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n a New York Times opinion piece, a sitting state supreme court judge writes of his cancer and the palliative drug he depends onA New York State supreme court judge has written an impassioned plea to legalize medical marijuana in the state, potentially taking New York one step closer to becoming th[...]
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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 5 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.
6 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[...]
6 hours ago
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[...]
6 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[...]
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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 [...]
6 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.
7 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
7 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[...]
7 hours ago
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 8 hours ago
18/5/2012 - 18/05/2012 - Parenting course for new adopters
www.cumbria.gov.uk via Zibb.com News 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 [...]
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 9 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[...]
9 hours ago
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
• Pa[...]
• Child support charges could increase poverty, warn MPs
• Remploy bidders offered wage subsidy
• Pa[...]
9 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[...]
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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 admire
Guardian Unlimited via Zibb.com News 9 hours ago
Join our panel of experts from 12pm on Monday 21 May to discuss how the housing sector can provide for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residentsOne in five lesbian and gay people expect discrimination from housing providers when applying for social housing, according to a YouGov poll commissi[...]
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