51 h. ago Baby P's harrowing final days as mum finally admits she's 'bad mother'

Baby P - Peter Connelly - suffered more than 50 injuries, including fractured ribs and a broken back, despite being on the at-risk register and receiving 60 visits from social workers and police officers over eight months

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2 d. ago Driver is jailed for killing social worker, 33, who helped bring grooming gang to justice when he ploughed into her in his modified BMW

Sarah Fensom (pictured), 33, suffered a fractured spine and life-threatening neck injuries after Lee Horsley crashed into her car while overtaking traffic. She died three days later from her injuries.

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3 d. ago Renfrewshire social care worker fell asleep on night shift leaving vulnerable adults "at risk"

An investigation by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) found that Ross Clark deliberately went to sleep. during a shift last year.

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3 d. ago Labour's grooming gangs inquiry is plunged into chaos: Potential chairwoman pulls out as third abuse survivor quits panel

The departure of senior social worker Annie Hudson comes after two victims of child sexual abuse resigned from a liaison committee attached to the inquiry, citing a 'toxic, fearful environment'.

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6 d. ago Seven children found with 'no food, water or heating' in home 'saturated with faeces'

The children were found in 'horrific' conditions by social workers in Stockport, Manchester by social workers who found that their living standards were 'unacceptable'

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6 d. ago Gen Z workers use business trips as way to boost their lifestyle and social media feeds

A survey found a quarter of young adult seek content creation opportunities while away for work as holiday companies pull out all the stops to guarantee a luxury break

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6 d. ago Seven children found in dire conditions at home 'saturated with faeces and urine'

Social workers uncovered the 'horrific' conditions a family was living in at their home in Stockport, Manchester, which included having no food, water, or heating

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1 week ago British teenager in Ghana ‘should not return to be in care’, social worker tells court

British teenager in Ghana ‘should not return to be in care’, social worker tells court  Metro.co.uk

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2 w. ago Social care worker is struck off after being snared in paedophile 'sting'

He believed he was communicating with a 14-year-old child.

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2 w. ago A Want in Her review – daughter’s searing portrait of family addiction and mental illness

Film-maker Myrid Carten exposes her relationship with her mother – who has both bipolar disorder and alcoholism – in this painful but powerful documentaryFor anyone who has been close to an alcoholic, or someone with mental-health issues or, as is the case here, both at once, this is a hard watch. Film-maker Myrid Carten, who holds the camera much of the time as well as directing, exposes here the open wound that is her relationship with her mother Nuala, who has both bipolar disorder and alcoholism. Nuala often goes missing on binges, and as the film opens we hear Myrid telling someone on the phone how she just spotted her mother on a Belfast street in a total state, but recognisable because of the glamorous high-heeled shoes she was wearing.You’d struggle to realise this is the same woman we see in news footage from years earlier: soignée, composed and described as a social worker who has written a guidance paper for police on how to handle victims of domestic abuse. The Nuala of ...

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2 w. ago 996 work culture is sad and inhumane. Whatever’s wrong with 888 – or even 000? | Emma Beddington

Silicon Valley is keen, once more, on a working pattern of 12-hour days, six days a week. It really is time for a new approach ...My current cultural comfort food is The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes’ deeply silly Manhattan toffs-in-bustles drama, in which one storyline (summarily dealt with due to lack of taffeta-rustling opportunities, I suspect) features a tycoon’s downtrodden steelworkers going on strike for “888”: eight hours each of work, sleep and recreation.That wasn’t a revolutionary demand in the 1880s. The slogan, coined by the utopian social reformer Robert Owen, dates from 1817 (his New Lanark mill workers still did 10.5-hour days, though). Even then, it wasn’t unprecedented: apparently, a 16th-century Spanish ordinance limited New World construction workers to eight-hour days. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago London council slammed by watchdog after 500 police reports 'left unread by social workers'

Vulnerable residents left without help after 1,100 emails ignored by ‘utterly negligent’ social workers

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3 w. ago Trump news at a glance: President hails shutdown as ‘opportunity’ to further campaign of cuts

The government has already announced the cancellation of billions of dollars in federal funding for projects tied to Democrats. Key US politics stories from Thursday 2 October at a glanceAs the US government shutdown stretched into its second day, Donald Trump on Thursday hailed the funding lapse as an “unprecedented opportunity” to further his campaign of firing federal workers and downsizing departments.The president announced on social media that he would sit down with Russell Vought, the White House office of management and budget chief, an architect of the mass firings and buyouts of federal workers. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump sees ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to punish Democrats as shutdown enters day two

Republicans and Democrats engage in war of words as White House also uses impasse to cut government spendingUS government shutdown – latest updatesAs the US government shutdown stretched into its second day, Donald Trump on Thursday hailed the funding lapse as an “unprecedented opportunity” to further his campaign of firing federal workers and downsizing departments.The president announced on social media that he would sit down with Russell Vought, the White House office of management and budget chief, an architect of the mass firings and buyouts of federal workers. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Wes Streeting unveils historic Fair Pay Agreement for social care workers

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he will no longer accept a social care system ‘built on poverty pay and zero hours contracts’

Economics

3 w. ago Too few social care workers leaves Britain without ‘legal safe staffing levels’

GMB union demands the UK employs enough carers to look after our aging population in motion at Labour Party Conference

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last month Wishaw social worker given warning over conduct after being sanctioned by regulator

The SSSC found that during the course of his employment that while supporting four service users with varying requirements, Skelton wrapped clingfilm around a person’s torso and arms in order to restrict their movement

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