Plans for a 27 turbine scheme at Whiteneuk near Corsock have been ditched.
07.10.2022 - 14:53 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Fatigue and burnout are the main reasons so many social services and care workers are off sick in Dumfries and Galloway, it has been revealed. Staff absence rates are on the increase in the council’s social work department and are roughly 25 percent higher than set targets. A report was tabled at the council’s social work committee on Tuesday which showed that the social work department had an average employee sickness absence rate of 11.48 days in 2021/22.
This is an increase compared to 11.13 days the previous year, and well off the target of just nine days per year. However, the significant pressures the social work department has been under during the pandemic has been well documented, with many employees forced off sick through stress – and social workers even walking away from the profession. At Tuesday’s meeting, council co-leader Linda Dorward asked: “In terms of sickness absence, what’s the biggest cause – and is it mainly long term or short term?” Chief social work officer Lillian Cringles said: “Without a shadow of a doubt, the level of work-related stress has risen.
“We also, as with other services in the council, have an ageing workforce, particularly in our adult care services. “It’s our in-house care and support at home service where we do have a significant challenge around an ageing workforce that’s very much a ‘heavy lifting’ job if you like. “So, quite a lot of staff have had physical injuries at work, which is linked to the role and their own physical and personal health challenges.” She added: “We have some high levels of longer-term illness.
Plans for a 27 turbine scheme at Whiteneuk near Corsock have been ditched.
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Actor Cuba Gooding Jr.'s criminal record has been wiped clean. After completing the terms of his no-jail plea deal in his Manhattan sex abuse case, the "Jerry Maguire" star had his charge downgraded Thursday to second-degree harassment for kissing a woman against her will at a nightclub in 2018. Prosecutor Coleen Balbert said Thursday Gooding had completed six months of alcohol and behavior modification counseling, allowing him to withdraw his misdemeanor plea and plead guilty to a harassment violation. Balbert said she has received "positive reports for the last six months" from Gooding’s therapist.
3RD UPDATE: Cuba Gooding Jr. will receive no jail time in his forcible touching case after pleading guilty to a lesser charge today in Manhattan Criminal Court and complying with the terms of a conditional plea agreement reached in April. Gooding replaced his misdemeanor plea with a plea to a noncriminal harassment violation and faces no additional penalties.
Cuba Gooding Jr. is avoiding prison.
EJ Panaligan editor Cuba Gooding Jr. will receive no jail time for his forcible touching case, after it was resolved Thursday in New York City, according to the Associated Press. He previously pleaded guilty to one count of forcible touching in April in a criminal case that placed accusations upon him for violating three different women in Manhattan nightclubs between 2018 and 2019. The actor has complied with the terms of a conditional plea agreement that was reached earlier in the year, with prosecutor Coleen Balbert indicating that Gooding has remained out of trouble and completed six months of alcohol and behavior modification counseling. Fulfilling these terms allowed him to withdraw his misdemeanor plea, and instead plead guilty to a harassment violation. He will not have a criminal record as a result.
Cuba Gooding, Jr. will not face jail time for the forcible touching case against him in New York City after pleading guilty to a lesser charge. Prosecutors say Gooding completed six months of alcohol and behavioral counseling, allowing them to change his previous misdemeanor plea to a noncriminal violation. The 54-year-old star pleaded guilty back in April to the misdemeanor charge for forcibly kissing a nightclub worker back in 2018. It's just one of dozens of accusations against the Oscar winner that came to light in the #MeToo era. Claudia Oshry Details Alleged Cuba Gooding Jr.
Associated Press). The actor is continuing with therapy as per the terms of his agreement.
Stewartry residents are being asked to keep an eye out for squirrels next week.
More than a quarter of children in Dumfries and Galloway are living in poverty according to Audit Scotland’s latest report.
The White House on Friday said it has seen no indication Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons despite comments made by President Biden warning the U.S. has not "faced the prospect of Armageddon" in 60 years. "We have not seen any reason to adjust our own strategic nuclear posture, nor do we have indications that Russia is preparing to imminently use nuclear weapons," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One. Jean-Pierre defended comments made by the president earlier Friday, saying, "The kind of irresponsible rhetoric we have seen is no way for the leader of a nuclear-armed state to speak, and that’s what the president was making very clear." White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during a daily briefing at the White House in Washington Sept.
A climate emergency group run by Dumfries and Galloway Council needs to up its game, a councillor has claimed. Annandale North Councillor Gail Macgregor has not been impressed by the work done by a cross-party collective of councillors on reducing the region’s carbon footprint.
Disabled people in Dumfries and Galloway could die because they cannot afford the electricity to power their vital medical equipment, a councillor warned this week. Councillor Willie Scobie raised his serious concerns at a social work meeting on Tuesday, and the region’s social work chief admitted she was “acutely aware” of the severe impact the cost-of-living crisis is having on people with disabilities.