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• Will the MacAlister review improve the lives of children in care? | Letters

  08-02-2023 19:25
  
  Care services should be centred on children and their individual needs, writes Roy Grimwood, while Peter Riddle and Mel Wood say the government is evading its responsibilitiesI had first-hand experience of the residential care system for children in the 1960s and worked with children in care in a number of settings until I retired in 2007, witnessing changes including the privatisation started in the Thatcher era. Initially, good childcare workers set up homes to provide needs-led services witho
  
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• National Apprenticeship Week at Royal Star & Garter

  08-02-2023 17:51 via careindustrynews.co.uk
  Apprentices at Royal Star & Garter have spoken about the impact studying is having on them and their career.Lina Largo-Mejia and Karen Jakeman are among several apprentices at the charity’s Surbiton Home, and were speaking during National Apprenticeship Week, which runs from 6 -12 February.Royal Star & Garter provides loving, compassionate care to veterans and their partners living with disability or dementia, and also has Homes in Solihull and High Wycombe.Their qualifications are
  
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