Wednesday 22 September 2004

By Shirley Kumar, Clare Jerrom and Alex Dobson

Tories call for immigrant quota

Conservative leader Michael Howard has accused the government of
losing control over immigration.

The Tories said they would introduce strict annual quotas on the
number of immigrants to Britain complete with a points system to
control the type of migrants.

Source:- The Independent Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
16

Childcare workers jailed for sex abuse

Two former childcare workers were jailed yesterday for sexually
abusing children in their care in Northern Ireland.

Margaret Hewitt was jailed for 11 years and her former co-worker
George Anderson, received 18 years for offences spanning a quarter
of a century at the now demolished Barnardos home in Belfast.

Source:- The Independent Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
17

‘Battery-reared’ children miss out on
play

Outgoing director of the Children’s Play Council Tim
Gill has warned children are being battery reared in their bedrooms
and deprived of the freedom to play by worried parents and a lack
of public leisure facilities.

The council’s research shows the average child is not allowed
to stray further than 100 yards from their front door.

Source:- The Independent Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
18

£130m boost for affordable homes

Westminster Council is to sell Dolphin Square, one of the biggest
rented housing blocks in the country, for £20 million.

The council plans to put £130 million into a charity for
affordable housing vastly increasing the amount of low costs homes
it will be able to build.

Source:- The Financial Times Wednesday 22 September 2004
page 4

Ban on smacking ‘inevitable’ to protect
children

A ban on smacking is inevitable because of human rights
legislation, revealed the government’s joint committee on
human rights.

The committee said ministers would have to make changes because of
a drive by the European Court of Human Rights to protect
children.

Source:- The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 22 September 2004
page 9

The undying love

Judges at Maidstone Crown Court in Kent spared sending Kevin Clark
to jail after he handed his wife 38 paracetamol tablets to help her
die.

His wife suffered from Huntington’s disease.

Source:- The Daily Mail Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
31

The Enforcers

A gang of teenagers known as The Enforcers were named and shamed by
a judge in Portsmouth.

The five teenagers have been banned from all the secondary schools
in the city.

Source:- The Daily Mail Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
41

Homelessness sours in black and Asian communities

Homelessness within ethnic minority households has risen twice as
fast as among the population as a whole since Labour came to power,
according to the charity Shelter.

Homelessness increased by 77 per cent among ethnic minorities
compared to 34 per cent among the population as a whole.

Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
8

A passage from India

India has responded to chronic healthcare staff shortages in
Britain and the US by creating a booming export business in trained
nurses. Raekha Prasad in Delhi, talks to nurses preparing to join
the NHS, and the recruitment agents who are cashing in.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
2

No regrets

Death threats, physical assaults and verbal abuse…Peter
Tachell has had to put up with a lot during 40 years of campaigning
for social justice. But he has no intention of giving up now.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
6

Help is on hand

A charity providing schools with on-site counsellors is giving
young children strength to face their demons.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
7

Gangsta myth stripped

A frank semi-autobiographical comic book written by former members
of black gangs in Manchester is unlikely to win friends at the
Daily Mail.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
8

Gateway to equality

As Britain prepares for the final phase of the Disability
Discrimination Act to kick in, Tashin Shifrin sees how San
Francisco activists successfully exploited the law.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
10

Homing in, bottom up

David Satterthwaite reports on how slum dwellers and the homeless
are helping themselves to a better quality of life.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
13

Can we manage without them?

Business gurus command large fees and a wide constituency, from
heads of government departments to public sector administrators.
David Walker on why we should buy into the ideas of being
peddled.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
14

What else can I do?

Debbie Andalo offers Ricky, a youth offending team officer, some
useful advice in his search for a new career that will utilise his
experience in criminal justice.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 22 September 2004 page
120

All systems go for child protection

The number of databases that could warn of dangers to children is
mushrooming. But whether and how they will fit together is still
unclear.

Source:- Society Guardian epublic Wednesday 22 September
2004 page 3

Department in the dock on disabilities

The Department for Work and Pensions is accused of failing to meet
its duties on accessibility under the Disability Discrimination,
which it is itself sponsoring.

Source:- Society Guardian epublic Wednesday 22 September
2004 page 14

Scottish newspapers

Britain’s girls are becoming fat, lazy, hard
drinking, pot-smoking television addicts, according to the latest
edition of Pocket World in Figures.

According to the statistics collated from official sources in 192
countries, British girls are in top place for drinking alcohol and
are the third largest users of cannabis. The girls also watch more
television in a day and are the fourth fattest in the league.

But the figures found that boys aged 15 are apparently smoking less
cannabis than girls of a similar age and have a better record on
drinking alcohol. British boys are the third biggest drinkers in
the world after teenagers from Malta and the Netherlands.

Source:- The Scotsman  Wednesday 22 September

OAP homes vision for blaze hotel

A hotel devastated more than 10 years ago by a fire is to be
demolished to make way for sheltered housing.

Developers have unveiled a £6 million plan to bulldoze the
Bellevue Hotel in Dunbar, East Lothian and build more than 50 flats
for older people on the site.

Source:- Evening News  Tuesday 21 September

Welsh newspapers

MP urges Assembly opposition to unite against Labour
over NHS

Plaid Cymru should form a coalition with other Welsh assembly
opposition parties to help sort out the problems of the NHS in
Wales.
Adam Price, MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr says that the
assembly’s Labour government has made such a mess of the
health service that something needed to be done to deal with the
crisis.

Source:- Western Mail Wednesday 22 September page 2

Bus driver cleared over boy’s death

A jury yesterday cleared a bus driver of causing the death of a
teenage schoolboy who was hanging from the outside of his bus. Luke
Tanhai was asked to leave the bus because he did not have the fare
but apparently clung to the bus as it started on its journey,
before falling to his death.

Cardiff Bus who operated the service say that they want to look at
ways to safeguard the safety of children on their way to school.
The driver, Colin Haynes, said he was relieved at the verdict.

Source:- Western Mail Wednesday 22 September page 2