Birmingham City Council to Axe a Further 1,000 Jobs
Britain’s biggest council is to slash a further 1,000 jobs as part of a £822m cost cutting plan. Birmingham City Council, which has reduced its workforce by 33% since 2010,
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Sutton Council propose cuts for adult social care and children’s services
Members of Sutton Council’s strategy and resources committee have backed a budget that freezes council tax for 2014/15 but outlines cuts to care services. Spending cuts have been proposed in
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Social services management ‘tendency to blame care workers for errors’
Birmingham social services management and other children protection agencies have been accused of having a ‘tendency to blame social workers’ when things go wrong in a review of the city’s
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Vulnerable ‘being let down’ over Bradford social care helpline
One in three people phoning a Bradford Council helpline to request social care are not having their calls answered, according to a new report. The situation has been branded “appalling”
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133 jobs to go as Leicester axe 23 children’s centres
Leicester City Council are to axe 133 posts at 23 children’s centres in a bid save £3.4 million. Staff were due to be told which posts will be cut following
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Council retains care home company despite rape convicion
A care home where a worker raped three vulnerable women was dumped by social services – but its directors have another firm which earns almost a third of a million
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Slough Council children’s service failures ‘widespread and serious’
Slough Borough Council has been told there are ‘widespread and serious’ failures in its looked-after children services. Ofsted has ranked the authority inadequate, saying its social care services have not
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Leicestershire social workers move will save £800K
Leicestershire social workers are to be relocated from this weekend in a move that is set to save £800,000 a year. Leicestershire County Council care staff based in Brooklands Road,
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Plans to close children’s centres across Essex move closer
A restructuring of early years education delivery has been agreed by Essex County Council’s. The ECC cabinet decided in a meeting last week that the proposal which will close some
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Hampshire substance misuse officer fined over possessing class A drugs
A substance misuse officer has been found guilty of possession of cocaine and MDMA following a police raid on his home. Fareham magistrates court heard police raided Michael Joseph-Lester’s house
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