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9 hours ago
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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 Housing and Povert News
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
“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[...]
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
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
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 10 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
A Which? survey finds 57% of borrowers are encouraged to take out further loans, while a third say they experienced greater financial problems as a result of taking out the loanAlmost two-thirds of people who took out expensive payday loans have used the money to pay household bills or buy essential[...]
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[...]
19 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[...]
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[...]
1 day ago
... IGNOU, Delhi School of Social Work (DSSW) and Jamia Millia Islamia, the body will work as an intermediary between DUSIB and the non-government organisations that maintain and run the shelters for homeless on government's behalf in the Capital.
Hindustan Times via Google News 1 day ago
Research has found Britain's homes lack storage space for basic domestic essentials. How can we encourage the development of more spacious homes?
Guardian Unlimited via Zibb.com News 1 day ago
Luxury central London apartments as yet unbuilt are fetching vast prices in Hong Kong and SingaporeFrom Fitzrovia News:While tenants in the City of Westminster are struggling to pay their rent in the face of rising property values and housing benefit caps, luxury apartments due to be built on a plot[...]
1 day ago
Figures for 2010 show the number of households in fuel poverty fell by 750,000, but critics point out average bills have risen by £150 since thenThe number of UK households in fuel poverty fell in 2010, but rising energy bills and the reduction of funds for energy efficiency measures mean the fall [...]
1 day ago
Statins could benefit health of millionsSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Statins could benefit health of millions
• Government 'failing to get enough homes built'
• Dave Hill: The London social housing squeeze
• Why are houses in Brit[...]
• Government 'failing to get enough homes built'
• Dave Hill: The London social housing squeeze
• Why are houses in Brit[...]
1 day ago
Social housing providers have to show they can deliver what residents want without a regulator looking over their shoulderAs a parent of two older teenagers entering adulthood, I can't help but notice the similarities between life at home and the state of the housing sector.There comes a time when i[...]
1 day ago
The WA Council of Social Services has welcomed a $58 million, four-year commitment to fund 100 new child health nurses, but said the budget failed to address the shortage of affordable housing. WACOSS chief executive Irina Cattalini said the new nurses ...
Sydney Morning Herald via Google News 1 day ago
One in three hospital patients with condition affected by errors that could lead to dangerously high or low blood glucose levelsNearly one in three hospital patients with diabetes are affected by medication mistakes that can lead to dangerously high or low blood glucose levels, checks have revealed.[...]
1 day ago
Number of completed homes in 2011 less than half what government admits is required annually to meet demandMinisters are failing to tackle the housing crisis and not enough new homes are being built, leading to rising rental levels and growing homelessness and overcrowding, according to a report by [...]
1 day ago
The introduction of regional public sector pay variations has been the subject of anxious discussion following George Osborne's March budget. The deputy prime minister's dismissal of regional public pay sector plans is therefore warmly welcomed as a reiteration of the Liberal Democrats' commitment t[...]
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