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News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sectorClare HortonClaire BurkeSarah Johnson
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Conservative homophobes have held sway in the party against its reforming wing – until now. But can they all be reconciled?
If only those Conservative backbenchers who are now so exercised about the evils of same-sex marriage would swivel their eyes back to the speech David Cameron made a few[...]
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Experts from the National Childbirth Trust and The Lullaby Trust answer your questions on cot death and co-sleepingDenis CampbellGuardian readers
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Former Tory chairman Lord Tebbit also warns that legislation could allow him to marry his son to escape inheritance taxThe determination of David Cameron to press ahead with legalising gay marriage opens up the possibility of a lesbian queen giving birth to a future monarch by artificial inseminatio[...]
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Effective early intervention can support those at risk of joining gangs to build better livesGirls and young women with links to gangs are among the most at risk group of children in our communities. Yet through effective early intervention, involving both children's services and adult social care, [...]
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Compared with normal care, telehealth can achieve better and faster health outcomes, better adherence to medication, and increased productivityThe debate around remote care frequently stalls on the matter of expensive or complicated equipment, but often people have all the technology they need sitti[...]
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It can be difficult to detect adult abuse, but councils need to do more to raise awareness of the services availableWhile shocking stories in the news about the abuse and neglect of elderly people in care homes and people with physical or learning disabilities rightly provokes outrage, the abuse of [...]
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When you're trying to prove yourself, it can be very difficult to speak up and admit you're struggling with a large caseloadI recently found myself, for the second time in a year, returning home from work and bursting into tears. I cried so much that my whole body ached, and for the next three weeks[...]
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Government guidance notes offer an insight into the startling complexity around how benefit assessments will be madeAs the roll out of universal credit nears, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has begun distributing a range of guidance notes on how various assessments will be made.Recently,[...]
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Tina Papalabropoulos died of aspiration pneumonia. As a report into her death is published, her mother speaks out about negligent care, the struggle for recognition, and her unwitting role in Tina's deathJosh StraussRichard SprengerMustafa Khalili
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Men who fear ridicule from women for talking about masculinity understandably clam up. Matriarchy has a lot to answer forThe past week has again highlighted the inexplicable absence of an intelligent discussion conducted by men about ourselves. It's followed a familiar pattern: a leading female comm[...]
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In a British economy addicted to property inflation, the government's Help to Buy scheme threatens Fannie Mae-style disasterThe French call it l'esprit de l'escalier, that brilliant thought on the way out, too late for some brilliant aperçu. Alas, that is Sir Mervyn King's parting contribution as h[...]
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When film-maker Anna Hall found out about the exploitation of girls in Telford, she had to bring the evidence to a wider publicAnna Hall is nothing if not patient. It was 17 years ago, over a cup of coffee in her adopted home city of Leeds, when she first heard that some British Pakistani men were g[...]
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DOBSON — In what Chairman Eddie Harris called “the end of an era,” the Surry County Board of Commissioners presented outgoing Social Services Director Wayne Black with a plaque recognizing his decade of service to Surry County at the helm of the department. The action came as the board met for[...]
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Jennifer Smith, acting director, CatholicCare Social Services Hunter-Manning, Peter Gogarty and David Muxlow, team leader of the Diocesan Child Protection Unit, at the opening. TWO Hunter child protection support agencies will celebrate new Mayfield ...
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After less than six months on the job, the director of the Missouri Department of Social Services resigned Monday. Gov. Jay Nixon announced Alan Freeman's move in a news release, saying the director will return to his position as president and chief ...
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Mambalam police busted the gang which ran a social service initiative and collected large sums of money from people whom they approached with medical reports and photographs of people with medical complications. “The trio would first find out about such ...
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HONG KONG, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Arrow Electronics, Inc.( http://www.arrow.com ) (NYSE: ARW) announced that Arrow Asia Pac Ltd. was honored with the Caring Company logo by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS), a reflection of ...
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Killing by a man who already had a murder conviction shows failure of society and officialdom in acting on domestic violenceJane Martinson
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Copies of private records of Erie County residents that used the Department of Social Services, were left in boxes and totes in a sub-basement of the Rath Building that went unsecured for years. Workers then put many of those un-shredded documents at the ...
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“I'm quite optimistic; we've got a really good person in as chief executive of the College of Social Work [Annie Hudson], a strong chair in Jo [Cleary], we've got a strong Adass [Association of Directors of Adult Social Services]president this year who's very ...
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Rebel Tories are defeated in Commons after PM's last minute plea to Ed MilibandThe government's gay marriage bill was saved after David Cameron was forced to rely on Ed Miliband to defeat an attempt by his own MPs to derail the measure by trying to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples.A[...]
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Relatives of domestic violence victim say her murder in 2008 by former boyfriend Marc Chivers must be catalyst for changeThe family of a woman strangled by her former boyfriend has called on the home secretary, Theresa May, to set up a Stephen Lawrence-style public inquiry to examine why victims of [...]
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David Cameron forced to look to Labour to save bill as Tory opponents attempt to limit its scopeDeep divisions in the Conservative party were highlighted late on Monday when Tory MPs clashed during a lengthy debate on the gay marriage bill which survived a series of challenges from traditionalists.T[...]
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Flagship government policy to reform care funding will be highly complex to implement and increase workloads for council practitioners, warns report from the King's Fund.