Engage: What makes a job meaningful and why that matters
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Tag: Social Work
Inspectors report justice social work services in Aberdeen delivering transformative impact
A report into how well community payback orders are implemented and managed in Aberdeen has been published by the Care Inspectorate. Inspectors looked at how justice social work services in
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Coroner ‘utterly bewildered’ at decision to discharge baby who later died from serious head injury
A baby girl who died from a serious head injury after being found unresponsive at her home was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled. Healthcare professionals were concerned about 10-week-old
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Woman whose son was removed for adoption says any Stormont apology ‘must be sincere’
A woman whose son was taken from her at one of Ireland’s mother and baby homes after she was transferred across the border has said any Stormont apology must be
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Court of Appeal rule judge must reconsider plan to remove autistic teenager from care of father
A man has won the latest round of a court fight over the care of his autistic son. The man, who is separated from the boy’s mother, has cared for
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Hampshire social services confirms review to be held into care of murdered teenager
A review is to be held into the care provided by social services to murdered teenager Louise Smith. Shane Mays, 30, from Havant, Hampshire, was jailed for life and must
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Social workers considered allowing girl, 11, to be deported during fostering dispute
Social workers considered allowing an 11-year-old girl at the centre of a fostering dispute to be deported, a report has concluded. There were several failings in the handling of the
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Social services and police missed chances to help murdered schoolgirl Lucy McHugh
Social services and police missed a number of chances to help murdered schoolgirl Lucy McHugh in the months before her death, according to a new report. Stephen Nicholson (pictured), 25,
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Report: Southampton Safeguarding Children Partnership – Lucy McHugh Learning Review
On the recommendation of the Southampton Serious Case Review Group, a decision was taken by the Independent Chair of the Southampton Local Safeguarding Children Board in July 2018 to commission
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Teenage girl accused of multiple attacks on her mother must go into council care, judge rules
A teenage girl arrested three times in three months over allegations she attacked her mother must go into council care, a family court judge has decided. The youngster was placed
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