Council in disabled teenager case ordered to pay all parties’ legal bills
A council that came under fire from a judge over the way staff dealt with a severely disabled teenager has been told to pick up lawyers’ bills run up by
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Tag: Childrens Services
Woman awarded damages after son ‘unlawfully taken from her care’
A woman with mental health difficulties has been awarded £3,000 damages after a judge concluded that her son had been unlawfully taken from her care by local authority social services
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Northumberland childcare social worker suspended for series of failings
Social worker Samantha Lockyer has been suspended from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) register for 12 months for a serious number of failings. As a child care social
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Engage: The past, present and future of child poverty in Scotland
Over the coming weeks, the Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People (SCCYP) will be running a short series of blogs on child poverty in Scotland from voices across the
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Report: Exploring concerns in child’s diagnosis of a learning disability
Over the years ENABLE Scotland has become increasingly aware of the gap in services to meet the challenges faced by parents at the early stages of a child’s diagnosis of
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Inspectors call for improvements at Flintshire children’s services
In a new inspection published today, Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) has called for improvements to be made at Flintshire County Council’s children’s social services. CSSIW inspectors questioned
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Young foster children distressed by regular house moves, charity warns
Moving house regularly can cause significant distress to young foster children from “traumatic backgrounds” who crave stability, a children’s charity has warned. Almost one in four foster children in the
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Judge backs council and child’s adoptive parents over birth mother
A couple who adopted a “neglected, starved little girl” have complained to a High Court judge about the behaviour of the youngster’s birth mother. The couple told Mr Justice Peter
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Kent social services secure FGM court order to protect 13 year-old
Social services bosses have taken High Court action in a bid to protect a 13-year-old girl who has been taken to Sudan by her mother and is feared to be
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BAAF Cymru jobs saved in restructuring of adoption and fostering services
The Welsh Government has announced restructuring plans for adoption and fostering services in Wales following the closure of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) Cymru, it was announced
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