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19 hours ago
hat stat comes from a big new Brookings Institution book by Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube, Confronting Suburban Poverty in America. They find that between 2000 and 2011, the number of suburban poor in the United States grew by 64 percent ...
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4 hours ago
Report says culture of complacency within the local authority allowed paedophile gangs to prey on girlsRochdale borough council has apologised for letting down victims of child sexual exploitation after a damning report laid bare a catalogue of failures and a culture of complacency within the author[...]
4 hours ago
New calculations released by Department for Education will boost those seeking to push stalled plans throughThe cost of childcare could be cut by as much as 28% if the government was to go ahead with stalled plans to raise ratios of children to staff in nurseries.Government plans are currently stall[...]
4 hours ago
Doctors' leader says GPs finding it increasingly difficult to reconcile sharply rising workload with new managerial dutiesGPs may have to give up working with the new NHS organisations that control £65bn of treatment budgets, to help their surgeries cope with the sharply rising workloads, medical l[...]
4 hours ago
Perpetrators of violent acts of terror thrive on publicity – so politicians and the media need to stop giving it to themWe will not buckle to terrorism said David Cameron after the Woolwich murder on Wednesday. He then buckled. Everyone buckled. The home secretary buckled, the defence secretary bu[...]
4 hours ago
The health secretary is taking a risk in gunning for family doctors. The public trust them more than they do those in governmentThe inevitable NHS crisis has begun to rumble even sooner than predicted. Not two months into the great commercialising upheaval, and blood pressure in the NHS is already r[...]
4 hours ago
Vulnerable families challenging £500-a-week cap say it may force victims of domestic violence to return to their abusersFamilies will suffer catastrophic effects and victims of domestic violence may be forced to return to their abusers, it will be argued in the first test cases challenging the gove[...]
4 hours ago
Ukraine's gay pride rally has been blocked at the last minute for the second year running, after authorities lodged a complaintA Ukrainian court has blocked the country's first gay pride demonstration in the centre of the capital, upholding a complaint by authorities that the rally would disturb ann[...]
4 hours ago
Officials say fixed sites can offer Wi-Fi, making it easier to attract young donors, while travelling units may not be value for moneyThe tradition of volunteers going to the village hall or community centre to give blood may become less common, with more permanent clinics, complete with free Wi-Fi [...]
4 hours ago
Vote at annual meeting in Texas may relieve political pressure but openly gay leaders are still bannedThe Boy Scouts of America on Thursday voted to allow gay youths in the organization, partially ending a long-standing ban on accepting homosexual members. Of the 1,400 scout leaders voting at the an[...]
SKNVibes.com via 7 hours ago
Records reluctantly released by the state's Department of Social Services reveal appalling miscalculations by child protection workers in Clay County that contributed to the death of a 4-year-old boy, Lucas Barnes Webb. The emaciated child, who lived in Holt, ...
Columbia Missourian via Google News 7 hours ago
On April 11, a delegate agency contract with Lutheran Social Services of Illinois was approved by the Department of Family and Support Services, according to the city of Chicago. The award is valued at $1. The type of procurement is listed as a request for ...
Chicago Tribune via Google News 8 hours ago
Even McDonald's has left Rochdale town centre. But what can struggling high streets do to bring shoppers back?The north-west of England has the highest number of empty shop units in the UK, and as big retailers leave our town centres, the kind of businesses that thrive in hard times are moving in.To[...]
8 hours ago
SUFFOLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, res, JESSIE A. (ANONYMOUS), ap — Appeal by Jessie A. from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County, dated April 11, 2013. Pursuant to §670.4(a) of the rules of this Court (22 NYCRR ...
New York Law Journal via Google News 8 hours ago
Jeremy Hunt discusses proposals to rewrite GPs' contracts on Thursday in a speech at the King's Fund in London
8 hours ago
The Texas Boys Ranch Board of Directors is proud to announce the Ribbon Cutting and Open House of the Stettheimer Family Administration and Social Services Center as the first of three projects in the "Building Hearts, Minds and Bodies" capital campaign. The campaign is a $2,220,000 effort to improv[...]
KCBD-TV via Google News 8 hours ago
The School of Social Work's podcast series inSocialWork—formerly known as Living Proof—has won a national award in the “Best Website” category of the National Association of Social Work (NASW) Media Awards. “This marks the fifth year of our podcast ...
University at Buffalo Reporter via Google News 9 hours ago
You may apply by calling the North Branford Office of Social Service. There are income guidelines, you must have a shut off notice or are 30 days late, you must have made at least 4 payments in the last 12 months, one of those during the moratorium, you ...
Downers Grove, IL Patch via Google News 9 hours ago
Barry Gourlay and colleagues from Anstruther lifeboat station battled three-metre waves in darkness to rescue two menA lifeboat volunteer has been awarded a gallantry medal for his role in a dramatic sea rescue that saved the lives of two men.Barry Gourlay, 30, and two colleagues battled three-metre[...]
10 hours ago
As Soderbergh's Liberace biopic hits our screens, why is it that homosexual love stories now work so much better than hetero?I know where I'll be Sunday night. The reviews coming out of Cannes for Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, which airs on HBO on Sunday night, have tur[...]
11 hours ago
Oklahoma City arts-and-crafts chain argues that businesses should be allowed to seek exemption over religious beliefsIn the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal healthcare law that requires i[...]
12 hours ago
The Equality and Human Rights Commission found widespread human rights breaches in the home care sector in its 2010-11 review. It has now issued commissioners with a guide to improving this situation.
12 hours ago
Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen, including Jeremy Hunt's speech on GP reformsAndrew Sparrow
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2 days ago
By Rena Malai, News staff A group of MSW students from the University of Southern California School of Social Work visited the NASW national office in March to learn more about the social work profession. The students are enrolled in Child Development and Social Policy at USC, and spent a week in Wa[...]
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3 days ago
By Paul R. Pace, News staff Four social workers are among the members of a newly formed Institute of Medicine committee that will examine the state of end-of-life care in the U.S. The Committee on Transforming End-of-Life Care is charged with developing a consensus study and technical report on the [...]
3 days ago
The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP), of which NASW is a member, recently released the 3rd edition of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care. These interdisciplinary guidelines can be used to develop, guide, and enhance palliative care programs acros[...]
5 days ago
Because HIV, HCV, and HBV are all blood-borne infections transmitted through similar patterns of behavior, co-infection is an important emerging public health issue. About 3 million adults in the United States are infected with Hepatitis C, most of which are baby boomers. However, between 65-75% o[...]
6 days ago
New Edition of National Consensus Project Palliative Care Guidelines Released NASW Participates in Revision Task Force The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP), of which NASW is a member, recently released the 3rd edition of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Pallia[...]
6 days ago
By Rena Malai, News staff North Koreans used solitary confinement as a way to break down U.S. prisoners of war during the Korean War, broadcast journalist Ted Koppel said recently on “Rock Center with Brian Williams.” Koppel’s report highlighted 17-year-old James Stewart, an incarcerated juven[...]
1 week ago
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is launching a series of co-sponsored webinars on various aspects of the Omnibus HIPAA Rulemaking. The 90-minute webinars are specifically designed for smal[...]
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