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Report: Scottish Social Services Council – 2016 Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report

By Iain MacDonald29th August 2017Reports & Resources

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has today published the 2016 Mental Health Officers’ Report. The statistics show the number of mental health officers (MHO) has gone up by 5.4%

Policewoman blames social worker for destroying evidence in ‘troubling’ adoption case

By Brian Farmer25th August 2017News England

A policewoman who says her two-year-old son was wrongly taken from her care following an investigation by council social workers has lost the latest round of a court battle. The

Report finds more vulnerable people should be benefiting from Self-directed Support

By The Press Association24th August 2017News Scotland

More people should be benefiting from a planned transformation of social care, a new report has said. The review found “no evidence” of the radical change needed to fully implement

Funding uncertainty prompts housing associations to cancel or delay new homes

By Tess de la Mare24th August 2017News England

Housing associations across the country have been forced to cancel or delay plans to build thousands of new homes due to uncertainty over future funding. Projects for 8,800 new housing

Judge approves council care for girl terrified of father after rejecting religious identity

By Brian Farmer18th August 2017News England

A teenager from Kuwait who told police her father would kill her if he knew she had rejected her “religious and cultural identity” should go into council care, a family

Disabled man challenges High Court ruling upholding council’s care package cuts

By John Aston17th August 2017News England

A severely disabled man is taking his legal battle over cuts to his care package to the Court of Appeal. In the first case of its kind, Luke Davey, 40,

Councils urged to review homelessness procedures after disabled woman left in limbo

By Iain MacDonald17th August 2017News England

Councils in England are being urged to check their homelessness procedures are fit for purpose, after the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found significant fault with a Northamptonshire district

Social Services Minister praises Powys for pioneering electronic health and care system

By Iain MacDonald17th August 2017News Wales

Social Services Minister Rebecca Evans has praised Powys’s health and social care services for becoming the first area in Wales to jointly implement a new IT system that helps health

Vulnerable children left without help as councils shrink or abandon social care services

By Georgina Stubbs14th August 2017News England

Thousands of children in England referred to social services over concerns including abuse and neglect are not getting the help they need, a charity has said. Action for Children has

Increasing costs and lack of money ‘puts one in six care homes at failure risk’

By Alan Jones14th August 2017News England

One in six care homes are showing signs that they are at risk of failure amid rising costs and lack of funding, a new study shows. Research by accountancy firm

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Report: Scottish Social Services Council – 2016 Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report

Policewoman blames social worker for destroying evidence in ‘troubling’ adoption case

Judge approves council care for girl terrified of father after rejecting religious identity

Disabled man challenges High Court ruling upholding council’s care package cuts

Councils urged to review homelessness procedures after disabled woman left in limbo

Increasing costs and lack of money ‘puts one in six care homes at failure risk’

Family hail justice for little ones as mother jailed over four boys’ fire deaths

Southport child-killer detained for at least 52 years for ‘sadistic’ murders of girls

Whitehall ‘group think’ and inter-departmental ‘open warfare’ slammed by vaccine tsar

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Tag: Local Authorities

Report: Scottish Social Services Council – 2016 Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report

Policewoman blames social worker for destroying evidence in ‘troubling’ adoption case

Report finds more vulnerable people should be benefiting from Self-directed Support

Funding uncertainty prompts housing associations to cancel or delay new homes

Judge approves council care for girl terrified of father after rejecting religious identity

Disabled man challenges High Court ruling upholding council’s care package cuts

Councils urged to review homelessness procedures after disabled woman left in limbo

Social Services Minister praises Powys for pioneering electronic health and care system

Vulnerable children left without help as councils shrink or abandon social care services

Increasing costs and lack of money ‘puts one in six care homes at failure risk’