Published on Wednesday 6 November 2024 at 4:01 pm
Blackburn with Darwen Social Worker Lauren North has won a National Children and Young People Award!
Filed under: award | awards | Awards ceremony | Children and Young People | Children and Young People Awards | Children’s Services | Social Care | social worker
Published on Tuesday 11 January 2022 at 4:17 pm
People with caring experience and relevant skills are being targeted in a recruitment drive to boost the social care workforce in Blackburn with Darwen.
Filed under: Adult Social Care | coronavirus | COVID-19 | Recruitment | Social Care
Published on Wednesday 26 June 2019 at 10:23 am
Residents of Riverside Heights and the adjacent bungalows joined with guests from Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Together Housing and other partners to celebrate the grand opening of this specialised housing with care development in Darwen.
Filed under: Darwen | extra care housing | Riverside Heights | Social Care
Published on Wednesday 30 January 2019 at 2:08 pm
Graduates and career changers will be given hands-on training in an extension of a fast-track programme to train the next generation of social workers.
Filed under: Children’s Services | Social Care | social work | training
Published on Wednesday 21 November 2018 at 4:01 pm
Local man Mr James Shorrock is delighted with his move to Riverside Heights housing with care scheme in the Shorey Bank area of Darwen.
Filed under: Darwen | health | Housing | Riverside Heights | Social Care
Published on Monday 19 November 2018 at 10:47 am
Volunteers from Edgworth and Higher Croft are needed to help with a new research project which could help potentially vulnerable people stay safe and well in their homes.
Filed under: councillor brian taylor | Edgworth | health care | Higher Croft | Social Care
Published on Friday 19 June 2015 at 9:47 am
A winning painting by a Blackburn boy is taking pride of place in new calendar.
The picture is called “I Love Life” and was painted by a local 10 year-old-boy, and has been chosen for a new charity calendar as part of a national competition.
Filed under: Councillor | fostering | Maureen Bateson | Social Care
Published on Tuesday 2 December 2014 at 12:17 pm
Plans for how Blackburn with Darwen will spend £12m of public funding to improve health and social care services in the borough have been approved by NHS England.
Filed under: Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group | CCG | Councillor | health | Mohammed Khan | Social Care
Published on Tuesday 28 October 2014 at 3:26 pm
The Council has launched a brand new web resource for families of children and young people under 25 who have special educational needs or disabilities.
Filed under: children | health | Local Offer | Social Care | web resource | young people
Published on Thursday 4 September 2014 at 2:17 pm
Blackburn with Darwen Council’s adoption service launched Let’s Adopt in January 2014, in a bid to find loving and stable homes for cared-for children. The campaign has helped to educate potential parents in the borough and surrounding areas that a wide range of people including single people, non-homeowners, those who are in fulltime employment or not working, same-sex couples and over 21-year-olds are eligible to apply to adopt.
Filed under: adoption | council | letsadopt | Social Care | social work
Published on Wednesday 6 August 2014 at 11:37 am
Free health and Social Care training is available for volunteers, as part of the ‘Your Neighbour your Call’ scheme.
Filed under: Blackburn College | community | health | Social Care | Volunteers | Your Call
