Council in data protection headache over social worker blunder
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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Apology from Council over care of frail pensioner
Milton Keynes Council has been criticised by a top judge for unlawfully removing a frail pensioner from her son’s care due to social worker’s concerns about her welfare. District Judge
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Standards for employers of social workers re-launched
The standards which set out what social workers should expect from their employers have been revised and re-launched by local authorities, the Local Government Association (LGA) announced yesterday. The Standards
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Local government workers to be balloted for strike action
UNISON has decided to ballot 600,000 local government and school members for strike action after 70% of members rejected this year’s pay offer in a consultative ballot. The pay offer
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Council criticised as man charged for care services he did not want or use
A Walsall man has been given no option but to live in an extra care housing scheme – and pay care charges for a service he neither used nor wanted,
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Failure to fund could jeopardise social care reforms
Essential social care reforms designed to improve the lives of older people, carers, and disabled people could be jeopardised if the Government fails to fund them properly, local government leaders
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Worcestershire parents will pay to place children in care
Controversial plans to charge some parents who put children into care have been rubber-stamped by Worcestershire County Council. The Conservative cabinet agreed the new charging regime after shrugging off calls
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Elderly placed in danger as local authorities accused of ‘rationing care’
Too many elderly people who struggle with simple day-to-day tasks are not getting any help from social care services, a new report has warned. Some older people in England are
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Council expands social work contact centre services
Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Social Work contact centre is expanding its services. Following a successful move to introduce a Social Work specialism to the council’s contact centre, the trained call
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‘Serious concerns’ about leadership at South Ayrshire Council
The Accounts Commission said it is seriously concerned about South Ayrshire Council’s lack of progress in addressing long term weaknesses. Its findings are in response to a report from the
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