Children's Society
chair Bob Reitemeier was on Radio 4 this morning discussing the interim report
of the Social Work Taskforce, of which he is deputy chair.
Continue reading Taskforce's Reitemeier explains interim findings.
July 2009 Archives
You may remember PY Gerbeau: professional Frenchman, committed Anglophile, the former EuroDisney chief who saved the Millennium Dome.
Continue reading A French view of British binge drinkers.
Funny how social workers are suddenly flavour of the month now that the UK faces a swine flu epidemic.
Continue reading Social workers to the rescue, armed only with Tamiflu.
It would have made a formidable double act: Dame Joan Bakewell and Sir Michael Parkinson marching on Downing Street to protest about cuts in the number of sheltered housing wardens.
Continue reading Dame Joan Bakewell joins protest, but where's Parky?.
There has been an interesting development on asylum policy in the United States with Barack Obama's administration now allowing permits for women who are victims of domestic violence.
Continue reading Obama broadens asylum policy and Boris is caught out.
The controversy over the children's authors who will have to prove that they are not paedophiles (if it is possible to prove you are not something) before being allowed into schools has convinced me that the UK is on one big child protection guilt trip.
Continue reading Vetting and Barring Scheme shows UK on a guilt trip.
Dammit. We mention the words Tory and epiphany in the same sentence and up pop former leader Iain Duncan Smith and shadow home secretary Chris Grayling to discredit the mega-brainpower of the Outside Left policy unit.
Continue reading Marriage: It's that £20 question.
It was another Tory epiphany moment. Nearly 30 years after Margaret Thatcher's flagship social engineering policy - the sale of council properties - the party has tacitly admitted that local authority-run housing was probably not a bad idea after all.
Continue reading Another Tory epiphany moment: this time it's housing.
Social workers and care staff are more than familiar with the vagaries of the Criminal Records Bureau.
Continue reading When the Criminal Records Bureau lets us all down.
The braindead who voted for the British National Party in last month's European and local elections will appreciate their leader's latest wisdom on dealing with those African boat people whose vessels are caught crossing the Mediterranean.
Continue reading BNP goes back to its roots.
There has long been a feeling that care homes - a view not necessarily shared by the providers themselves - should welcome pets owned by residents.
Continue reading Pets in care homes? It could happen.
Until last night I was unaware of an alarming statistic: the number of cricketers who take their own lives is 75% higher than the rest of the population.
Continue reading Why do so many cricketers commit suicide?.
Is the media starting to change its mind about social workers?
Continue reading BBC's The One Show stands up for social workers.
A ruling from the House of Lords has widened the legal definition of disability.
Continue reading House of Lords widens definition of disability.
There is no doubt that some people are doing very well in what for many are cash-strapped times: namely those on well-paid jobs whose mortgage costs have dipped even quicker than the economy.
Continue reading Poor miss out as living costs appear to fall.
I would never have imagined bracketing the people who drive mobility scooters with Lewis Hamilton.
Continue reading EU puts mobility scooters in the fast lane.
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