Sunday 17 July

By Simeon Brody

New report slams NHS managers for
“hazardous” maternity care
 
Britain’s maternity wards are not as good or safe as they
should be, according to a report by the Healthcare
Commission.

The report reveals poor leadership on the wards, doctors who do not
explain what is happening, dirty toilets and an acute shortage of
midwives.
 
Source:- The Observer Sunday 17 July 2005 page 3

Teens to earn credit for good behaviour
 
Teenagers will earn cash credits for good behaviour to be spent on
sport or shopping, as part of the shake up of youth services.

The move reflects a determination to use “carrots as well as
sticks” in the war against teenage delinquency.
 
Source:- The Observer Sunday 17 July 2005 page 7

Fraudsters loot £2.6m in bogus lottery
grants
 
Fraudsters managed to get their hands on at least £2.6m of
lottery money for fictitious charity initiatives.

The fraud apparently involved “multiple applications”
to the Awards for All scheme but also targeted a number of
charities and possibly tax-funded government grant schemes. Police
said 19 men and one woman had been arrested.
 
Source:- The Observer Sunday 17 July 2005 page 9

Councils must sell land for homes
 
Ministers will announce plans to force local authorities to release
thousands of protected sites, including greenfield land so
developers can build homes. Councils would have to increase the
supply of land for building whenever property prices started
rising.
 
Source:- The Sunday Times Sunday 17 July 2005 page 5

Alcohol fuels rise in violent crime
 
Figures are likely to show a rise of 7 per cent in violent crime
last year, with an increase of more than 50 per cent is some areas.
Some senior police officers said the figures for violent crime were
inflated by a rise in alcohol-related “thuggery”.
 
Source:- The Sunday Times Sunday 17 July 2005 page 7

Doctors’ surgeries to offer jobs
help
 
Doctors are to allow government advisers into their surgeries in
seven pilot schemes around the country in an attempt to push the
long-term sick back to work. Doctors seeing patients with long-term
conditions such as depression or backache would be able to offer
the extra service, which would not be compulsory.
 
Source:- The Sunday Times Sunday 17 July 2005 page 8

Abortion lobby in campaign to expose pro-life
doctors
 
Abortion groups are launching a campaign to name doctors who refuse
to help women seeking terminations.
 
Source:- The Sunday Times Sunday 17 July 2005 page
21

“Pupils should help pick their own
teachers”
 
Children should be involved in the selection of teachers, head
teachers and doctors, according to children’s commissioner Al
Aynsley-Green.
 
Source:- The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 17 July 2005 page
9 

Ofsted backs drug lessons for
seven-year-olds
 
Children as young as seven are taking lessons on the dangers posed
by drugs to combat the risk of them copying celebrity lifestyles,
the chief schools inspector has said.
 
Source:- The Independent on Sunday Sunday 17 July 2005
page 19

Labour’s family planning clinics for children of
12
 
The government is to set up sex clinics offering contraception to
children as young as 12.
 
Source:- The Mail on Sunday Sunday 17 July 2005 page
49

“Pupils should help pick their own
teachers”
 
Children should be involved in the selection of teachers, head
teachers and doctors, according to children’s commissioner Al
Aynsley-Green.
 
Source:- The Sunday Telegraph Sunday 17 July 2005 page
9 

Ofsted backs drug lessons for
seven-year-olds
 
Children as young as seven are taking lessons on the dangers posed
by drugs to combat the risk of them copying celebrity lifestyles,
the chief schools inspector has said.
 
Source:- The Independent on Sunday Sunday 17 July 2005
page 19

Labour’s family planning clinics for children of
12
 
The government is to set up sex clinics offering contraception to
children as young as 12.
 
Source:- The Mail on Sunday Sunday 17 July 2005 page
49