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What a difference a week makes. Only last week David Cameron chose a youth centre in his leafy constituency of Banbury to set out his stance on looters a rioters and England's major city.

One assumes he chose the local youth centre to highlight just the kind of services which he thought could make a real difference.

But today youth workers in his own constituency are striking budget over cuts, which the union Unite argue will result in 80 job losses, the Independent reports.

You'd have to be naive in the extreme to claim that those cuts at a local level are not connected to those made at a national level by Cameron. It'll be interesting to see if Cameron, as the local MP, will make any effort to intervene.

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"Social work has constructed an edifice of anti-oppressive practice sometimes decorated with the inanities of political correctness that hampers its position to mediate and negotiate a pathway that re-engages individuals with their society. By a misplaced refusal to judge behaviours and actions, or to remove services, in common language 'to punish', those who traverse, often at great cost to others, the rules of engagement with that society. What the riots indicate for social work is that personal behaviour and actions are not to be equally valued if a society is to function and serve its members appropriately. Perhaps for too long social workers have been content to stand outside of the policies and workings of society when it suits, whilst still being employed, in the main, by local government."

This week is National Care Leavers' Week.

Organisations such as the Care Leavers' Association, Voice and the National Care Advisory Service are hoping to raise awareness of the issues (still) facing young people as they leave care - like finding suitable accomodation, beginning employment/training/further education and receiving continued emotional support.