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22 hours ago
...incident at a house in the 400 block of 3rd Street East. One male was later released without charges. The Ministry of Social Services took custody of three children that were present at the home. Five dogs were handed over to the Meadow...
Saskatchewan, CA via Zibb.com News 
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9 hours ago
Cecil Crouch said the family member has tried to get assistance from social services and do the things she has been asked to do to keep her children. ...
Victoria Advocate via Google News 
General Social WorkChildren and Parenting
11 hours ago
Fiona Phillips had a high-profile job as a presenter on GMTV and two small children when her mother – and then her father – developed Alzheimer's disease. By Emine SanerIt is only when you look back, says Fiona Phillips, that you see there were signs. Her mother, Amy, was diagnosed with early on[...]
Children and ParentingEducationHealth and CareGerontologyCriminal JusticeWomens Issues
11 hours ago
18th-century Bethlem – chains, belts, purges, bleeding and thousands of visitors gawping at the inmates. Nell Leyshon on the asylum that inspired her latest playMy new play, Bedlam, about to open at the Globe, is set in a fictionalised Bethlem, in the mid-18th century, a time when psychiatry had y[...]
HealthChildren and ParentingHealth and CareMental HealthCriminal JusticeWomens Issues
11 hours ago
'I soon learned never to express hunger around them and to eat in secret, thereby developing an inextricable emotional link between what I ate and my ability to be loved'In my head I am thin. I just haven't quite got there yet. As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, t[...]
WomenChildrenChildren and ParentingEducationHealth and CareCriminal JusticeWomens Issues
18 hours ago
A retired academic from Suffolk who specialised in child care has admitted a string of child pornography charges.Former college lecturer Kevin Pettican, 64, of Saxmundham, admitted making and possessing indecent images of children.A judge at Ipswich
Harehills Today via Moreover.com News 
EducationChildren and ParentingHealth and CareCriminal Justice
18 hours ago
The treatment of William Hague and Julia Gillard reflects the importance attached to children as an accessory to officeThe Australian prime minister Julia Gillard is attacked for being "deliberately barren". William Hague feels forced to reveal that he is longing for children. A nasty little tyranny[...]
ChildrenChildren and Parenting
19 hours ago
Foster carers working for Slough Council face a 50% cut in the weekly fee paid for their first child.
Children and ParentingHealth and Care
19 hours ago
I'm glad to see alcohol consumption fall – but how about some pro-sobriety messages instead of the usual anti-drink nagging?I stopped drinking almost 20 years ago, and I sometimes think that my real life began on that day in 1991. Getting sober was one of the best things I ever did, and, strangely[...]
HealthChildren and ParentingHealth and Care
19 hours ago
... be held for nearly 600 Long Island children who were identified with the help of eight local social service agencies in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. ...
environmental-expert.com via Google News 
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19 hours ago
As part of the operation, social services attended a property and took away a child after concerns were raised about welfare issues.
BBC News via Google News 
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20 hours ago
(HealthDay News) -- For the first few months, newborns need sustenance from either breast milk or formula. Since breast milk contains disease-fighting antibodies, the womenshealth.gov Web site says breast-feeding may help reduce the risk of these health
EverydayHealth.com via Moreover.com News 
Womens IssuesChildren and ParentingHealth and Care
20 hours ago
With the opening of the Taj Cape Town, will the city prove the broken windows theory of urban decay?The broken windows theory of urban decay first appeared in the magazine The Atlantic in 1982. Social scientists James Q Wilson and George L Kelling proposed that little problems, such as broken window[...]
Children and ParentingEducationHealth and CareMinorities and ImmigrationCriminal Justic
20 hours ago
New legislation could benefit teachers hoping to change their pattern of work - but not all heads are receptive to requests Until now, the right to request flexible working arrangements has been confined to parents and those caring for disabled adults.
Times Education Supplement via Moreover.com News 
EducationChildren and ParentingDisabilities
20 hours ago
Beyond the hype about ambitious women on their way to billionaire status, there are many struggling just to get byThe cover of this week's Newsweek proclaims Chinese women the "power sex", and promises to reveal the secret behind their "overwhelming ambition". Apparently Chinese women are far more s[...]
WomenChildren and ParentingHousing and PovertyEducationCriminal JusticeWomens Issues
21 hours ago
Before 1918, when Mississippi became the last U.S. state to require that school-age children attend public or private schools, many children were taught by their parents at home or by teachers informally hired by the community. Quite often in rural
Voice of America via Moreover.com News 
EducationChildren and Parenting
21 hours ago
PITTSBURG -- Parents at a Pittsburg elementary school reacted with shock a day after a popular teacher was arrested at the campus on suspicion of possessing thousands of child pornography photographs on his home computers. Los Medanos fifth-grade teacher
Contra Costa Times via Moreover.com News 
EducationChildren and Parenting
22 hours ago
Indian Health News Text The Coverage Evaluation Survey 2009 (CES-2009), a nationwide survey covering all States and Union Territories of India, commissioned by UNICEF was conducted during November 2009 to January 2010. The CES shows significant increase
MedIndia via Moreover.com News 
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22 hours ago
Disciplinary panel suspends pathologist, who carried out first post-mortem examination on Ian Tomlinson, for three monthsThe pathologist who carried out the first postmortem on newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, who died at the G20 protests, was today suspended from the medical register for three month[...]
HealthChildren and ParentingEducationHealth and Care
22 hours ago
The Institute for Fiscal Studies made a number of mistakes in its analysis of the coalition's plansLabour politicians seized on an Institute for Fiscal Studies report last month which described the emergency budget as "clearly regressive". Unfortunately, some of the IFS's conclusions and the reporti[...]
PovertyChildren and ParentingHousing and PovertyCriminal Justice
22 hours ago
...incident at a house in the 400 block of 3rd Street East. One male was later released without charges. The Ministry of Social Services took custody of three children that were present at the home. Five dogs were handed over to the Meadow...
Saskatchewan, CA via Zibb.com News 
General Social WorkChildren and ParentingCriminal Justice
22 hours ago
Disabled models at Debenhams; alcohol consumption; plus, the best of the blogsFollow Society Guardian on TwitterFollow Patrick Butler on TwitterSign up to Society Daily email briefingToday's top Society storiesUK sees largest fall in alcohol consumption in 60 yearsG20 pathologist suspended for misco[...]
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1 day ago
Eight children on child protection plans in Suffolk are at risk because unqualified staff are responsible for the day-to-day work on the cases, according to Ofsted's latest unannounced inspection report on council safeguarding.
Children and Parenting
1 day ago
At the recently concluded International AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria, there was an emotional call to eradicate Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT) of HIV. Participants were particularly charged when Austria, which hosted the conference, presented
AllAfrica.com via Moreover.com News 
Womens IssuesChildren and ParentingEducation
1 day ago
In our modern service economy, the customer is supposed to be king. Nobody seems to have told the firms I've been dealing withDo you complain? Do you take goods back to the shop, or ask to see the manager if you are dissatisfied? A growing number of people do: they complain about their mortgages, ab[...]
Children and ParentingHealth and CareGovernment Policy
1 day ago
Former prime minister wrong to say Labour should not have let public debt build up during 2000s, leadership contender saysEd Balls today rounded on Tony Blair after the former prime minister claimed Labour had been wrong to allow the structural deficit to build up during the last decade.The Labour l[...]
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From the NYT:
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30 weeks ago
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32 weeks ago
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33 weeks ago
Via Reuters:The latest budget plan from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would force 200,000 children off low-cost medical insurance, end in-home care for 350,000 infirm and elderly citizens and slash income assistance to hundreds of thousands more.And that's the best-case scenario under Sc[...]