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We love a salacious story here at Community Care, so I'm a little disappointed this one slipped below the radar last week.

Kirsty Green, a care worker in Bristol, was jailed for nine months having stolen £46,000 from an elderly woman to buy sex toys so she could start another career as an Anne Summers party hostess.

Now, as much as we love to bring you a bit of smut on a Tuesday morning, I am rather irked at the reporting of this story.

Both the Daily Mail and the Mirror describe Green as a carer. This is not true, she was a care worker and those two things are very different. One is a job another is something you do, sacrificing your time, with little reward for your own reasons.

It's endemic of the confusion about the role of carers in society, and their low status, that they are confused with professional careers like this so readily. They don't even have their own status in the public mindset. I would not hold up Green as a model of professionalism given this conviction though.

A man who spat on a social worker in court has been jailed for 18 months, the Paisley Daily Express reports.

The homeless man, who was determined to be locked-up, spat at a social worker and police officer when he was set free at an earlier court hearing. He then said "I'm hepatitis C," which meant the social worker had to go and get checked out in hospital for the disease.

He is still awaiting the results of tests.

Jason Owen, the lodger at Peter Connelly's home who was jailed following the child's death, has won his appeal against his indeterminate sentence, according to the BBC.

More on this story to come on the Community Care website.

 By Derren Hayes

The huge rise in knife crime announced today http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7844455.stm should come as little surprise.

by Anabel Unity Sale

Three drunk women, aged 37, 39 and 41, were filmed on CCTV mugging a man, also drunk, of his wallet. He was punched and kicked by one of the women before the other two stole from him.

by Natalie Valios
Prisoners prefer to be behind bars where drugs are cheaper, where they get satellite TV, free telephone calls, breakfast in bed and officers who treat them with kid gloves for fear of breaching their human rights. So says Glyn Travis, assistant general secretary of the Prison Officers’ Association.

by Mike McNabb

So now we know: breaching an Asbo really can damage your freedom.
But for homeless former chef Anthony Delaney, who lived and showered at Gatwick airport for three years, this outcome is at least a guarantee of a roof over his head.