Controversial proposed council cuts, one of which a charity warned could set back community based social care in Norfolk by at least 10 years, will be considered by councillors for
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About 150 community care jobs could be cut if Coventry City Council plans to save £5m are agreed next year. It is expected 100 of the job losses would be
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Dorset County Council is planning to transform the way it delivers adult social care in a bid to save £7million. The directorate is to carry out a ‘radical review’ of
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The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for long-term ‘sustainable funding’ for adult social care. In the wake of the announcement of the local government finance settlement yesterday, the LGA
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Croydon council is set to slash more than £17m from its yearly budget, axing jobs and millions of pounds of spending on health and social care. Elderly care, retirement housing
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Social worker Dorothy Lowe’ Bamidele has been struck off the HCPC Register for using her procurement card for personal purchases whilst working for Oxfordshire County Council. A panel of the
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Kent County Council has confirmed that the axe will fall on twelve of the county’s children’s centres and further twenty see their hours cut. For those that will close, services
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Essex County Council has responded to the media reports concerning the delivery, without the mother’s consent, of a baby by caesarean section and the child’s removal into care of the
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Andrew Lowe, director of social work at Scottish Borders Council, is to retire. Mr Lowe, who suffered a heart attack in March last year, said he has struggled to maintain
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A pregnant woman has had her baby forcibly removed by caesarean section. Essex social services obtained a High Court order for the woman to be sedated and her baby daughter
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