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The unofficial pre-general election campaign got under way
this week with both Labour and the Conservatives targeting specific groups,
suggesting that social care could have a more visible presence over the months
ahead. Read More...
What a contrast in the reactions of this morning's
newspapers to the sentence handed down to paedophile nursery nurse Vanessa
George. Read More...
Could this really happen? There is a move to introduce a law
- or at least Whitehall has refused to rule one out, according the Daily
Telegraph - to ban parents from smoking in front of their children. Read More...
A book I have focuses on deprivation in Hackney in east
London. In a chapter entitled Schooling for Failure, the author discusses the
cramped conditions in which rather too many children live and the effect on their
development both at play and in study...
I have heard the expression
"killing with kindness" but in Italy a mother has appeared in court accused of maltreating her son by mollycoddling . Read More...
Action for Children's latest report shows a disturbing rise
in the number child neglect cases. Perhaps as many as 1.5 million children suffer a form of neglect - and in England last year nearly 17,000
children were registered on child protection plans...
The brilliant QC Michael Mansfield describes his job as
"defending the indefensible". This week Hollywood, politicians and literary
figures have been coming over all Michael Mansfield about film director and,
let us not forget, child sex offender...
Is the media starting to change its mind about social
workers? Read More...
That should stick it to the dyslexia deniers. An inquiry led
by former Ofsted inspector Sir Jim Rose has prompted the government to help
children who are held back at school because of the learning difficulty. Read More...
Fostering Fortnight has just ended but agencies fear that a
carers crisis is looming. Read More...
As Budget day nears, politicians and groups such as Age
Concern and Help the Aged are pressing chancellor Alistair Darling to address
the issues that they hold dear. Read More...
It's Maundy Thursday, when the Queen traditionally hands out alms to
some of Britain's poor. This year, 166 pensioners in Bury St Edmonds,
Suffolk , are the beneficiaries. Read More...
It has all the hallmarks of the Thalidomide scandal of the
1960s and 1970s. The morning sickness drug given to pregnant women caused them
to give birth to babies without arms and legs. Read More...
Prejudice against disabled people is seldom "up there" with
race and gender bias but the case of Cerrie Burnell shows that it should be. Read More...
Barely a month goes by without yet another pessimistic
statement on child poverty. Read More...
One subject that seems to stir more passion than most is the
rights and wrongs of smoking. Separate debates on Community Care's CareSpace
discussion forum and The Guardian's Joe Public website bear this out. Read More...
If the point of A Good Childhood was to maintain the profile
of The Children's Society and provide the charity with some positive publicity,
it worked. Read More...
The police do it. The street cleaners of Wimbledon do it.
Even some politicians do it. Now school pupils are doing it too. Read More...
It is unlikely to have been in the Christmas stockings of many people, but resolve next year to read John Heale's One Blood: Inside
Britain's New Street Gangs . Read More...
Just how many taboo subjects can there be? Death is the
obvious one for many. And there are others that I can't mention here
because they are, of course, taboo. But I was not aware that obesity was among
the genre. Read More...
For someone so critical of people who dismiss children as
feral, it was strange to read about Barnardo's boss Martin Narey using that
word himself in relation to the Baby P case. Read More...
Who said this in June? "I was disappointed that child
poverty rose last year. This is a sign we have to redouble our efforts." Read More...
Man cannot live by rice cubana alone, although many of us
get by on burger and fries alone (with large diet Coke) and expand our
waistlines accordingly. Now some of Europe's top footballers have teamed up to
tackle obesity among young people. Read...
Amid the mass hysteria that surrounds the latest crisis of
capitalism and the uncertain futures of the moneybags who run our western
economies, it is easy to forget that there is one group of people who do badly
in both boom and bust. Read More...
Tony Blair started it. We thought he was only
half-joking when in 2001 he proposed that drunken young men who engaged in
antisocial behaviour should be frogmarched to the nearest cash machine to atone
for their misdemeanours by way of an on-the-spot fine...
In social care circles, Scandinavia, particularly the
Swedish bit, is often cited as the holy grail for professional practice. Few
would dispute that social care is well funded and well run in the Nordic
countries. Read More...
Few will be welcoming the homecoming of child sex offender
Paul Gadd, alias former glam rock star Gary Glitter, should he decide not to
disembark at Bangkok on his flight from Vietnam to the UK today . Read More...
BBC journalist Kate Adie once described her style of
reporting as "telling it like it is". The maxim is not one recognised by the
Department of Health in its fight-the-flab campaign (my description, not the
DH's). Read More...