granted access to one of the country’s busiest hospitals to highlight some of the tens of thousands of assaults committed against NHS staff each year.
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Carers who concocted a lie to explain away a pensioner’s fall and then delayed raising the alarm have been spared jail with relatives calling the sentence “appalling”. Sabrina Duncan (pictured)
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Two care workers who admitted neglect after a pensioner fell at a residential nursing home are due to be sentenced. Pensioner Norah Boyle suffered a head injury as Benter Ouma
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In July 2015, the University of Birmingham released a report ‘Micro-Enterprises: Small enough to care?’ The report summarised the findings of a two year evaluation of micro-enterprises in social care
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The University of Birmingham have published the findings from a two-year evaluation of micro-enterprises in social care, based in their School of Social Policy. Micro-providers of care and support, employing
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A care worker has admitted trying to murder three colleagues at a home for the elderly. Melissa Swift pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court today to three counts of attempted
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A judge says he hopes more local authorities will use civil courts to target men who sexually exploit vulnerable girls in the wake of “bold and novel” legal moves by
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An independent review of Birmingham Council has warned the authority must radically improve if it is to deliver the services residents of Birmingham deserve. Sir Bob Kerslake, the chief civil
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A report has found that at least 132 children in Birmingham have been victims of sexual exploitation or are “vulnerable” to it. The city’s council carried out a year-long investigation
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