Social care and health
We’re responsible for providing social care for vulnerable adults and older people across Staffordshire as well as providing support for those who care for them.
Our Children and Families Social Work Teams provide advice, support and social work to families – parents, children and other carers.
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- With children back at school and teenagers off to university, families are being asked if they now have time to foster.
- Date:
- 10 September 2021
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- People from across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent are being urged to support a campaign to help reduce the number of suicides in the county.
- Date:
- 09 September 2021
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- People in Staffordshire are being urged to get protected this winter as the Government launches the largest national influenza campaign in history.
- Date:
- 08 September 2021
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- The thousands of people who work in Staffordshire's care homes have been thanked for the "phenomenal" way they have cared for some of the most vulnerable people in our communities during the pandemic.
- Date:
- 08 September 2021
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- A Tamworth shop owner and his employee have been ordered to pay £3,400 in fines and costs after trading standards officers discovered counterfeit tobacco for sale at their premises.
- Date:
- 07 September 2021
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- The care home market in Staffordshire will be reviewed to ensure it can continue to offer quality care, value for money and timely access to care in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Date:
- 07 September 2021
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- Families needing help will benefit from a county wide support network under new proposals.
- Date:
- 07 September 2021
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- Funding to create new school places and improve existing provision for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities is being made available to Staffordshire schools.
- Date:
- 07 September 2021