In Today's Papers

By Amy Taylor, Clare Jerrom and Alex Dobson.
Sisters jailed for smuggling girls as sex slaves
A court heard yesterday how two sisters smuggled hundreds of Thai women into Britain, and forced them to work as sex slaves in a million-pound operation.
Bupba Savada and Monporn Hughes, both Thai nationals, were jailed at Southwark crown court yesterday for running a network of brothels in Wimbledon, Surbiton and Harrow.
Source:- The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 4 June page 11
'200,000 smuggled to UK by Godmother of the Snakeheads'

A Chinese woman was named by the police yesterday as being one of the most powerful 'Snakehead' leaders in western Europe, smuggling 20,000 people a year to Britain.
Jing Ping Chen, is believed to have planned the smuggling of 200,000 Chinese people into Britain via Holland.
She is currently facing trial in Rotterdam with seven male accomplices after being discovered by undercover Dutch police and immigration investigators.
Source:- The Daily Mail Wednesday 4 June page 10
EU snubs Blunkett's solution to asylum crisis
The immigration minister has announced that the government it to press ahead with plans to send asylum seekers to transit camps outside western Europe despite the EU Commission shelving the plans.
The commission said the plans needed more research, and suggested that the EU needed to 'share' the asylum burden, rather than 'shift' it on to other countries.
Hughes insisted that the plans had the 'broad support' of other member states.
Source:- The Daily Mail Wednesday 4 June page 10
Gays may be barred from church jobs
Church schools could soon be able to turn down gay people for teaching posts without facing prosecution under new guidelines.
The employment equality regulations, due to take effect in December, give religious organisations an exemption from rules barring discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
Source:- The Daily Mail Wednesday 4 June page 15
Mental illness  'costs more than crime or the NHS'
Treating and caring for mental health problems cost over £77 billion last year, which was higher than the annual cost of crime, according to a study from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
The research found the full social and economic costs of this condition were even greater than the £60 billion annual cost of crime, calculated by the home office on a similar basis.
Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 4 June page 9
Guardian Society
No hiding place
The government's tough line on  anti-social tenants has been embraced by some councils, but a new project is opting for support rather than expulsion to improve behaviour.
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 3
Victorious charities secure funds
Two charities have shown that the "compact" agreement between the government and the voluntary sector can work by successfully challenging breaches of its implementation.
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 4
Help fails to improve carers' plight
Less than one in three carers have had an assessment of their needs despite it being a central part of government measures to help carers.
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 4
Freeze a deed
Winning photographs in a competition celebrating Volunteers' Week show that anyone can take part, even dogs
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 5
In the frame
Dennis Morris ignored his careers adviser and is now a successful photographer who has been capturing social change spanning 30 years.
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 6
Returning the faith
Churches, mosques and synagogues help society in ways that councils do not or can not. Yet they are underused and receive little thanks.
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 10
Back from the brink
Profile Terry Charles-Mclean, disabled volunteer adviser
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 11
Joining force
Volunteers and social workers team up to support families with 'at risk' children
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 12
Out on a limb
A hospital trust in Sutton Coalfield will be the first to be managed by the private sector

Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 13
Are you ready?
All local authorities must be prepared for emergencies, says Richard Harbord. And there's only one way to do that: planning
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 13
Where the buck stops
Call for clear lines of accountability in child protection
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 131
The fact vacuum
Disabled population suffers due to out of date data
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 131
An open mind
Sarah Ebner meets the founder of a controversial support group for professionals with severe mental health problems
Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 4 June page 132
Scottish newspapers
Peterhead cells are hell for sex offenders
The Scottish prison service was accused yesterday of continuing to run down Peterhead jail as part of its policy to treat sex offenders like second class inmates by Scotland’s new prisons watchdog.
Dr Andrew McLellan, who was appointed to the post of Scotland’s Chief Inspector of Prisons last October, said he was shocked at the “dreadful and unacceptable” conditions under which the sex offenders at the north east prison were being forced to serve their sentences.
Source:- The Scotsman  Wednesday 4 June page 4
Nursery nurses’ pay talks deadlocked
Public sector union Unison and nursery nurses employers failed to come to an agreement over pay and conditions following talks yesterday.
Unison expressed disappointment that local authority employers were “apparently unable to address the central problem of low pay”.
Around 5,000 nursery nurses are involved in industrial action causing the closure or partial closure of hundreds of nurses across Scotland causing parents to make alternative arrangements for childcare.
Source:- The Scotsman  Wednesday 4 June
Social worker on heroin deals
A social worker dealt drugs to two women in his care and smoked heroin, the high court in Kilmarnock heard yesterday.
Eighteen-year-old Leigh McLean told a jury she was supplied with heroin by social worker Campbell Valentine.
McLean, who admitted having a £700-a-week drug habit before falling pregnant, claimed Valentine would visit her daily.
Valentine worked for East Ayrshire council and denies being concerned in the supply of heroin to two addicts between 1 November 2001 and 31 January, 2002.
The trial continues.
Source:- Daily Record  Wednesday 4 June
Welsh newspapers
Banned from working with children
A music teacher from south Wales has been banned from working with school children after being found guilty of trying to download child pornography from the internet.
Roddy Lewis will not be allowed to work with children in local government schools after being placed on the department of education and skills’ List 99.
List 99 is a confidential document that contains details of people who have been barred or restricted from working with children.
Source:- South Wales Argus Tuesday 3 June page 1
‘Naked resident cause of dispute’
A former care worker told an employment tribunal that he had challenged a council-run home’s policy of taking naked and semi naked residents into communal areas.
Neil Boyer claims he was unfairly dismissed from his job as a senior residential services officer at a resource centre in Abergavenny, and that the fears he expressed over the care of residents was not acted upon by senior management.
Monmouthshire council is contesting his claims.
Source:- South Wales Argus Tuesday 3 June page 5