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It was only a matter of time before the burka debate spread
across La Manche. And so at the weekend UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence
Party, seized its chance. Read More...
It is 22 years since that dismal piece of legislation, Section 28 , was passed by a Conservative government to ban the "promotion" -
whatever that was - of homosexuality in schools. Read More...
A little more is emerging about David Cameron's commitment
to reducing social inequality, should his Conservative Party be elected to
power this year. Yet his proposals, spelled out to the independent think tank Demos yesterday, seem incompatible...
On the day that think-tank Compass urged the setting up of a high pay commission , another organisation published an audit of the UK's low earners. And guess what? Social workers
were among them. Read More...
The appalling statistics about pensioner poverty and the
number of children living in overcrowded housing were timely. Read More...
First, the good news: sex education is to be made compulsory
in all state schools in England, reports The Guardian . 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...
One of the most hypocrital platitudes I can think of -
apart from "with respect", which is so often the trigger for a tirade
of disrespect - is "he means well". Read More...
Age Concern's bold attempt to end compulsory retirement at
65 for the UK workforce was always going to be fought from the back foot. Read More...
So she bottled it. Hours after details of her speech to the
TUC yesterday appeared in the national press, Labour's deputy leader, Harriet
Harman, avoided using the c-word that was long ago excised from her party's lexicon. Read More...
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...
You have to hand it to them; the Tories are in rampant mood as they make inroads into traditional Labour territory. Whether it concerns the emergence of an underclass (credit, Iain Duncan Smith ), families and inequality (credit, Michael Gove ) and our...
By Mike McNabb For the first time, a full Anglican wedding ceremony has been
held for a gay couple. That both partners were clergymen added extra
poignancy. Read More...