A new report from the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) has found significant improvements in Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council’s (NPTCBC’s) Children’s Services meaning that a Serious Concerns Protocol
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The head of the British Association of Social Workers has warned against the care of vulnerable people being “handed over” to private companies. Bridget Robb said social work was facing
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Schools are becoming “mini welfare states” spending millions of pounds a year on supporting poor children and plugging funding gaps in public services, headteachers are warning. The vast majority of
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The City of Edinburgh Council is the first Scottish local authority to sign a pledge to tackle mental health stigma and discrimination at work. The ‘See Me in Work’ scheme
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Ten seemingly respectable people – including six women – subjected young children to sexual and physical abuse over more than a decade, prosecutors have told a court. Much of the
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Nearly two-thirds of councils are failing to complete home adaptations for disabled people within the one-year legal limit, a charity has found. Leonard Cheshire Disability said thousands of disabled and
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A Ukrainian concert pianist who became embroiled in a row with social workers after his son was taken into foster care has been criticised by a family court judge. The
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Three quarters of MPs agree that adult social care funding from government should be protected in a similar way to the NHS for the next five years, according to a
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A new law which allows councils to ban activities in public spaces is leading to “bizarre new criminal offences”, campaigners against heavy regulation have said – despite public approval for
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Predatory men suspected of grooming children for sex could be stopped immediately if a new type of banning order was introduced by the new government, local government leaders have said.
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