A new report into treatment of people with learning disabilities does not do enough to help bring them out of institutional care and into the community, charities have said. Mencap
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The Care Quality Commission today published its fifth annual monitoring report on the implementation of the deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS). These are part of the Mental Capacity Act, and
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Within the wider health and social care arena, there is much emphasis on the challenges of meeting the needs of an ageing population, yet little is known about social work’s
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Following separation and/or divorce, a growing number of parents jointly share the care of their child(ren) either equally, or at least 30 per cent care by each parent. Some of
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In developed and developing countries, with very few national exceptions, people are living longer and dying slower through degenerative rather than infectious disease. This paper addresses the challenge that this
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A joint inspection of services for older people in Fife has highlighted areas of good performance and also made recommendations where further improvements can be made. The report, published today,
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The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety today published a statistical bulletin summarising information on care leavers in Northern Ireland who left care during the year ending 31
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A report published this week by the Children’s Commissioner for Wales hopes to identify emerging lessons that any future operation could learn from. The report also examines the implications of
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The current review highlighted many of the well-known challenges young people face when transitioning from care and explored the psychological impact of these encounters, based on rich personal narratives embedded
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This article explores three major themes related to domestic violence and social workers. More specifically it investigates a) British social workers’ abilities to recognize incidents of interpersonal violence; b) how
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