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• Review: What happened next: they steal children don't they?

  By Keith Sellick When I as a lad my dad used phrases like Romany, diddicoy and tinker to describe three different types of people, now the terms would be seen as being pejorative and we would use Roma, gypsies or travellers. What Happened Next brought... Posted Jul 10 2008, 10:49 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, Gypsies, Man Alive, travellers, What Happened Next

• Scandinavia: social care Nirvana no more?

  By Keith Sellick Social care writers often portray Scandinavia as some sort of Nirvana (or maybe Asgard or Valhalla). A month doesn't go by without an article appearing that ends with the sentiment: "They do it better in Sweden/Denmark"... Posted Jul 03 2008, 11:45 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, Politics, social care, welfare cuts, Sweden, Denamrk, pedagogues

• Inflation: does it depend on your class?

  By Keith Sellick Yesterday the Daily Telegraph led with "Double blow for middle class families" pointing to rising household bills and the Chancellor's call for pay restraint. It said that inflation for the middle classes was running at... Posted Jun 24 2008, 12:20 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, Politics, strike, public sector pay, inflation

• Birmingham: my kind of town

  By Keith Sellick I had to share this with you Telly Savalas does a travelogue for Birmingham . I have been laughing at it for days. The idea of Kojak on the mean streets of Britain's second city. Apparently he also did Portsmouth and Aberdeen Read... Posted May 01 2008, 04:19 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, birmingham, humour, Telly Savalas

• Mayday: time to defeat Boris Johnson

  By Keith Sellick Mayday: a workers' celebration. Some very fine articles here on the history and meaning of 1 May. Read More... Posted May 01 2008, 11:27 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, Politics, boris johnson, May Day, Mayday, Internationale

• Pressganged: Sunday Express and banning hoodies

  by Keith Sellick Fresh from its £ 500,000 payout to the McCann family , the Sunday Express has launched a "Ban the hoodie" campaign. Read More... Posted Apr 01 2008, 02:04 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, Media, Jack Fawbert, sunday express, hoodies, folk devils and moral panics

• Care services minister Ivan Lewis in tax the rich shock

  By Keith Sellick "Fairness means a Labour government not remaining silent when any company rips the consumer off or directors of poorly performing organisations in the public or private sector receive extortionate bonuses," says Ivan Lewis in... Posted Apr 01 2008, 01:55 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, Politics, ivan lewis, tax the rich, New Labour

• Care Service Minister Ivan Lewis in tax the rich shock

  By Keith Sellick "Fairness means a Labour government not remaining silent when any company rips the consumer off or directors of poorly performing organisations in the public or private sector receive extortionate bonuses," says Ivan Lewis in... Posted Apr 01 2008, 01:55 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, Politics, ivan lewis, tax the rich, New Labour

• Media and high profile children's stories

  by Keith Sellick Following on from yesterday's court case involving the McCanns, here are some interesting articles on media coverage of the Shannon Matthews, Scarlett Keeling and Madeleine McCann cases. Read More... Posted Mar 20 2008, 01:18 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: Scarlett Keeling, keith sellick, Shannon Matthews, Media, Madeleine McCann

• McCanns win damages against Express group

  by Keith Sellick A huge payout for the McCanns from the Express group for articles "suggesting they were responsible for their daughter's death." Read More... Posted Mar 18 2008, 11:45 AM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, Media, Max Clifford, Express, McCanns

• I want to be a citizen not a subject

  by Keith Sellick So now we have citizen ceremonies for 16-year-olds in which Lord Goldsmith (former attorney general) proposes that on leaving education young people should go through a rite of passage by swearing allegiance to the monarch. This is in... Posted Mar 12 2008, 02:48 PM by The Social Work Blog Filed under: keith sellick, children and young people, Lord Goldsmith, young people, history, citizenship, Bolsheviks