Many local councils are struggling to offer a good standard of care and protection for their most vulnerable youngsters, inspectors have warned. Children’s social services are still under “intense pressure”
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The pressures on the complaints system for children’s care services are being highlighted in a new report by the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) published today. In a number of case
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The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) have today published their inspection report on older peoples services at Newport City Council. Inspectors concluded that the council faces ‘significant challenges’
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Social services bosses have been criticised by a family court judge over their handling of a case involving a four-year-old girl who had suffered “neglect” when at home. Judge Stephen
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Poorer areas have been hardest hit by cuts to local government spending over the past five years, according to a think-tank. The respected Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found local
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The rise in short home visits to elderly people by care workers is a damning indictment of the underfunded social care and health system, the chairman of the Local Government
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Communities secretary Eric Pickles has named the five commissioners who will take over the running of crisis-hit Rotherham and also promised £250,000 to help set up an outreach project to
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Plans to devolve £6 billion a year of health spending to Greater Manchester will lead to closer integration between the NHS and social care and improve results for patients, George
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The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) have published a report today on Children’s Services in Monmouthshire County Council. The inspection, which took place in November 2014, looked closely
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Social care funding must be protected in the same way that it is for the NHS in the next Budget or another crisis such as the one seen this winter
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