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County Council support to help most vulnerable

30 June 2011

County Council support to help most vulnerable
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
 More people in Norfolk are set to benefit from a project that sees the health of vulnerable people benefit from a structured program of farming–related activities on a ‘care farm’.

Doctor struck off for kicking care home resident in rubber glove row

Doctor struck off for kicking West Runton care home resident in rubber glove row

Steve Downes Wednesday, June 29, 2011
9.51 AM

A doctor has been struck off after an incident in a Norfolk care home.

A doctor who kicked an autism sufferer on the backside in Norfolk in a row over a pair of rubber gloves has been struck off.

 Polish national Dr Robert Bartosik, 47, hit out at the patient following the argument at Treehaven residential home in West Runton.

Autistic man ‘let down’ by council

Autistic man ‘let down’ by council

PA

Thursday, 9 June 2011

A social services boss has apologised after a High Court judge ruled that a local authority unlawfully detained a 21-year-old autistic man by keeping him in a care unit for nearly a year.