Articles by Date : October 01 2005 - October 31 2005

Sixty Second Interview with Juliet Lyon
Sixty Second Interview with Juliet Lyon   Juliet Lyon By Amy Taylor A seminar run by the Mubarek.... more
(03 October 2005 16:18)

Friday 21 October 2005
EU citizens lead record rise in migrants more
(21 October 2005 00:00)

Missing Word Answers
Answers to this weeks missing words round more
(21 October 2005 00:00)

Jones steps into Hunter’s shoes with a quest for new alliances
With the rise in prominence of other professional groups, the Association of Directors of Social Services’ new president will need to answer.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Disabled people unaware of services
Significant numbers of disabled people have their choices limited due to not being aware of the services available to them, delegates heard today. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Poor immigration lawyers should be named and shamed
Badly performed immigration lawyers should be named and shamed, delegates were told yesterday at a meeting in London. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Early intervention costs, Coughlan warns
A greater focus on preventive services for children will not save councils money, a children’s services director told the national social services.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Councillor urges change in commissioning of health and social care
Adult social care and primary health should be commissioned from a single pot of money by local government-led partnerships, a leading councillor.... more
(19 October 2005 00:00)

Hewitt: social care will not be marginalised
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has promised that social care will not be marginalised by the NHS in the forthcoming white paper on care services. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Is the internet dangerous for suicidal children?
Disturbing stories about children visiting websites to talk about killing themselves and making suicide pacts in chatrooms are in the news. Mother.... more
(14 October 2005 14:45)

Borders progresses with a number of firsts for Scotland
Vulnerable people with learning difficulties are benefiting from an overhaul of services in a Scottish council in the wake of a serious sex abuse.... more
(14 October 2005 16:03)

Family court plans to go ahead
Government plans to streamline family and civil court proceedings have been given the go ahead by the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs,.... more
(19 October 2005 00:00)

DH acknowledges that resources are key to deliver adult reforms
The Department of Health has “heard loud and clear” the message from social care that it needs more resources to meet existing and future service.... more
(19 October 2005 00:00)

Shake-up of PCTs announced
The government has announced its plans for pushing through the shake-up of primary care trusts, initially launched in July. more
(19 October 2005 00:00)

Funding for mental health services announced
A new tranche of government investment in the mental health estate could bring an end to the controversial practice of confining people in mental.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Trafficking inquiry launched
An inquiry has been launched into the human rights of people trafficked into the UK. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Green slams quality of social care commissioning
The chief executive of the English Community Care Association launched a stinging attack today on the quality of social care commissioning by.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Government exercises excessive control over public services, warns Tories
Local authorities should be able to influence all the public services in their areas, the Conservatives’ health spokesperson said today. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

The RHP Companion to Foster Care
This second edition provides an excellent reference book on the many dimensions of foster care today. Its strengths lie in the diverse range of.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Dying Matters: A Workbook on caring for people with learning disabilities who are terminally ill (***New Review)
An excellent workbook that sets out to help professionals who work with people with learning difficulties through the difficult and often emotional.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Exhibition Review - Eight ways to change the world
I found this exhibition depressing, writes Mark Drinkwater. Eight gallery rooms of depressing photographs documented the appalling conditions of.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

I didn't get where I am today...
Niall Dickson is chief executive of the King's Fund and former social affairs editor at the BBC more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Room at the top
In the first of a three-part series based on the Improvement and Development Agency's new update for children's services, Show Me How I Matter, IDeA.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

What I would have done differently
Blair McPherson reflects on how speaking his mind has been both a negative and positive factor throughout his career more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Staff failing to deal with use by parents
Substance misuse among parents is the most common difficulty facing children's social workers, according to a new study. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Minister calls for new type of worker
A new type of professional is needed to tackle the causes of antisocial behaviour, Home Office minister Hazel Blears said last week. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Fund changes too late for next year
Changes to the Supporting People funding formula are unlikely to take effect in time for 2006-7, a government official has revealed. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Labour lord heralds
The reputation and status of the social work profession is in the process of being transformed in the same way as those of the teaching profession, a.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

After hospital, where next?
A new study suggests that intermediate care is being underused by some hospitals when discharging older people. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Mental health help lacking in London
Only half of London's mental health trusts provide services specifically for asylum seekers and refugees, according to a new report. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Social care chiefs head up taskforce
Leading figures from the voluntary sector, social care and health have been appointed to a taskforce looking at helping charities win more contracts.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Deportations to Zimbabwe halted
The government has suspended deportations of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe after a ruling that the policy put them at risk. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Cafcass to impose tough new practice standards on guardians
Family court practitioners may have to radically change their working practices under proposals to improve efficiency and focus on "early and.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

The Big Question
Is our benefits system "crackers"? more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Shrinking front line 'at heart of failings'
Child protection failings highlighted by last week's report into abuse on the Western Isles have been caused by dwindling front-line expertise,.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

'Care managers break promises'
Commissioning staff and care managers are failing to ensure that children receive services or support when it is needed, new research claims. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Border raid
The number of primary care trusts is to be halved in a bid to improve relationships and service borders with local authorities. but cost-cutting was.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Frontlines - Exclusion of disruptive pupils
One of our team of practitioner columnists gives her take on the exclusion of disruptive pupils more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Financial problems blight Scots care
Scotland's foster carers are overburdened, struggling financially and are prevented from accessing training, a major review has found. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Children in hiding as mother deported
In a case thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, three children - one of them three years old - are in hiding in Britain after their mother.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Welsh review may dwarf Gershon's
A review of public services in Wales is likely to have major implications for the organisation and delivery of health and social services, a senior.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Shared boundaries to be broken up by health service restructuring
Coterminous relationships between councils and primary care trusts look set to be broken up in north east and south west England and Essex. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Councils urged to replace specialist services with a universal approach
Local government must move away from providing specialist care services and return to its universalist roots, according to a leading social services.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Bill boosts maternity and paternity payments
Working parents were given a boost yesterday in the shape of increased maternity and paternity leave under measures announced in the Work and.... more
(20 October 2005 13:31)

Directors fear for learning difficulty services as NHS spending fails to rise
Learning difficulties services could cost local authorities an extra £800m a year within the next five years if the government does not increase.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Charities to treat users as customers
A project to encourage the voluntary sector to treat service users as customers has been launched by homelessness charities. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

If you ask me...
Laura Baker, aged 18, cares for her physically disabled mother and attends Northumberland Young Carers more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Byrne may rejig legal framework
The government is considering revising the legal framework for joint-working between health and social care in the forthcoming white paper. more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Obstacle course
What are the barriers still preventing effective joint-working between health and social care and how deep-rooted are they? more
(20 October 2005 00:00)

Mind furious as lords back hospital's right to set its own seclusion policy
Campaigners have condemned a law lords judgement allowing a secure hospital to depart from statutory guidance and set its own policy on the seclusion.... more
(20 October 2005 00:00)