Articles by Date : July 01 2004 - July 31 2004

Children's directors being set up to fail
Fears that the role of children's services director could effectively be one of "responsibility without power" were raised by the leader of Bradford.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

School social workers will lead to more child abuse referrals
Referrals concerning vulnerable children will increase once social workers are based within schools and doctors surgeries, the Improvement and.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Local partnerships have 'largely failed'
Private sector involvement in local strategic partnerships has largely failed, according to the chair of the economic development steering group at.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Voluntary groups should look to improve relations with councils
Voluntary organisations must set aside disputes with councils that in some cases may have lasted 20 years and become allies against central.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Tories would scrap Best Value regime
Comprehensive performance assessment and Best Value would be scrapped if the Conservatives came to power, Michael Howard said last week. more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Education plans will 'diminish local councils' and undermine services
The reform of children's services could be undermined by the government's five-year education strategy, the Local Government Association has warned. more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Lords' smacking law disappoints
Fifty-eight per cent of voters at Community Care 's website said they were not happy with the amendment agreed in the House of Lords to allow.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Stalker gets life for campaign of terror
A man has been jailed for life for a terror campaign against people he suspected of trying to section him under the Mental Health Act 1983. more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

'Include Muslims in Race Relations Act'
The Commission for Racial Equality has called for the Race Relations Act 1976 to be extended to include Muslims as a recognised group with the same.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Accommodation centre plan in chaos
The government's plans to set up a series of asylum accommodation centres were plunged further into disarray last week after the deputy prime.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Prison service to improve transport
New contracts for escorting juvenile offenders to and from court are coming into force next month, heralding an end to the poor conditions young.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Chancellor targets public sector 'sickies'
The chancellor pledged to tackle sickness levels in the public sector in his three-year spending review announced this week. more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

On the naughty step
Education secretary Charles Clarke could do with a few lessons from Channel 4's Supernanny . While the programme's Jo Frost tames tyrannical.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

A strange kind of win
To hear Gordon Brown talk you'd think we'd never had it so good. He assures us we are experiencing "the longest sustained investment in public.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Rise in hospital readmissions is cue for fresh concern over discharges
Emergency hospital readmissions of older people have risen as delayed discharge rates have fallen, raising concerns some patients are being.... more
(15 July 2004 00:00)

Socnow shows councils are making headway in recruiting in north west
More than 700 attended the North West Social Care Event – Socnow – in Manchester Town Hall on 3 June. This was double the number that attended the.... more
(14 July 2004 15:32)

Getting young offenders Back on Track
Recruitment Talk ’s sister magazine Community Care launched a new campaign this month to improve the treatment of young offenders in the UK. more
(14 July 2004 15:30)

Staff lack support and are over-worked, survey reveals
Nearly half of front-line workers and their managers believe they are inadequately supported and trained, new findings reveal. more
(14 July 2004 15:45)

Thursday 15 July 2004
BNP documentary broadcast Soaps to curb sex and violence more
(15 July 2004 09:36)

Scotland launches review of social work
A year-long independent review will take a “fundamental look” at social work, the Scottish executive announced last month. more
(14 July 2004 15:37)

Councils offer bursaries to prospective staff
The introduction of the social work degree is aimed at increasing the professionalism of social workers. To help students with the cost of doing the.... more
(14 July 2004 15:35)

Wednesday 14 July 2004
Race bias in CRE Scotland Yard will investigate baby deaths more
(14 July 2004 10:15)

Patient, heal thyself
A programme is training patients to become experts in managing their own illnesses. Anabel Unity Sale reports on how it is helping them improve.... more
(13 July 2004 16:53)

Tagging asylum seekers could breach their human rights, campaigners warn
Campaigners have warned that the government’s plans to electronically tag asylum seekers and failed asylum seekers could breach their human rights, .... more
(13 July 2004 16:44)

Delayed discharge policy could create readmissions, NHS watchdog warns
Emergency hospital readmissions of older people have gone up as delayed discharge rates have fallen, raising concerns some patients are being.... more
(13 July 2004 15:45)

More money for Children’s Centres and extended schools
A further ambitious expansion of services for young children has been announced by the government. more
(13 July 2004 10:18)

Hidden homelessness costs £1.4 bn a year, says charity
Homelessness charity Crisis has called on the government to undertake a census of Britain’s hidden homeless to start to tackle a problem it estimates.... more
(13 July 2004 10:43)

Government makes school uniforms compulsory
A school uniform for every school is among the reforms announced last week by Education Secretary Charles Clarke. more
(13 July 2004 10:17)

Teenage years the hardest for parents
Three quarters of parents identify their children’s teen years as the most difficult period for them as parents, and more than half worry that they.... more
(13 July 2004 10:15)

Tuesday 13 July 2004
Catholics admit to hidden child sex abuse ‘Unrecorded’ homeless hits 380,000 more
(13 July 2004 10:14)

Prison damaging for young people
The mother of a sixteen year old boy who committed suicide while in a young offender institution has called on the government to stop putting.... more
(13 July 2004 10:12)

Tender care best for baby boys
Parents should treat baby boys as gently as they would girls, according to a child and adolescent psychiatrist. more
(13 July 2004 10:11)

Education strategy could undermine children's services reform
The reform of children’s services could be undermined by the government’s five-year education strategy, the Local Government Association has warned, .... more
(12 July 2004 17:19)

Early years' services and childcare benefit from spending review
The government will invest an extra £769 million in early years’ services and child care by 2008-2008, chancellor Gordon Brown has announced, .... more
(12 July 2004 17:38)

Back on Track: Aims and Objectives
Community Care is campaigning for a dramatic reduction in the number of children and young people being held in custody and calling for the greater.... more
(08 July 2004 10:33)

Back on Track: Background Information
These are just some of the problems that have become an everyday reality for many of the 2,500 children and young people and the 8,500 18-21 year.... more
(08 July 2004 10:34)

Back on Track: Helping Young Children and Young People to get Back on Track
Using carefully targeted prevention projects as an approach to reduce offending amongst children and young people has proved highly successful. more
(08 July 2004 10:33)

Real Lives - A Child Failed by the System
Joseph Scholes was just 16 years old and only nine days into his prison sentence when he took his own life at Stoke Heath Young Offender Institution.... more
(12 July 2004 10:37)

Campaign calls for a cut in the number of children in custody
A youth justice campaign calling for a dramatic reduction in the number of children in prison has been launched by Community Care this week, writes.... more
(08 July 2004 12:21)

Monday 12 July 2004
Cannabis 'is trigger for mental health problems' DfES to slash staff more
(12 July 2004 10:02)

Half-ahrsed
The government has got the health care side of its alcohol strategy right but messed up on social care, writes Eric Appleby, chief executive of.... more
(08 July 2004 00:00)

Friday 9 July 2004
Maternity pay increase plan angers employers Population update ends census error more
(09 July 2004 10:13)

Drugs bust?
For the past three years, the National Treatment Agency has tackled drug abuse in England with some success. Far more people now receive effective.... more
(08 July 2004 00:00)

Death of the department
The social services department has been a doughty champion of social work and social care but the institution that has kept social workers at the.... more
(08 July 2004 00:00)

A life more ordinary
Five people with learning difficulties moved into supported living in the community. Did their quality of life improve? Sarah Coates and co-authors.... more
(08 July 2004 00:00)

Obstacles on the pathway
Bob Broad analyses research suggesting that the life chances of care leavers have improved since legislation to help them was implemented three years.... more
(08 July 2004 00:00)

Young, troubled and banged up
Community Care is calling for a dramatic reduction in the number of young people we put behind bars. Janet Snell launches our Back on Track youth.... more
(08 July 2004 00:00)

If you ask me...
Mabel Cooper is chair of the London Consultative Group, a self-advocacy group for disabled people. more
(08 July 2004 00:00)

The Simon Heng Column
A service user's view of social care. more
(08 July 2004 00:00)

The big question
Why are so many children in custody in the UK? more
(08 July 2004 00:00)