News round-up: Care home workers go unchecked, police warn

June 2, 2008 in Community Care

Care home workers go unchecked, police warn
Tens of thousands of migrants are working with vulnerable elderly people in care homes without undergoing full criminal record checks.

Mother of dead children is taken to mental unit
A Sri Lankan mother suspected of stabbing two of her children to death and critically wounding her baby girl was lonely and depressed by her life in Britain, her relatives said yesterday.

Tougher sex-crime register after Jersey abuse case
A far-reaching register for sex offenders – much wider in scope than that in England and Wales – is to be set up on Jersey after alleged abuse at a former children’s home.

Man charged with sex offences in Haut de la Garenne case
A 45-year-old man is due to appear in court in Jersey this morning, charged with sex offences against boys at the Haut de la Garenne children’s home.

Prison crowding delays domestic violence plan
New measures to protect victims of domestic violence have been put on hold because prisons are so overcrowded, it was claimed last night.

Cannabis increases risk of psychosis in teens
Teenage cannabis users are more likely to suffer psychotic symptoms and have a greater risk of developing schizophrenia in later life, research has found.

Read more on this story in The Daily Telegraph today

Social workers said we were too middle-class and too white to adopt
Children are routinely denied loving parents and a home because of politically correct policies that prevent the placement of black or mixed-race babies with white couples.

Read more on this story in The Daily Mail today

Parents, police powers and ID targeted in new crackdown on teenage binge drinkers
Parents are to be advised at what age they should let their children drink alcohol at home, under government plans to be announced today to tackle youth binge drinking.

Read more on this story in The Guardian today

Prisoners ‘spend too long in cells’
Official claims that prisoners spend 10 hours a day out of their cells on weekdays are inflated, according to research by the chief inspector of prisons.

Read more on this story in The Guardian today

Hostility to immigrants ‘is holding UK back’
Widespread public hostility to immigration threatens to undermine efforts to attract the skilled foreign workers crucial to Britain’s future prosperity, the Government is warned today.