Articles by Date : April 01 2005 - April 30 2005

Stop the Panic
Fears about paedophile rings or satanic abuse have skewed child protection work but have resulted in few convictions. It's time to be more sceptical.... more
(07 April 2005 10:22)

Reports on the campaign
Coverage Please see below for a list of the articles about the election campaign which have appeared in Community Care and at .... more
(18 April 2005 08:14)

Community Care's Election Campaign
Community Care's Election 2005 campaign is designed to raise the issue of social care during the coming general election. more
(18 April 2005 08:00)

Profile - Philip Collett
Philip Collett's start in life as a homeless teenager inspired him to motivate others. more
(07 April 2005 00:00)

Profile - Dafydd Ifans
Dafydd Ifans is chief executive of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service Cymru. more
(21 April 2005 00:00)

Why I love my job - Lucy Steels-Walshaw
Lucy Steels-Walshaw is a drugs worker in York with Compass, a charity working with people misusing drugs. more
(07 April 2005 00:00)

Why I love my job - William J Gallagher
William J Gallagher is service manager at Randall Close day centre, in Battersea, London, run by disability charity Leonard Cheshire. more
(21 April 2005 00:00)

Sixty Second Interview with Stephen Burke
Sixty Second Interview more
(12 April 2005 14:17)

Career clinic
I am in my fifties with 30 years' social work experience, generally as a basic grade worker in council area offices. more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Career Clinic
One of my colleagues is on long-term sick leave, supposedly with a bad back. I saw him playing tennis last week but he didn't see me. What do I do? I.... more
(14 April 2005 00:00)

Sixty Second Interview with Alexis Jay
Sixty Second Interview with Alexis Jay. more
(07 April 2005 09:28)

Sixty Second Interview with Ian Johnston
Sixty Second Interview with Ian Johnston more
(21 April 2005 11:18)

Sixty Second Interview with Frances Crook
Sixty Second interview with Frances Crook By Amy Taylor   Frances Crook Frances Crook is the.... more
(26 April 2005 15:23)

Cosla annual conference
Cosla's annual conference 13-15 April, St Andrews Scottish executive looking to cut back social worker directors Review claim that.... more
(25 April 2005 13:03)

ADSS Spring Seminar 2005
ADSS Spring Seminar 2005 13-15 April 2005 CSCI seeks post-election talks with the government Staff worried that self-assessment plans.... more
(25 April 2005 12:54)

Nacro's annual youth crime conference
Nacro's annual youth crime conference 13-15 April 2005, Loughborough Children's services shake-up may leave young offenders at margins .... more
(25 April 2005 12:49)

Out to woo new parents
The main political parties are offering far more to the families of under-fives than at the last election. Sarah Wellard reports. more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

Let's recap...
With the election imminent it's time to look over this government's achievements and explore the other main parties' programmes. more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

A bumpy ride?
For many, punitive asylum and antisocial behaviour policies have tarnished Labour's record on children age five to 13. Simon Vevers reports. more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

No recourse
Newborn babies are being taken into care because their mothers have no money. Simon Vevers reports. more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

'We should talk'
Angela Neustatter describes the use of mediation to resolve conflicts in school. more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

Just the job
Tony James is a young people's substance misuse worker at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

Just the job
Susan O'Callaghan is a physical activity development officer for Tower Hamlets Council, east London. She works with children diagnosed as clinically.... more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

Pots of Gold
Sources of funds for organisations working with children and teenagers: Jack Petchey Foundation more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

Pots of Gold
Sources of funds for organisations working with children and teenagers: Camelot Foundation more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

The people next door...
How do you help the families everybody hates? Joy Ogden reports on a project that reduced evictions and kept children out of care through intensive.... more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

Live and learn
What is being done to prevent teenage parents being cut off from education and work? Joy Ogden reports. more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

What can be done about stress?
School work, fear of failure, peer group pressure... Andrea Wren asks teenagers in Hyde, Cheshire, how stress affects them and what they do to cope. .... more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

'Settle down now'
Joy Ogden describes how hyperactivity affects children and young people and looks at ways of moderating its impact. more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

Read the signs
Early detection is crucial for children with hearing loss, Joy Ogden investigates. more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

Work with Conviction
Despite there being a labour shortage in London, ex-offenders still find it difficult to get jobs. Joy Macknight reports on a scheme that is.... more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Guide to growing up
The children’s workforce strategy proposes several changes to professional roles. Claire Cameron promotes the European model of social pedagogue as.... more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Needle exchange inmate may appeal
A prisoner may appeal after his application for a judicial review to introduce a needle exchange in the prison service was refused. more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Children's centre growth must not be at expense of quality, staff told
Standards must not be compromised in the rush to meet the government's targets on the creation of children's centres over the next five years,.... more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Devil's in the detail
Many pensioners waiting for their £200 council tax refund will be disappointed, writes Gary Vaux. more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Mother with mental health problems admits murder
A woman with mental health problems has admitted killing her three-week-old baby by cooking him in an oven, writes Clare Jerrom . more
(29 April 2005 15:40)

Scottish commissioner calls for an end to detaining asylum seeking children
A UK-wide approach to ending the detention of asylum seeking children is needed, according to the Scottish children’s commissioner Kathleen Marshall,.... more
(29 April 2005 11:12)

Round-up of the week
Round up of the week beginning 25 April. more
(29 April 2005 10:44)

Institutional racism at Feltham YOI contributed to death, inquiry told
Institutional racism in the Prison Service and Feltham Young Offender Institution contributed to the murder of Zahid Mubarek by Robert Stewart, it.... more
(28 April 2005 15:10)

Friday 29 April 2005
Mubarek family slam Prison Service Prison population at record high levels more
(29 April 2005 09:54)

Professionals think Labour has performed poorly on immigration issues
Asylum and immigration is the social care area on which the government has performed most poorly according to professionals working in the sector, a .... more
(28 April 2005 08:47)

Regulator's angst over Ealing ruling
The Audit Commission's job of assessing councils will become "unworkable" if judges uphold a ruling that it wrongly downgraded Ealing Council because.... more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Council 'awareness course row' settled
A disabled woman who was discriminated against on a disability awareness course run by Liverpool Council won £2,000 damages for injury to her.... more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

What the politicians have promised and what campaigners want
Labour More detention of asylum seekers whose claims have failed. Electronic tagging of those the government says are at risk.... more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

0 - 19: Are you interested in the election?
Zenab Short visits a college in Oxfordshire to gauge teenagers' views of the general election. Does apathy or activisim reign? more
(27 April 2005 00:00)

Book Review: Goodbye Dearest Holly
For people who work with victims, witnesses and bereaved people Kevin Wells's account of the murder of his daughter Holly and her friend Jessica,.... more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Book Review: - Reflections on research: The realities of doing research in the social sciences
There are many books that tell us "how to do" research but this tells us "how it went", writes Elaine Argyle. more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Book Review: Women who offend
It is perhaps over-ambitious to pitch this book, that houses a useful collection of feminist research into offending, at policymakers and.... more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Empty homes spark Home Office row
Manchester Council and the Home Office are in disagreement over properties reserved for asylum seekers that are lying empty. more
(28 April 2005 00:00)

Unthinkable, unbearable...
...are words that many parents would attach to the thought of their children being murdered. Yet there are many who have had to face this horror..... more
(28 April 2005 00:00)