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• Child protection costs 'threaten local councils' financial stability'

  13-06-2018 19:28
  Nigel Richardson, chair of a care crisis review group, says there is a surge in children being taken into careFailure to support families at risk and reduce pressure on the care system will lead to child protection services becoming financially unsustainable, the chair of an expert care review group has warned.Nigel Richardson, a former director of children’s services at Leeds city council, said that the struggle to cope with the rapid surge in children being taken into care at a time when
  
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• Funding for innovative biographical films to capture life stories of people with dementia

  13-06-2018 10:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Richmond charity has received a cash boost to improve the lives of people with dementia by making special films to celebrate their lives.
  City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation’s charitable arm, awarded £48,000 to My Life Films to support people with dementia across London.The funding will produce biographical films for people with dementia. The films celebrate the life of the person living with dementia by capturing their unique story in a film to support the individual
  
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• Why are social workers excluded from new bill to protect emergency staff? | Ruth Allen

  13-06-2018 09:33
  The profession works in risky, sometimes dangerous situations yet is treated differently to other emergency service colleagues Social workers prioritise people who are most marginalised, desperate and often unhelped, overlooked and angry; as a consequence, we work often in risky, sometimes dangerous situations. Yet we are treated differently to other emergency service colleagues. Why? In 2013 I wrote a piece describing social work as the forgotten emergency service. Six years on, judging by a bi
  
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• They may forget what you said – but they will not forget how you made them feel

  13-06-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kinga Dabrowska
  When my oldest child was four and I turned 30, she greeted me on the morning of my birthday with: Mum, you are old! A few years later my mother turned sixty and my little boy cried, saying that she’d probably die soon, due to her advanced age. When I introduced him to my friend’s granny, who was 101, he took a photo to present at Show & Tell in school. Most of the children were surprised she was still alive.
  In children’s eyes, someone who gets older slows d
  
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• Most vulnerable people in Birmingham targeted in fire safety scheme

  13-06-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  People over the age of 65 “are most likely to die or be injured in a house fire” according to the Station Commander of a Birmingham fire station who has joined forces with Ageing Better in Birmingham to help keep the most vulnerable people in the city safe.
   
  Latest figures show that during a three-year period between 2013 and 2016 there were 2,270 accidental dwelling fires in the Birmingham area. Of these, 17 per cent involved people over 65. More than 50 per cent of the fires
  
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• Legal system of child protection is in crisis, says senior judge

  13-06-2018 01:01
  Sir Andrew McFarlane speaks out as review says austerity makes it hard for services to cope in England and WalesThe family justice system is in crisis, fuelled by an “untenable” workload created by a glut of applications to take vulnerable children into care, the senior judge about to become the next head of the family courts has said.Sir Andrew McFarlane, who takes over as president of the family division of the high court of England and Wales in July, questioned whether the courts
  
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