July 2009 - Posts
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. Read More...
You may remember PY Gerbeau : professional Frenchman, committed Anglophile, the former EuroDisney chief who saved the Millennium Dome. Read More...
Funny how social workers are suddenly flavour of the month
now that the UK faces a swine flu epidemic. Read More...
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 . Read More...
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. Read More...
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...
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. Read More...
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...
Social workers and care staff are more than familiar with
the vagaries of the Criminal Records Bureau. Read More...
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. Read...
There has long been a feeling that care homes - a view not necessarily shared by the providers themselves - should welcome
pets owned by residents. Read More...
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. Read More...
Is the media starting to change its mind about social
workers? Read More...
A ruling from the House of Lords has widened the legal
definition of disability. Read More...
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 quicker than the economy. Read More...
I would never have imagined bracketing the people who drive
mobility scooters with Lewis Hamilton . Read More...