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A ‘lifesaving’ social care team helping Edinburgh’s most vulnerable children must be saved from being dissolved, says an Edinburgh councillor. The team, currently at the Sick Kids in Little France, have been working cases with children with severe disability or other serious difficulties for over 30 years. But council officers have decided to cut it – and ‘gone over the heads of elected councillors’ to do so. ‌

SNP councillor Euan Hyslop says they provide a ‘life-saving’ service in Little France, working to also provide on-call social care service for doctors and nurses concerned about young people’s well-being. ‌

He said: “Having a social worker based in the hospital means that anyone who has a concern about the welfare of a child can contact social services, and

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