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LGO report reveals Adult social care complaints rise by 16%

By Iain MacDonald17th July 2014News England

The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has published its review of local government complaints for 2013/14. For the first time the report provides complaint statistics for each English local authority, all

MP’s call for B&B ban for transitioning care leavers

By Iain MacDonald17th July 2014News England

Young care leavers should be offered a decent place to stay and not be put up in “unsuitable” accommodation like bed and breakfasts, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.

Mental health patient suicide risk highest on leaving hosptial

By Iain MacDonald17th July 2014News England

Mental health patients are at the highest risk of committing suicide in the first two weeks after leaving hospital, latest figures have shown. Data from the report entitled: National Confidential

Government strips Slough council of children’s social services

By Iain MacDonald16th July 2014News England

Slough Borough Council (SBC) will be stripped of its children’s social services after independent report into failings was published yesterday. The Government has confirmed it proposes to strip the council

Hunt to extend Special Measures solution for failing care homes

By Iain MacDonald16th July 2014News England

Failing care homes could be put into a similar failure regime as poor-performing hospitals, the Health Secretary is to announce. Jeremy Hunt will say that most of the hospital trusts

Labour calls for two-year deadline on learning disabilities units

By Iain MacDonald16th July 2014News England

Labour has called on the Government to commit to a two-year deadline to end the practice of placing vulnerable people with learning disabilities in Assessment and Treatment Units – like

Care workers among 660 held in child images crackdown

By Iain MacDonald16th July 2014News England

Several hundred suspected paedophiles including doctors, teachers and care workers have been arrested in the biggest ever UK crackdown on obscene images of children. The unprecedented six-month operation headed by

May tells MP’s she has no regrets over Butler-Sloss

By Iain MacDonald15th July 2014News England

Home Secretary Theresa May has insisted she does not regret appointing Baroness Butler-Sloss to chair an inquiry into allegations of historical child sex abuse by establishment figures, after the former

NICE: Workforce should use life events to encourage better middle-age health

By Iain MacDonald15th July 2014News England

Health workers should take advantage of significant life events among the middle-aged to get them to be healthier, new NHS guidance suggests. People whose children are leaving the nest, those

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LGO report reveals Adult social care complaints rise by 16%

MP’s call for B&B ban for transitioning care leavers

Mental health patient suicide risk highest on leaving hosptial

Government strips Slough council of children’s social services

Hunt to extend Special Measures solution for failing care homes

Labour calls for two-year deadline on learning disabilities units

Care workers among 660 held in child images crackdown

May tells MP’s she has no regrets over Butler-Sloss

NICE: Workforce should use life events to encourage better middle-age health

Mother of woman who took own life brands daughter’s abuser ‘a monster’

MPs reject Tory bid to launch another national inquiry into grooming gangs

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Tag: News England

LGO report reveals Adult social care complaints rise by 16%

MP’s call for B&B ban for transitioning care leavers

Mental health patient suicide risk highest on leaving hosptial

Government strips Slough council of children’s social services

Hunt to extend Special Measures solution for failing care homes

Labour calls for two-year deadline on learning disabilities units

Care workers among 660 held in child images crackdown

Campaigners fear social work system needs urgent improvement

May tells MP’s she has no regrets over Butler-Sloss

NICE: Workforce should use life events to encourage better middle-age health