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16-year-old motorist reportedly suffered a medical condition Wednesday night, causing him to crash his SUV into a local social service agency building, police said. The incident occurred at the AFL-CIO, 1203 N. Sixth St., about 10 pm “Apparently a ...
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5 hours ago
News, comment, blogposts and tweets across the sector3.11pm: Lizzi Easterbrook writesThanks to everyone who took part in our live Q&A on leadership earlier. We will be doing a round-up on the site next week and you can still read all the comments here.Elsewhere, your views on the news looks at the r[...]
5 hours ago
David Cameron says we could all be better parents with a few lessons. Share your nuggets of wisdom for new parentsDavid Cameron is defending parenting classes, arguing that they are in no way a "nanny state" policy. His Can Parent initiative is allowing parents to fund classes through £100 vouchers[...]
5 hours ago
Tory party co-chairman adds voice to row over Rochdale grooming case, saying she believes race played role in crimeThe Conservative party co-chairman has hit out at the small minority of Pakistani men who see white girls as "fair game".In comments that follow the Rochdale grooming case, Lady Warsi s[...]
5 hours ago
Sara's story is an extraordinary one of loss, survival and, at the end, the remarkable bonds between us allNearly 11 years have passed since I last broke my own rule and wrote in this place about something deeply personal. Then, in the summer of 2001, it was the birth of my first child and the artic[...]
6 hours ago
The latest fashion in child-rearing is about regulating the behaviour of women, not benefiting childrenWas it just a few weeks ago that Time ran a cover story claiming women were poised to become "the richer sex" – getting more education than men, working up a storm and, in one out of four marriag[...]
7 hours ago
The 61-year-old woman had worked for two decades as a support worker in the social-services system, most recently in a Camrose group home for troubled youth. As a consequence of accepting a life's work few of the rest of us would take on, she was found ...
Edmonton Journal via Google News 7 hours ago
18/5/2012 - 18/05/2012 - Parenting course for new adopters
www.cumbria.gov.uk via Zibb.com News 7 hours ago
The problem has produced a fragmented mass of services. What is needed is long-term mentoring – and proper co-ordinationFor all the recent headlines on youth unemployment, it is neither a new or clearly understood problem. The figures are shocking: more than 1 million young people aged 16-24 seeki[...]
7 hours ago
This week's social life blogger explains what he teaches – and learns – working with refugees in social careI joined a leaving care team in children's services in June 2009 and the majority of my caseload are refugees: young people whose childhood was disrupted by manmade emergencies to such an [...]
8 hours ago
Analysis of the Scottish council election results shows few black and minority ethnic people in city hall - just 17 out of 1,223 councillors, and only two parties promise actionSo if Scottish councils are getting less male and stale, how are they doing on the pale? Not very well at all is the answer[...]
8 hours ago
Cameron defends parenting classesSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Parenting lessons: this is not the nanny state, says David Cameron
• Child support charges could increase poverty, warn MPs
• Remploy bidders offered wage subsidy
• Pa[...]
• Child support charges could increase poverty, warn MPs
• Remploy bidders offered wage subsidy
• Pa[...]
8 hours ago
Poignant, thoughtful and exhilarating by turns, the art of the family comes to the Laing in Newcastle. The Guardian Northerner's arts explorer Alan Sykes finds much to enjoy and admireFamily Matters, which opens at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle today, Friday 18 May, shows over 60 artists and th[...]
9 hours ago
Carrie Wilson explains how support and encouragement could help those leaving care achieve success in life"We don't care if you don't get the grades, but you have to go to the lessons or we won't get paid for you"These words were said to me by my school teacher – someone who should encourage a chi[...]
9 hours ago
Cutting food stamps, benefits for federal workers, social services programs, such as day care for children and the icing on the cake, Meals on Wheels for the elderly. These are not statistics here. These are tens of thousands of people living in Monroe ...
The Herald-Times via Google News 9 hours ago
While £30m has been found to help people build their own homes, the project diverts attention from the most acute needUndeterred by the embarrassments of Gordon Brown's celebrity appointments, the coalition government has continued to link policy to famous figures in the hope their ideas will gain [...]
10 hours ago
If you're trying to cut your housing register you risk abandoning a rich source of information about residentsA smaller housing waiting list conveniently looks like there is less housing need to meet. That is why so many areas are doing the best they can to reduce that list. But the data it provides[...]
11 hours ago
By fighting our library's closure, we've shown how communities can work together and achieve extraordinary thingsThey arrived at 7:30am on Wednesday, with trucks and security guards, to clear out Kensal Rise library – as they had five other libraries in the London borough of Brent in the last six [...]
11 hours ago
A demi-monde that's all but vanishedThere were three of us: me, Lorenzo Marioni, and a leather-jacketed vicar whose name now escapes me. We were sitting around one of the Formica tables in the New Piccadilly, the last surviving Italian caff on Denman Street – a place run by Lorenzo's family since [...]
13 hours ago
Some believe the growing capital will have to expand outwards. Others are not so sureAt the Guardian's housing network blog, social housing consultant Colin Wiles writes:Within the M25, there are 110,000 hectares of green belt land. Even if we built on a third of it, we could provide more than 1 mil[...]
15 hours ago
A 16-year-old motorist reportedly suffered a medical condition Wednesday night, causing him to crash his SUV into a local social service agency building, police said. The incident occurred at the AFL-CIO, 1203 N. Sixth St., about 10 pm “Apparently a ...
St. Joseph news, sports, entertainment and business. Merging the St. Joseph News-Press and News-Pres via Google News 17 hours ago
“The last two that we've done, it's been a pleasure to see several of the youth secure jobs with other places and also take jobs on with the city,” Leonard Horton, director of the Department of Social Services, said during City Council's work session ...
Suffolk News-Herald via Google News 18 hours ago
Fees to access maintenance collect by replacement to Child Support Agency also penalises women, says committeePlans to charge single parents for access to the replacement for the Child Support Agency could worsen child poverty, MPs have warned.The public accounts committee also expressed concern tha[...]
19 hours ago
Lifestyles of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people exposes them to horrific punishment, study findsThe lifestyles of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Iran are comprehensively and systematically denied by the Islamic regime, which exposes them to horrific punishment, bullying[...]
19 hours ago
A memorial to two children killed in an IRA bomb has been stolen from a town centre by suspected metal thieves.
www.thisislondon.co.uk via Zibb.com News 20 hours ago
Prime minister launches Can Parent initiative to offer guidance and says he will push for childcare tax breaksParenting classes should be taken as seriously as driving lessons, David Cameron will declare as he announces measures to help the "nation-builders" raising Britain's next generation.The pr[...]
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6 days ago
Each year on Mother’s Day the US Department of Health and Human Services kicks off National Women’s Health Week. Starting on Sunday, May 13, individuals, communities, and health agencies, among others, will unite in an effort to advocate for women to take control of their health. The 2012 theme [...]
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May is National Foster Care Month, a time to raise awareness on the plight of children and youth in the foster care system. There are approximately 400,000 children and youth in foster care because their own families are unable to provide for their essential well-being. In addition, approximately 30[...]
2 weeks ago
By Greg Wright, News contributor Social worker Matt Anderson became a documentary film producer on a whim. He was working with foster children in Missoula, Mont., when he met Codie, an 18-year-old who had been placed in 17 foster homes in just seven years. Like many former foster children, Codie was[...]
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Save $90 Million by Malnourishing Children
How Low-Income Housing Causes Brain Damage
New Yorkers Fear Becoming Homeless
Welfare and Higher Education
Whatever Happened to Welfare Mothers?
The Tea Party Jacobins
