Disabled people are sleeping fully-clothed in their wheelchairs and surviving on biscuits due to cuts to social care, according to a new report. Many are in crisis because social care
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Councils spend just 1% of their budget on preventing mental health problems, a charity has said. Mind said the battle to prevent poor health was also undermined by the fact
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Communities Secretary Greg Clark has urged more councils to contact their local branch of the Alzheimer’s Society and offer training to their staff to help the society reach 4 million
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The most senior family court judge in England and Wales has told social services bosses that “misuse and abuse” of legislative provisions aimed at providing short-term accommodation to children who
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Social service bosses should have moved more quickly to protect five children at the centre of abuse and neglect concerns, a family court judge has suggested. Swindon Borough Council had
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A specialist multi-agency team aimed at targeting the criminal behaviour of scammers and supporting their vulnerable victims is now operating in Angus. Angus Financial Abuse Support Team (FAST) came together
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Almost 1,100 jobs are to go at one of Scotland’s biggest councils under plans to plug a £68 million black hole in its budget over the next two years. North
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Council bosses have been ordered to pay £40,000 damages by a family court judge who concluded that a little girl was unlawfully kept in care after her mother suffered a
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A council at the centre of the Baby P scandal has again been blasted in a report into child protection following the suicide of a teenage girl. Haringey Council was
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A “postcode lottery” has local authorities in the south contributing far more to the cost of long-term care than in the north, new figures show. Which? submitted Freedom of Information
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