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That's the trouble with the older people of today. They just
have no respeck. They sit idly around all day on park benches, swigging
Lucozade, talking about the war - loudly I might say - and waving their sticks
and pipes to emphasise some point they...
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...
Stressed? You might well be, because figures from the
Employers Organisation show social services departments to be riddled with the
condition. Read More...
So pleased was I to read an article headlined "Social
mobility on the rise" that I felt compelled to find out when it was last not
"on the rise". Read More...
Hospital admissions for serious conditions related to
alcohol have doubled in the past 10 years but a report reveals that a quarter
of primary care trusts have failed to fully assess misuse in their areas. Read More...
Yesterday's High Court decision in the Debbie Purdy case has
opened up fears of a flood of prosecutions against people who have helped
terminally ill relatives end their lives. Read More...
It's a familiar story: too many looked-after children moving
between carers; instability for vulnerable young people; and a shortage of
foster carers. Read More...
Of course it is laudable that the government wants to move one million people from benefits to employment by 2015. Of course there are people who
want to milk the system. Of course "something should be done". Read More...
Joseph Rowntree Foundation is doing an admirable job at
keeping child poverty on the social agenda. This week it released a report
showing the economic costs of allowing the UK's children to remain below the
poverty line. Read More...
Here's an immigration question that should confuse even the
worst "send 'em home" types. Read More...
One of Gordon Brown's most irritating soundbites is his
habitual homage to "hard-working British families". You wouldn't catch Peter
Mandelson trotting that one out. Read More...
For charities, there has never been a recession like the one
the UK is said to be heading into. Read More...
The Howard League for Penal Reform yesterday confirmed what
many have suspected for some time: that punishment alone is ineffective in the
fight against knife crime among young people. Read More...
Social workers have enough aggravation dealing with the
anger they can encounter during home visits, as Ray Braithwaite will expand on
at Community Care Live Children & Families this month, but some have to
bear the wrath of their clients' dangerous...
With all the excitement of global economic slumps and
derring-do rescues, it is easy to overlook the way we continue to treat the
most vulnerable. Read More...
Today could prove pivotal for British charities that have
invested in high-interest bank accounts in Iceland. Read More...
So you have some spare cash and you want to put some aside
for the proverbial rainy day. Do you invest it in a low-interest account or do
you stash it away in a high-interest one? Read More...
We have yet to reach that watershed for disability rights,
like the one the police had to face up to after their botched investigation
into the racist murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence . Read More...
We no longer have a shoe shop on every corner. We don't
even have a corner shop on every corner. But in most high streets you can be
sure of a betting shop on the corner. Read More...
Two news stories at the weekend encapsulated attitudes to
income inequality and the power of celebrity. 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...
The latest drug treatment data are published today and it
looks like the methods are failing. Read More...
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...
Wrong place, wrong time, wrong everything. The shadow home
secretary Dominic Grieve chose the backdrop of the Conservative Party
conference in multicultural Birmingham to have a go at, yes, multiculturalism. Read More...
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has been canvassing opinion
from key social commentators about what is concerning them about Britain. Read More...
An old practice of dealing inhumanely with rough sleepers
is creeping back on to our streets. 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...
Did anyone watch Coronation Street last night? More
specifically, did anyone watch the ad break during the 8.30pm episode? If you
did you would have noticed the NSPCC 's latest campaign. Read More...
Two prominent Labour MPs this week set out their visions for
a fairer Britain. Read More...
He avoided urging the faithful to go back to their
constituencies and prepare for government, as David Steel once did, but Lib
Dems leader Nick Clegg did tell the party conference yesterday: "I can tell you
where we're headed - government."...
Why are the UK authorities giving former Gurkhas such a hard
time? Read More...
When children's charities have a perspective on chid
protection that is poles apart from that held by the public at large, one is
minded to side with the former. Read More...
OK Gordon, so if I remember to seal the front door and don
an extra pullover, a pair of gloves and ear muffs, I should be able to cut my
fuel bill. 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...
Stand on your own two feet is a phrase that bears the
hallmark of Margaret Thatcher. But David Blunkett bought into the idea in a
speech to the Counsel and Care charity in London. Read More...
You know you've arrived as care services minister when your
name appears on the front page of a Sunday tabloid. Read More...
The Paralympics start this weekend in Beijing and hopes are
high that Team GB can continue its success of Athens four years ago,
particularly after their colleagues in the Olympics turned in such a gold-plated performance last month. No pressure, then...
On turning 50, I became in the failing eyes of policymakers an "older person" . Read More...
One thing we do know about the bids to help run two new
jails is that the consortia include a healthy representation from the third
sector. Read More...
Anyone who thinks Labour is social care's best chance should
be worried by the recent less-than-inspiring efforts of chancellor Alistair Darling and home secretary Jacqui Smith . Read More...
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