Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Social Work Services committee have reported a net overspend of £49,000 of the Social Work Services budget for 2013/14. This figure is much improved on the
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Homecare contracts providing services for just over 200 people in the Broadland area of Norfolk are to be re-let after Care UK and Norfolk County Council agreed to terminate their
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A mother is suing a Welsh council after a judge ruled the authority had acted unlawfully by keeping a nine-year-old boy in foster care. The child was placed in care
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Local authorities in England will need to make huge savings before next April, equivalent to 12.5% of their total budgets, according to a new report. They face a funding gap
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For more than two years, Knowsley MBC did not follow proper planning, review and assessment processes for a young man living in supported accommodation, a Local Government Ombudsman investigation has
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Some Scottish councils are charging terminally ill people for personal care when they should get it for free, according to the charity Motor Neurone Disease Scotland. Personal care, provided by
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Two thirds of council leaders expect many local authorities to end up in financial crisis next year, according to the latest survey of local government confidence. The Local State We’re
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Bedford care professionals focused on keeping a man with mental health problems in his own home at a cost to his health and welfare, an investigation has found. The joint
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Social care in Gloucestershire is being targeted by the county council which said it wanted to cut £75m from its budget over the next three years, according to the BBC.
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Wolverhampton City Council has been ordered to train all 6,000 of its staff in data protection in the next 50 days or be prosecuted for contempt of court. It comes
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