Articles by Date : March 01 2005 - March 31 2005

Election 2005 campaign: Focus on Youth Crime
More than 80 per cent of adults believe that young people would be less likely to commit crimes if their social problems were tackled early, a survey.... more
(02 March 2005 12:01)

Workforce
Workforce Workforce - the public sector workforce easily becomes a political football – particularly in relation to police, nurses and.... more
(03 March 2005 11:59)

Education
Education   Education - a major election issue but the debates around parental choice and educational.... more
(03 March 2005 12:02)

Survey of education professionals
New research into education and inclusion During February 2005 a survey of more than 1,000 professionals working in education was carried out.... more
(15 March 2005 09:58)

What the public think about education
What the public think about education   A survey of more than 1,900 members of the general public.... more
(15 March 2005 10:06)

Youth crime
Youth crime   Youth crime and antisocial behaviour - the political debate is often about "getting.... more
(03 March 2005 11:33)

Care for older people
Care for older people   Care for older people - the political debate focuses on NHS waiting lists and.... more
(03 March 2005 11:41)

Survey about care for older people
What professionals think. more
(09 March 2005 00:00)

Interview with Al Aynsley-Green
Transcript of Al Aynsley-Green's first in-depth interview since his appointment as children's commissioner   .... more
(24 March 2005 12:01)

January 2005
Butterworths Family  and Child Law Bulletin Bulletin Editor Jonathan Montgomery, BA, LLM Professor of Law, University of Southampton .... more
(04 March 2005 11:43)

Profile - Pixley Clarke
Pixley Clarke is a service inspector at the Commission for Social Care Inspection, primarily working with children and families. more
(10 March 2005 00:00)

Profile - Lord Adebowale
Lord Adebowale is chief executive at Turning Point, the charity working with people with learning difficulties, mental illness and substance misuse.... more
(24 March 2005 00:00)

Why I love my job - Morag Reid
Morag Reid is outreach and education project manager at Wirral Brook in Merseyside. Brook provides sexual health advice and services to young people. more
(24 March 2005 00:00)

Why I Love My Job - Hugh Thornbery
Hugh Thornbery is the director of children's services for NCH in the West Midlands. He oversees nearly 50 services with 650 staff which meet the.... more
(10 March 2005 00:00)

Sixty Second Interview with Kathryn Hudson
Sixty Second Interview with Kathryn Hudson. more
(29 March 2005 16:34)

Sixty second interview with Michael Bichard
Sixty Second Interview with Michael Bichard more
(22 March 2005 10:08)

Sixty Second Interview with Brian Gibbons
Sixty Second Interview with Brian Gibbons, the new minister for health and social care in Wales. more
(17 March 2005 17:10)

Sixty second interview with Maddy Ford
Sixty second interview with Maddy Ford, a member of the Children and Youth Board. more
(09 March 2005 11:21)

Sixty second interview with Hilton Dawson MP
Sixty second interview with Hilton Dawson MP. more
(03 March 2005 14:44)

MIND
Mind Annual Conference more
(29 March 2005 15:32)

Web Review
www.TheSite.org more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Pointing the finger at parents
Penalising parents for the disruptive school behaviour of their children will make matters worse - they need help, writes Dorit Braun. more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Dealing with school bullies
Classmates and teachers supporting each other can help reduce bullying more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Just the job
Carolyn Maw is a parent partnership support worker at the Derby and Derbyshire Parent Partnership Service. more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Pots of Gold
A new series on sources of funds for organisations working with children and teeenagers: Bridge House Trust more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Mother Courage
Another storm passes through James's household. This time money is the trigger. more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Let's get serious
Parenting support is set to be professionalised. Not before time, says Sarah Wellard. more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Let's be friends...
Sometimes it can be hard to know how to go about making a friend. It might seem that everyone else has friends and it is just you who doesn't. Or if.... more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

More support for troubled families
'Nuisance neighbours' to get rehabilitation offer. more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Blame the parents
The government is holding parents responsible for their children's behaviour in school. more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Testing times
Will random testing in schools stop drug use among students, asks Simon Vevers. more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Too much information?
Agencies need to share data on children but at what cost to confidentiality? more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

My Life
How do young children view hospital? Matthew McCulloch aged eight, tells his story. more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

What's good about single sex schools?
Martin Hemming talks to teenagers about the pros and cons of single sex education. Are they missing out of having a ball? more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

Too young to care?
Many children have a hard life looking after parents of siblings with disabilities. Joy Ogden reports. more
(01 March 2005 00:00)

More than just a fad?
The government is committed to giving advocates more of a statutory role but who is going to train and monitor the expanded numbers, asks Katie.... more
(24 March 2005 00:00)

‘Social workers are easy media targets’
The British Association of Social Workers has criticised media reports naming a social worker for his part in a case involving a man who killed his.... more
(24 March 2005 00:00)

The Simon Heng Column
Care based on voluntary support would involve a change towards an idea of community that in many parts of the country simply doesn't exist. more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

Have things only got better?
It’s been almost eight years since the Labour party was elected. With the next general election just around the corner, we ask six social care.... more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

If you ask me...
Alan Lowe has learning difficulties and receives support from the chairty Partners for Inclusion. more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

Children taken into care due to asylum policy
Newborn babies are being taken into care as a result of a government policy that makes their asylum seeking mothers destitute, it was alleged this.... more
(31 March 2005 11:06)

Backchat
Community care minister Stephen Ladyman was recently asked about the importance of "Modern Methods of Construction" for builders of Extra Care.... more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

Marriage guidance
The Foreign Office is working with social services to deal with the issue of forced marriages. Hannah Miller and Vinay Talwar highlight good practice.... more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

Beyond teaching
Child protection is increasingly a part of a teacher's job. Anabel Unity Sale examines the levels of training and partnership arrangements needed to.... more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

Charity to recruit ex-rough sleepers
A homelessness charity is pledging to fill up to a quarter of its staff vacancies with former rough sleepers. more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

Welsh fear censure over too few Asbos
MPs are urging the government not to discriminate against Wales for issuing fewer antisocial behaviour orders than England. more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

Looser approach to role wins plaudits
The government's less prescriptive approach to the director of adult social services role - compared with the children's equivalent - has been.... more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

Green paper rings with past echoes
The adult social care green paper envisages a future of person-centred care. But will it happen, asks Melanie Henwood. more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

Department queries institute's stance
Campaigners hoping to reverse a proposal to withdraw four Alzheimer's drugs from the NHS received a boost last week. more
(31 March 2005 00:00)

Shameful use of law
Politicians are economical with the truth. So it's no surprise that less than a year after children's minister Margaret Hodge insisted that taking.... more
(31 March 2005 00:00)