Articles by Date : June 01 2000 - June 30 2000

Councils set to miss deadline
Councils set to miss deadline About a quarter of social services departments fear they will not reach agreement with their district.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Lack of community care blamed on cash shortages
Checks are being carried out by government inspectors into three social services departments' community care plans after local MPs raised concern.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Councils in crisis over elderly care
Councils in crisis over elderly care Social services chiefs warned of cuts last week as ministers confirmed just £60 million would.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Racism leaves young people homeless
Racism leaves young people homeless A new report says hostels are failing homeless young black and Asian peoplereport by Cathy.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

MPs ask ministers to come clean
The call for a national care charter has come in the Commons health select committee report on continuing care Frances Rickford reports The.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

NSPCC 'regrets' its failure to act
The NSPCC has admitted it 'regrets' a fuller investigation was not undertaken in 1989 when one of the Wests' children was referred by his school. more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Barnardo's gets a slice of lottery cash
Child care charity Barnardo's has received £600,000 for a series of regional projects to help children and young people living in poverty in.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Nurse guilty
Nurse June Brill has been found guilty of slapping three elderly mentally ill residents of a nursing home in Ipswich by the nurses' professional.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Labour promises social services registration
Labour promises social services registration The Labour Party has pledged its support for a general social services council. more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Order criticised
Order criticised The order to create unitary authorities for Rutland and the City of Leicester was being debated in the Commons as.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Wests bypassed child protection system
Wests bypassed child protection system It is 'quite remarkable how the West family managed to both avoid and bypass existing child.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Kirk warns of cash cuts consequences
Kirk warns of cash cuts consequences Community care will be put at serious risk unless the government comes up with more cash for.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Adoptive mother wins
Adoptive mother wins Steven Vickers, an 18-year-old man with cerebral palsy, has lost the right to prevent his mother having a say in.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Abusers will hear victims
Abusers will hear victims Child abusers in Somerset will be confronted with expressions of their victims' feelings on audio tape in an.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Humberside jobs may go
Humberside jobs may go Withdrawal of 1,200 redundancy notices by Humberside Council does not guarantee people jobs in new unitary.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Day centre charges row
Day centre charges row Day centre users in Hertfordshire are complaining at being charged for holiday periods and for Christmas week.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Benefit cuts
Benefit cuts Learning difficulties charity Mencap is seeking case studies to help its campaign against cutting benefits of people.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Woman fights return to scene of abuse
Woman fights return to scene of abuse By CATHY COOPERSocial workers and care home managers are fighting a proposal to send a woman with.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Boy in elderly people's home
Boy in elderly people's home Calderdale social services department sent a young offender to an elderly people's home for two days last.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Beck's victims not protected, court told
Beck's victims not protected, court told Leicestershire County Council this week admitted it had failed to protect children from former.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Report shows need for video standards
Report shows need for video standards A report into the use of video interviews in cases of suspected child abuse has bolstered calls.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

New courses start
New courses start Courses in criminal justice tailored to support National Vocational Qualifications have been established by City.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Foster carers' concern
Foster carers' concern Foster carers in the London Borough of Wandsworth claim their jobs will be made 'ten times harder' if council.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Country living
Country living Tim Brown has swapped his old car for a Land Rover. more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Psychiatric hospitals condemned by study
Psychiatric hospitals condemned by study By PHILIP WHITELEYConditions in London's psychiatric hospitals bear all the worst institutional.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Bowis pledges close watch
Bowis pledges close watch Junior health minister John Bowis last week promised that his department would closely monitor the new.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Supervision: record high
Supervision: record high A record number of children and young people were placed under criminal supervision orders to English local.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Welsh training
Welsh training The Post Qualifying Consortium for Wales has been launched, with responsibility for registering and asessing candidates.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Scope admits deceit over abuse home
Scope admits deceit over abuse home By NATALIE VALIOSDisability char Scope has admitted social services and police were kept in the dark.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Private home residents intend to sue council
Private home residents intend to sue council Two former residents of private homes for adults with learning difficulties in.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Cornish homes go private
Cornish homes go private Cornwall County Council has voted to transfer 18 residential homes for elderly people to a new.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Pressure groups condemn sentences
Pressure groups condemn sentences Campaigners last week expressed their anger at prison sentences passed on two individuals with a.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Budget must account for means test concessions
Concessions for elderly people facing the means test for residential care must be allowed for in the local authority revenue support grant.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Cuts spark strike
Walsall Unison went ahead with a fifth 24-hour strike earlier this week in protest at 32 redundancies and decentralisation plans. more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Care programme deadline
The Department of Health was unable to confirm that the care programme approach for people discharged from psychiatric hospital is in place.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Strategy hears voices of young
Strategy hears voices of young Carolyne Willow (Letters, 18-24 January) expresses concern about the representation of young people's.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Modern adoption is more than a redistribution of children
Modern adoption is more than a redistribution of children n Murray Ryburn's 'Between a rock and a hard place', (11-17 January), an.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

An Act of shame
An Act of shame Merely tinkering with the Child Support Act is not enough when wholesale reform is needed By Ian HernonMost MPs,.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Prison too punitive
The Howard League has called for attempts to be made to prevent young people being remanded in prison Cathy Cooper investigates Only five.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Register abusers call
Fred West: Died in prisonThe British Association of Social Workers is calling for a register of convicted abusers in the light of the West case. more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Aftermath of West case leads to call for change
By Rachel Downey Social services directors are demanding national standards for care leaving services, a framework of support for young.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Train of events
1965-70 - Charmaine and Anne Marie placed in care five times by Fred 1971 - Charmaine, 8, 'disappeared', school told she had gone to live with.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Highland claims funding error
Private and voluntary care homes in the Highlands could close because of a 'major funding mistake' by the Scottish Office, the new Highland.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Community care has not smashed job prospects in drug and alcohol services as was initially thought. Liz Hall looks at the types of people who are being recruited
Community care has not smashed job prospects in drug and alcohol services as was initially thought. more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

On the home front
With local government changes looming and a general election due in the next 18 months, Shelter Scotland's new director, Liz Nicholson, is.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Homelessness risk
Homelessness risk Local authorities must ensure young people are not at risk because they lack safe accommodation, says youth.... more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Independent inquiry absolves care staff
Social workers were not to blame for failing to discover the child abuse committed by Fred and Rosemary West over a 20-year period. more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Island battles on
Isle of Wight community care services have been operating on a 'crisis only' basis for a year. more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Prevention is better than cure, Humberside is told
Humberside social services has been told to switch to prevention rather than intervention in child care to ease pressure on resources. more
(14 June 2000 00:00)

Training cuts hit special needs
People with special needs are losing access to training because of changes to government funding, according to voluntary agencies. more
(14 June 2000 00:00)