The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) is advising councils that they cannot significantly change contractual funding arrangements for current care home residents because they alter the way they commission care. With
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Milton Keynes Council, whose social services department was censured by a judge for the “woefully inadequate” way it dealt with an elderly former magistrate with severe dementia, has been ordered
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More than 6,000 children across England have been reported as at risk of child sex exploitation since the beginning of 2013, it has been claimed. Channel 4 News said it
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Plans to relax taxi laws could put children at greater risk of sexual exploitation, councils are warning. Currently, anyone using a minicab can travel safe in the knowledge that the
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The Government is facing a series of strikes by public sector workers after an announcement that civil servants are to stage a national walkout next month. Members of the Public
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Somerset County Council has come under fire from a judge over the way staff dealt with a severely disabled 19-year-old woman who was not allowed to return home after bruising
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New figures released today show that the number of councils no longer providing care to people deemed to have `low’ or `moderate’ needs has risen by 17 per cent in
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More than half of councils in England have placed children leaving care in the past year in bed and breakfasts for at least 28 days, figures show. The figure of
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Manchester’s child protection services have been downgraded to ‘inadequate’ by government inspectors. A report from Ofsted found Manchester City Council took ‘insufficient action’ to address local problems, which saw 486
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The Chief Executive of Aberdeenshire Council and former head of the Association of Directors of Social Work, Colin Mackenzie, has announced his retirement from a career spanning 40 years in
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