Articles by Date : August 01 2008 - August 31 2008

Substance misuse
Around 3.5 million people use drugs each year in the UK and 8.2 million people have an alcohol disorder. Alcohol and drug abuse costs the government.... more
(15 August 2008 16:29)

Youth Justice and the Youth Justice Board
This article contains must-have information about youth justice and the youth justice system, the way youth crime has become a hot topic in the last.... more
(26 August 2008 16:25)

Health
Below is information about health services, and how social care and the NHS works together, and the challenges that multi-agency working can present. more
(12 August 2008 15:58)

Learning by Experience: Children leaving care give their verdict
The Social Care Institute for Excellence offers an overview of other research and resources on children leaving care more
(27 August 2008 11:29)

MPs call on government to overhaul carers benefits
MPs have called for the scrapping of the current carer's allowance and the introduction of new benefits. more
(29 August 2008 12:12)

Children's database launch delayed
Contactpoint, the electronic database that will hold information on all children in England, will miss its October start date, the government has.... more
(29 August 2008 10:18)

News round up: Launch of controversial child database delayed
Other headlines in today's papers include:- Elderly face paying billions more for home help; House price plunge fuels recession fear; North-South.... more
(29 August 2008 07:42)

Launch of controversial child database delayed
Other headlines in today's papers include:- Elderly face paying billions more for home help; House price plunge fuels recession fear; North-South.... more
(29 August 2008 07:42)

Unison activist Karen Reissmann faces unfair dismissal tribunal
Karen Reissmann, the community psychiatric nurse allegedly sacked for speaking out over service cuts and privatisation, will bring a claim of unfair.... more
(29 August 2008 01:49)

Age Concern slams DH for failure to loosen delayed discharge rules
Age Concern has criticised the government for failing to answer calls to amend hospital discharge rules following concerns that older people were.... more
(29 August 2008 00:05)

Ofsted: Children in care lack knowledge of advocacy despite law
One in four children receiving social care do not know what an advocate is, according to a survey by Ofsted. more
(29 August 2008 00:01)

Paralympics: Mencap urges scrapping of learning disability bar
Mencap has called for the ban on athletes with a learning disability from competing at the Paralympics to be lifted ahead of the start of this year's.... more
(29 August 2008 01:56)

Migrant children held too long at Tinsley House, says Owers
Child detainees at Tinsley House immigration removal centre are being held for too long without welfare assessments, the chief inspector of prisons.... more
(28 August 2008 12:18)

Do super-strength lagers encourage homeless people to drink?
Homeless charity Thames Reach has called for restrictions on the sale of super-strength lagers. The charity went head to head with drinks industry.... more
(28 August 2008 11:56)

I used to drink about 15-plus cans of super-strength lager a day
Dennis Rogers recounts the devastation caused by being a super-strength addict and reveals how he wouldn’t be alive today if he hadn’t been stabbed.... more
(28 August 2008 11:49)

Blindness sufferers to get crucial drug on NHS
Other stories include Tories say 'no excuses' for fat children. more
(28 August 2008 09:41)

News round-up: Blindness sufferers to get crucial drug on NHS
Other stories include Tories say 'no excuses' for fat children. more
(28 August 2008 09:38)

Mental capacity: Alarm over DH plans to extend direct payments
Department of Health plans to extend direct payments to people who lack capacity risk putting recipients at risk due to inadequate safeguards,.... more
(28 August 2008 01:00)

Jack Straw receives thumbs down from sector for Titan prisons
Government plans to build three “Titan” prisons to tackle overcrowding have received “near unanimous opposition” from criminal justice campaigners. more
(28 August 2008 00:51)

Scotland: Big rise in self-funders receiving free personal care
Scottish government figures published this week revealed a significant rise in the number of self-funding care home residents receiving free personal.... more
(27 August 2008 17:32)

Directors call for extra funding for assessment framework pilots
Forthcoming pilots of the Common Assessment Framework for Adults must be backed by sufficient funding if they are to succeed, the Association of.... more
(27 August 2008 14:38)

Review: Devon - of sound mind (living with schizophrenia)
A photographic exhibition that highlights living with schizophrenia leaves a stark impression, says Keith Sellick more
(27 August 2008 13:01)

Career Clinic: I am on on holiday during job interviews
Q: I've applied for a role which closes in a few days, but I am going on annual leave for three weeks and am worried that the assessments and.... more
(27 August 2008 12:05)

Diary: a care worker in a nursing home writes
A practitioner's take on the week more
(28 August 2008 00:00)

jason and the jargonauts: more social care gobbledygook
Welcome to the column seeking to expose purveyors of social care gobbledygook more
(28 August 2008 00:00)

Editorial comment: finding the balance between choice and safety
The personalisation agenda is about handing over more choice and control to service users. more
(28 August 2008 00:00)

Editorial comment: Owers slams Yarl's Wood holding disabled children
The Home Office's UK Border Agency's website is peppered with the phrases "managing migration" and "enforcing our immigration laws" - hardly.... more
(28 August 2008 00:01)

ADASS and LGA unhappy with CSCI inspection proposals in adult care
Commission for Social Care Inspection plans to change councils' targets risk increasing burdens on adult care departments. more
(28 August 2008 00:01)

Hammersmith and Fulham home care charges challenged in court
One of the last English local authorities to offer free home care faces a judicial review over its recent decision to introduce charges for the.... more
(28 August 2008 00:01)

Care Standards Tribunal rebukes councils over bogus social worker
The Care Standards Tribunal has accused three UK councils of failings that could have put vulnerable children at risk by allowing a man with bogus.... more
(28 August 2008 00:01)

Contact A Family: up benefits for families of disabled children
Benefits for families with disabled children must increase, says charity Contact a Family, after it found 16% had gone without food and heating in.... more
(27 August 2008 11:18)

Older people's groups fill care market advice gap with FirstStop
An advice service for older people that aims to tackle a massive information gap has been launched by four big older people's organisations. more
(27 August 2008 00:00)

Paedophiles to be offered chemical castration
Other headlines in today's papers include:- Five years on, did first mass Asbo succeed?; Call for stronger powers after Trafford Council defies.... more
(27 August 2008 09:11)

News round up: Paedophiles to be offered chemical castration
Other headlines in today's papers include:- Five years on, did first mass Asbo succeed?; Call for stronger powers after Trafford Council defies.... more
(27 August 2008 09:10)

Child poverty is one of the 'greatest dangers' to health, says study
Poverty is one of the “greatest dangers” to the health of children in the UK, according to a report released today by campaign coalition End Child.... more
(27 August 2008 08:16)

Cafcass Cymru wants to take over care plan monitoring
Cafcass Cymru says it could improve the monitoring of care plans of looked-after children if it could enlist local authorities' independent reviewing.... more
(26 August 2008 14:31)

GSCC: Practitioner suspended for failure to account for user's cash
A General Social Care Council conduct committee has suspended a social worker from practice for 18 months for failing to account for his role in.... more
(26 August 2008 14:07)

Rod Morgan attacks increased criminalisation of young people
More children and young people have been "criminalised" in recent years for behaviour which would be better dealt with informally, the former Youth.... more
(26 August 2008 12:03)

Police to get access to child protection database
Other headlines in today's papers include: Convicts could go free 20 days early as jails hit bursting point; Tories say Labour neglects teenage health more
(26 August 2008 09:05)

News round up: Police to get access to child protection database
Other headlines in today's papers include: Convicts could go free 20 days early as jails hit bursting point; Tories say Labour neglects teenage health more
(26 August 2008 09:04)

Care home workers reveal catalogue of grievances
Employment advisers deal with more grievances from independent care home workers than any other low-paid profession, a survey has found. more
(26 August 2008 08:37)

GSCC conduct case: Mabel Rose cleared of misconduct
A social worker has been cleared of misconduct charges following a three-day hearing before a General Social Care Council committee in London this.... more
(22 August 2008 18:13)

Adass issues warning over PCT learning disability funding transfer
Adult care directors have raised concerns over government plans to transfer NHS adult learning disability funding for social care to councils on the.... more
(22 August 2008 17:57)

Readers' letters in the 28 August issue
Letters include: Gay discrimination, Doctors shun advocates, Price squeeze hits homecare, Challenging dementia document more
(22 August 2008 17:23)

National Young Carers Coalition launched to campaign for group
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, the Children's Society and other charities have forged a National Young Carers Coalition to campaign on behalf.... more
(19 August 2008 15:53)

Catholic Church addresses abuse record
Bill Kilgallon, chair of the new Catholic Safeguarding Commission, explains how the church has made such great strides in tackling its poor record on.... more
(22 August 2008 15:30)

Problems facing lone social workers
Social work practitioners often find themselves working with team members from other professions who may doubt their worth, reports Corin Williams more
(22 August 2008 12:00)

Nightime youth curfew shows signs of success
Police in Redruth recently tried a voluntary approach to dispersal orders, but reactions were mixed, says Craig Kenny more
(28 August 2008 00:00)

Forced marriage of people with learning disabilities
The exploitation of learning disabilities in forced marriages has only recently come to light, but it is a practice that has gone on for years,.... more
(22 August 2008 12:31)

Helping unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving at Heathrow Airport
Anabel Unity Sale meets the social workers who support young asylum seekers who turn up at Heathrow alone and afraid You are 14, alone and scared more
(22 August 2008 12:23)