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ormer Rochdale council leadership 'did not appear to be interested in children's social care issues' says reportThe paedophile gang jailed last year for sexually exploiting girls in Rochdale would have been caught sooner were it not for systemic failures in the borough council's former leadership, [...]
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Theatres are increasingly catering for children on the autistic spectrum with 'relaxed performances' where they can feel more comfortableFor most five-year-old boys, a trip to the cinema is a treat. But for Charlie Webb, who has Asperger's syndrome, it's a sensory overload – and not in a good way.[...]
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Aged 16, Duncan Gall returned from holiday to find an eviction notice on the front door. There was no sign of his single-parent father and the schoolboy ended up in a bedsit, fending for himself. Years later, a wedding invitation arrived …After sitting his GCSEs, Duncan Gall went to Tenerife with [...]
7 hours ago
Your May 15 news story (“Supervisors discuss improvement projects”) about the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors struggling to prioritize needed capital improvements caught my attention when you quoted Supervisor Butch Church concerning the ...
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My husband is getting all the praise for staying sober after rehab – meanwhile, I'm shattered and seethingIt's my husband's birthday and we're celebrating with ginger beer. I would prefer alcohol, and I know he would too, but he's been almost four months sober and it's painful counting at times. I[...]
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Michael Pollan, the American food writer and campaigner, says eating together round the table every night is the way children learn best how to get along in the wider worldWhat's for dinner? Where will you eat it? And who will eat it with you? Michael Pollan reckons that the answers to these questio[...]
16 hours ago
Critics should visit the cockpit of a plane or an operating theatre to see just how effective a tick-box culture can beFew things get as much of a ticking-off as the tick-box culture. Newspaper jeremiads blame it for all that ails the NHS. Ken Clarke has grumbled about the "tick-box, bean-counting c[...]
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Oscar Pistorius was more than a national hero. His success came to symbolise South Africa's triumph over apartheid. Then he shot his girlfriend and left the nation's self-image in tattersA couple of years ago, two journalist friends of mine spent an afternoon with Oscar Pistorius. For much of the ti[...]
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The owners of video allegedly showing Toronto's mayor smoking crack go missing in the middle of crowdfunding campaignThe effort by news site Gawker to bust Toronto mayor Rob Ford for allegedly smoking crack is crack journalism work. Toronto is Canada's biggest city. Canada has a $680bn trade relatio[...]
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Major Projects Authority's performance report on 170 most expensive projects gives flagship scheme same 'amber-red' status as Crossrail and HS2The first official government admission that Iain Duncan Smith's flagship plans to remake the welfare state has hit trouble emerged on Friday night when the [...]
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Barbara Richardson writes: The films made by Joyce Robertson and her husband James had a huge impact on me as a trainee social worker in 1969 and still inform my views on childcare and parenting. They deserved a much wider audience: the messages in them are still relevant for every carer who looks a[...]
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It is increasingly questionable whether government policy is keeping pace with the growing dangers to women and childrenThis week we have learned the following: the police still make catastrophic mistakes in the protection of women at risk of domestic violence; that children everywhere have access t[...]
17 hours ago
Mayor dismisses video purportedly showing him smoking the drug as 'nonsense' a day after firing longtime chief of staffThe embattled mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, was forced on Friday to repeat a denial of allegations that he uses crack cocaine and dismiss descriptions of a video purportedly showing h[...]
17 hours ago
While some gay-rights supporters praised vote's outcome, others were disappointed in continued ban on gay adult leadersWhile some gay-rights supporters praised Thursday's vote by the Boy Scouts of America in favor of formally accepting openly gay scouts, others were disappointed in the group's decis[...]
17 hours ago
After three years of Tory-Lib Dem coalition, our economy remains in the doldrums, performing much worse than that of the US, where President Obama has achieved a deal of stimulus despite obstruction by Congress. We have a health service under increasing pressure and sliding with government encourage[...]
18 hours ago
Parents are worried about what their children view online, but we should talk to young people about that as part of sex educationPorn is now so easily accessible online, and so prevalent, that it is understandable that parents, teachers and policymakers are worried. What we aren't teaching about sex[...]
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nstead it has been a disaster for the IRS and the Obama administration. And there are implications here that extend beyond this specific case and beyond partisan politics. In the best of all possible worlds, the congressional hearings ...
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The plight of a mother and daughter forced to live in a hotel room 127 miles from their former home in the capitalWhen Aisha was evicted from her flat in East Ham, east London, on 15 April, she packed her belongings in a suitcase and went with her six-year-old daughter to the council's housing offic[...]
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President tells Annapolis graduates that sexual assault 'has no place in the greatest military on earth'President Barack Obama on Friday urged US Naval Academy graduates to remember that their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking, and said that sexual assault has "no place in the gre[...]
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sex marriage For those who favor individual freedom, this isn't a stretch. We say that with equal respect for those whose religious or moral beliefs lead them to other conclusions.
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Doctors at BMA conference vote almost unanimously against proposal to place them back on call at evenings and weekendsGPs yesterday overwhelmingly reiterated their opposition to taking back responsibility for providing out-of-hours care, with some predicting that many older family doctors would quit[...]
19 hours ago
Department of Health to put £650,000 into increasing number of hospital offering staff US-style sessions to help combat stressA&E units are so busy they have been likened to warzones, a huge NHS reorganisation has bred confusion while dealing with patients, illness and death is never easy so it is [...]
19 hours ago
Police criticised for action in Ilford, which politicians and aid groups say leaves vulnerable people without shelter and foodPoliticians and aid groups have criticised the Metropolitan police for seizing the possessions of homeless people and leaving them without shelter and food.Police, in answer [...]
20 hours ago
Tighter security won't save us from more Woolwich-style attacks, but helping to protect those most at risk mightAlmost eight years ago, I lost one of my dearest school friends in the 7/7 terrorist attack on London's transport network. James Adams and 25 others were murdered by Abdullah Shaheed Jamal[...]
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Comedian Russell Brand explains what he found when he spent the day in WestminsterWhat does the slung-about, bounced-around adage that "Politics is show-business for ugly people" actually mean? I suppose that the narcissism and self-interest that motivates many entertainers is what lurks behind the [...]
20 hours ago
The Boy Scouts of America vote to allow gay scouts was a very small step on the road to a true acceptanceThe Boy Scouts of America decided to let gay kids in yesterday, only that's not what really happened, is it? There have always been gay children in the Boy Scouts. What changed yesterday is that [...]
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The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is pleased to recognize our nation’s Service Members and Veterans this Memorial Day, May 27, 2013. While we encourage all social workers to recognize the efforts of these brave Americans on a daily basis, this is a special time to honor those who h[...]
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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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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 [...]
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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[...]
6 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[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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