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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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...Posted to Mad World by Mad World College of Social Work and BASW look set to merge Posted to The Social Work Blog by The Social Work Blog Involving service users in social work...
Communitycare.co.uk via Zibb.com News 4 hours ago
Half of the learning disability services inspected by the Care Quality Commission in the wake of Winterbourne View are not meeting essential standards on safeguarding residents and caring for them. The CQC said the findings were a cause for concern.
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[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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Former foreign secretary highlights costs of youth unemployment as he attacks George Osborne's austerity measuresThe Labour party is stirring. The appointment of Jon Cruddas as the party's policy co-ordinator has been widely welcomed while Tony Blair is letting it be known that he supports Labour's [...]
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The care services minister has put social workers at the heart of his plans to transform social care from a "high-dependency service" to one that supports people to stay independent.
6 hours ago
The hormone dopamine is responsible for the cravings of addiction, but when levels are abnormally low it causes the muscular twitches of Parkinson's disease
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[...]
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On-air mistake occurred in report on Twitter users who allegedly revealed identity of footballer Ched Evans's victimNorth Wales police have referred Sky News to the Crown Prosecution Service and the attorney general's office following the accidental broadcast of a rape victim's name.Officers from No[...]
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The man, who spent eight years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the murder of the TV presenter Jill Dando, is to fight a test case for compensation.
www.thisislondon.co.uk via Zibb.com News 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
A striking image of social work & young peoples' views of care user-pic By Andy McNicoll on May 18, 2012 12:47 PM | No Comments SW_CCLIVE.jpg What do looked after young people, and the social workers that support them, feel about the care process and mental health services? A striking set of images
Communitycare.co.uk via Zibb.com News 7 hours ago
Jeanette Maitland said virtually every interaction with Aberdeen's social services team – which often involved two carers four times a day – featured a new face. The city council said it would look into the matter. "I started taking note of the names ...
Public Service via Google News 7 hours ago
Some Pakistani men believe “white girls are fair game” for sexual abuse, the Cabinet Minister and Tory co-chairman Baroness Warsi says today.
www.thisislondon.co.uk via Zibb.com News 7 hours ago
“We gave them rides to Social Services and they have been offered assistance,” he said. Meredith Sheehan, supervisor of social work at the Ocean County Board of Social Services, confirmed there was an outreach made to provide information about services ...
Downers Grove, IL Patch via Google 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[...]
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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 [...]
7 hours ago
This week's social life blogger explains what he teaches – and learns – working with refugees in social care
Guardian Unlimited via Zibb.com News 8 hours ago
By Tony Reaves, Sun Journal PARIS, Maine — A Rumford woman charged with defrauding the state of more than $10000 in social service benefits will stand trial next week. Amy L. Knowlton, 30, faces charges of theft by deception and unsworn falsification.
Bangor Daily News via Google News 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[...]
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The Disneyfication of gay marriage in Japan does the country's civil partnership campaign few favoursNews that a lesbian couple will be allowed to "perform" a non-legally binding commitment ceremony in Tokyo Disneyland is being celebrated as a victory for the burgeoning civil partnership campaign in[...]
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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
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• Child support charges could increase poverty, warn MPs
• Remploy bidders offered wage subsidy
• Pa[...]
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By Paul R. Pace, News Staff National Professional Social Work Month was celebrated in March and the theme “Social Work Matters” was heralded from coast to coast. “Social workers believe that a nation’s strength depends on the ability of the majority of its citizens to lead productive and hea[...]
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International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (or IDAHO) is an opportunity to draw attention to the inequities experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons every day and in every part of the world. It is also a day to recognize and continue the progress that has been made [...]
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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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On April 26, 2012 the U.S. Senate reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) including the provision of expanded protections for Native Americans, undocumented immigrants, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Questioning (LGBQ) community. However, it soon became clear that the Republican lead[...]
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For the first time in the history of our country a sitting President has publicly announced his personal support for same-sex marriage. The announcement by President Obama, coming off the heels of the disappointing North Carolina vote to ban same-sex marriages through a constitutional amendment, s[...]
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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[...]
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May 19, 1012 is the first ever Hepatitis Testing Day inthe United States. Since chronic hepatitis often does not cause any symptoms until serious liver damage has been done, testing for hepatitis is crucial. Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C can become chronic, life-long infections which can lead to liver[...]
