
President Barack Obama speaks with last year’s cohort of Obama Foundation Scholars.
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President Barack Obama speaks with last year’s cohort of Obama Foundation Scholars.



A consultation on a review that could impact on the “health, safety and well-being of some of the most vulnerable children in Edinburgh” is to be extended after Unison claimed it had been “rushed and poorly communicated”.

Government must commission independent review of regulator to examine effectiveness, value for money and performance, following ‘dubious’ decision making’ over fee rise, say BASW, SWU and UNISON

In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, there are statutory codes of practice or standards governing social care employers, produced by the relevant professional regulators and taken into account by inspectorates in their judgments of organisations. However, there is no equivalent in England. Though the 2009 Social Work Task Force called for the introduction of binding standards for employers, this did not happen, with voluntary standards being launched instead, in 2011.