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2 weeks ago
The crisis now threatening the British economy is a chronic and widespread lack of growth. The blame for that lies firmly at the door of the party of austerityGeorge Osborne and David Cameron made little effort to hide their discomfort at last week's news that the economy had slipped back into reces[...]
2 weeks ago
Not all NHS executives are greedy, self-serving monsters and not all lower-paid staff are saintsAndrew Lansley's "market-facing" model for the NHS favours greed at the top – top money for top talent – and need at the bottom, wages minimised in low-wage, low-price areas ("Lansley backs lower pay [...]
2 weeks ago
A new generation of fearless Muslim women are actively starting to challenge inequalities that have faced them for generationsAnyone who has worked in British Muslim communities will tell you the very notion of women's rights is still considered a taboo subject. Like many women who have spent years [...]
2 weeks ago
The mayoral race will be decided according to who the capital's voters hate the mostThe London mayoral election has always been more about personality than party, and one wonders whether this wasn't deliberate, in the first instance. Cast yourself back to May 2000, when the streets ran with credit, [...]
2 weeks ago
Six years as an army commando didn't prepare Neil Sinclair for the minefield of bringing up his children. When he became a stay-at-home-dad, he found what he needed was a straightforward survival manual. So he wrote oneNeil Sinclair has spent six years in the commandos. He has survived win[...]
3 weeks ago
Join our panel of experts from 12pm on Monday 30 April to discuss how the sector can respond to new methods of regulationThe regulation of social housing was formerly passed to the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) after the closure of the Tenant Services Authority (TSA) at the end of March. The sh[...]
3 weeks ago
Join our panel of experts from 12pm on Monday 2 May to discuss how the sector can respond to new methods of regulation
Guardian Unlimited via Zibb.com News 3 weeks ago
Newham housing saga and the bigger London pictureSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Former care homes inspector arrested over bribery allegations
• Local elections: Labour aims to regain ground in Wales
• What can the north expect in next week[...]
• Local elections: Labour aims to regain ground in Wales
• What can the north expect in next week[...]
3 weeks ago
My brother, Chris Burford, who has died aged 67 of a pulmonary embolism, was an NHS consultant psychiatrist. He worked for a large part of his professional life at St Ann's hospital, in Tottenham, north London.His early work focused on adolescent mental health, and included treating young anorexia s[...]
3 weeks ago
The borough's attempts to house benefit claimants elsewhere is representative of a collapse in affordability in the capitalNews that the London borough of Newham, one of the capital's least plush areas, has responded to the impact of government housing benefit caps by seeking alternative accommodati[...]
3 weeks ago
Homes for Haringey has drawn together a group of young advisers to help 'youth proof' its community strategyYou could be forgiven for thinking that in an area like Tottenham, youth engagement is a little lukewarm. But the anarchy that shook its north London estates last August masked the efforts of [...]
3 weeks ago
...through a competitive tender as part of a framework agreement. Mary Castles, Executive Director of Housing and Social Work Services for North Lanarkshire Council, said: "Our £150 million Building for the Future programme will deliver...
www.build.co.uk via Zibb.com News 3 weeks ago
Probation and parole are intended to keep people out of prison, but poor administration means they just keep refilling itThe 2.3 million or so Americans currently doing time in prison have been getting a lot of attention of late, mostly because there are far too many of them and they are costing far[...]
3 weeks ago
Mike and his wife find it's almost impossible to have a telephone conversation with her parents, who are both very deaf and technophobes. Is there an acceptable technological way of combining talking and typing?Both of my wife's parents are very deaf, and it's almost impossible to have a telephone c[...]
3 weeks ago
Housing group wants strong leadership to tackle scandal of rented homes - sub-standard to the point of being dangerous says Antonia Bance, Shelter's head of campaignsAll eyes will be on Liverpool over the coming month as the city's first elected mayor gets down to business. The city is the biggest o[...]
3 weeks ago
...working families. Sorry folks but leveraging your personal wealth in this way does not make you an entrepreneur or social service, ultimately as the whole market is underpinned by housing benefit, it makes you the worst sort of benefit junkie...
Guardian Unlimited via Zibb.com News 3 weeks ago
UK foodbank handouts doubleSign up to Society daily email briefingToday's top SocietyGuardian stories• Foodbank handouts double as more families end up on the breadline
• Elected mayors not wanted by two thirds of voters
• Ken Livingstone: 'This isn't a race to elect a chat-show host[...]
• Elected mayors not wanted by two thirds of voters
• Ken Livingstone: 'This isn't a race to elect a chat-show host[...]
3 weeks ago
No one thinks that using drugs during pregnancy is a good idea, but criminalising them will stop them seeking helpThere is a must-read article in this week's New York Times Sunday magazine about over-zealous Alabama prosecutors bringing charges against drug-addicted mothers. It's a troubling and com[...]
3 weeks ago
Peaks & Plains Housing Trust discarded its letter in disgust at the 'lazy' approach to tackling policy changeNewham's attempts to manage the implications of cuts to the local housing allowance sparked something of a media frenzy this week following an item on the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme. The s[...]
3 weeks ago
Even in 1932, converted flats in Victorian houses were the affordable option for London living, as this comment piece from the Manchester Guardian showsFor the vast majority of Londoners a whole house, even a small one, is out of the question. The days of 'An Englishman's house is his castle' have g[...]
3 weeks ago
Salvation Army findings contradict public perception that crime predominantly affects women who are being sexually exploitedMen account for more than two-fifths (41%) of adult victims of human trafficking in England and Wales helped by the Salvation Army, contrary to the public perception that the c[...]
3 weeks ago
Affordable homes are being demolished, while the budget for new builds is halved and the building industry stagnatesThe attempt by the London borough of Newham to rehouse homeless families in Stoke is a reflection of a broken housing policy. The cap on housing benefit will inevitably lead to displac[...]
3 weeks ago
First, Anna Powell-Smith revolutionised the way women can choose clothes using data. Now she aims to do the same for that other fraught issue: baby names
• More on baby names on the DatablogIf you are a parent, or soon to be a parent, you may already have discovered the US's Baby Name Voyager[...]
• More on baby names on the DatablogIf you are a parent, or soon to be a parent, you may already have discovered the US's Baby Name Voyager[...]
3 weeks ago
The UK is officially back in recession. Is the coalition's economic strategy to blame, or the eurozone crisis? Polly Curtis, with your help, finds out. Get in touch below the line, tweet @pollycurtis or email polly.curtis@guardian.co.uk.10.13am: The Office for National Statistics published GDP figur[...]
3 weeks ago
As the Care Quality Commission launches an inspection programme of of home care services, Philip King explains what the regulator is hoping to learnCare provided in people's homes provides a challenge for regulators. How do you check up on a service being delivered behind closed doors, often to peop[...]
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