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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 ...
St. Joseph news, sports, entertainment and business. Merging the St. Joseph News-Press and News-Pres via Google News Heal 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[...]
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[...]
5 hours ago
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[...]
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
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[...]
8 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
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
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[...]
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
And it is the future of social work – particularly of adult social work – that I want to talk about today. You enrich people's lives, you solve problems and you make change happen. Let's be honest, social work and social care are often in the news for ...
dh.gov.uk via Google News 9 hours ago
A collaborative of housing, health and social-service organizations plans to build 50 cottages for the area's most hard-core homeless and give them needed services. The goal is for them to become productive members of society — or at least cost society ...
Dallas Business Journal via Google News 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 10 hours ago
My trip to Dignitas with my ex-wife confirmed my belief that UK law must change – and inspired my play An Instinct for KindnessIt's Tuesday 9 November 2010. Seven in the morning and I'm in a hotel in Switzerland, drinking espresso, smoking roll-ups and my head spinning cartwheels of anxiety. The t[...]
10 hours ago
Changes to proposed regulations on Medicare conditions of participation will maintain self-governing medical staff requirements at hospitals and save nearly $1 billion.
American Medical Association via Zibb.com News 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 [...]
11 hours ago
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Guardian Unlimited via Zibb.com News 12 hours ago
He spends his days in Dorset collecting and distributing prescriptions – as well as occasionally reading the GruffaloAppropriately for the owner of a small, family business, the day begins with the business of my small family, namely six-month-old Ella, followed by breakfast with her big sister Gr[...]
16 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 16 hours ago
CHAMBERSBURG - Terry Shade, executive director and CEO of Lutheran Home Care & Hospice and vice president, community health services for Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania, has been elected to the Pennsylvania Homecare Association ...
Chambersburg Public Opinion via Google News Latest Blog
1 hour ago
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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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 [...]
6 days ago
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[...]
1 week ago
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[...]
1 week ago
By Paul R. Pace, News staff NASW has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the individual health mandate and Medicaid provisions outlined in the Affordable Care Act in two amicus briefs, coordinated by the Legal Defense Fund, so that quality health care is available and affordable for all. A new NA[...]
1 week ago
Social Work: Credentials, Climate and Value Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:30 – 2:30 PM Eastern This webinar will provide a brief background of the hospice and palliative care macro-level climate in which social workers operate. Learn the significance of credentialing and its relevant terminology for[...]
3 weeks ago
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is expected to come up for reauthorization in the Senate next week. (We previously wrote about this bill back in January.) The protections the reauthorized bill would offer for all women, regardless of their circumstances, are crucial. VAWA establishes a [...]
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