Wednesday 17 August 2005

August 17, 2005 in Community Care

By Simeon Brody, Maria Ahmed, Derren Hayes and Amy
Taylor

Lottery will fund school DVD on gypsies

Hampshire education authority has received a £48,000 lottery
grant to fund a project aimed at giving schoolchildren a greater
understanding of gypsy and traveller culture and lifestyle.

Source:- The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Blunkett ditches idea of citizen’s pensions for
all

The idea of offering an enhanced “citizen’s
pension” to everyone has been abandoned by David Blunkett,
who fears it will bring an influx of pensioners from other EU
countries.

Source:- The Daily Telegraph Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Property website “divides society”

Websites offering information on neighbourhoods could increase the
divide between the richest and poorest places in Britain by guiding
people to areas with the best schools and lowest crime rates,
according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Source:- The Independent Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Woolf: We should jail fewer villains

The retiring Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf says more use should be
made of alternative punishments and prison should only be used to
punish the most serious crimes or in cases where there is a genuine
need to protect the public.

Source:- Daily Mail Wednesday 17 August 2005 page 2

Ten Pound Poms (part II)

Australia wants to poach 20,000 British key workers to solve a
crippling labour shortage.

There are fears the scheme will deepen the crisis for the NHS and
other British services already struggling with staff
shortages.

Source:- Daily Mail Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Choose the sex of your baby

Parents may be allowed to choose the sex of their baby under
radical new proposals announced yesterday.

The government is considering letting people choose whether to have
a boy or a girl if they feel their family needs
“balancing.” A public consultation on the Human
Fertilisation and Embryology Act also includes proposals to give
lesbians and single mums the same rights as couples by scrapping
the need for a father.

Source:- Daily Mirror Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Gun row job fight

A sacked teacher jailed for firing an air pistol during a family
stand-off with teenagers is claiming unfair dismissal.

Linda Walker, 48, was fired by Manchester school chiefs for gross
misconduct.

Source:- Daily Mirror Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Race attacker jailed

A racist teenager from Oldham, Manchester was branded a
‘wolf’ by a judge yesterday for attacking three Asian
children.

He was sentenced to 12 months behind bars for beating 11-year-olds
Raza Ali and Aadil Nabil and kicking their cousin Raza Shan, 14,
unconscious.

Source:- Daily Mirror Wednesday 17 August 2005, page
20

Man jailed for sex with 14-year-old

A man was jailed for 18 months yesterday after his pregnant
fiancée found out he was having sex with a schoolgirl he met
in an internet chatroom.

Shaun Jerome, 22, was also banned from working with children for 10
years, Cardiff crown court heard.

Source:- Daily Mirror Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Police ‘failing to enforce drink laws’

Ministers have been privately frustrated by police failures to
enforce existing laws to tackle Britain’s growing binge
drinking problem, according to internal Whitehall documents.

Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Fathers greater role in childcare

There was a time when it was unheard of for a man to change a
nappy or bathe his baby, but modern fathers are more involved in
parenting than ever before and are now responsible for third of all
the childcare in the home, according to a survey by Baby Einstein,
a company that promotes “discovery through play” for
the under-threes.

Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Two held after teenager killed

Two men were held yesterday over the murder of Rebecca Stephenson,
19, a prostitute whose body was found near Doncaster, south
Yorkshire, where she worked.

Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Asian men targeted in stop and search

The use of counter-terrorism stop and search powers has increased
up 15-fold since the July 7 attacks on Britain, with Asian people
bearing the brunt of the increase.

Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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When love is not enough

Should social workers be allowed to take children into care simply
because their parents have low IQs? It’s rarely that
straightforward.

Source:- The Guardian G2 Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Taking liberty

The C-Far centre for adolescent rehabilitation, a pioneering scheme
that helped Jason Hancock escape from a cycle of re-offending has
had to close after its funding was withdrawn.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Partners in crime

For decades, the law forced Ron Strank and Roger Fisher to keep
their relationship hidden. Now they advise police recruits on
diversity.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 17 August 2005 pages
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Sporting chance

The New Avenues youth project in west London takes a very local
approach to the problem of giving direction to youths heading for
trouble

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Making the grade

Helping healthcare assistants to gain higher qualifications could
alleviate the serious shortage of nurses in Britain, but lack of
funding means many can’t afford to retrain.

Source:- Society Guardian Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Housing solution

Local council will able to seize privately owned homes that have
been empty for six months and rent them out for seven years,
Baroness Andrews, the housing minister has said.

Source:- The Times Wednesday 17 August 2005 page 8

Gypsy awareness

A project to help children to obtain a better understanding of
Gypsy and traveller culture has received a £50,000 grant from
Heritage Lottery Fund.

A learning pack will be sent to schools in Hampshire during the
scheme, run by the council, that aims to help raise esteem among
Gypsy children.

Source:- The Times Wednesday 17 August 2005 page
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Scottish news

Youth workers spared trial over walk into gorge during storms

Two youth leaders, accused of endangering the lives of
nine children on a trip to a gorge in north Perthshire last summer,
are to escape prosecution.

The Crown Office confirmed it was dropping charges against Dundee
Council employees Kirsty Taylor and Fraser Ogilvie.

They were originally charged with culpably and recklessly taking a
group of nine children, aged between 10 and 13, to a 300ft deep
gorge.

Source:- The Scotsman Wednesday 17 August

Edinburgh’s £2m heroin crisis

A growing heroin problem in the Edinburgh has forced health chiefs
to increase methadone prescriptions by almost £2
million.

Official statistics show the number of addicts being prescribed the
drug rose from 2,191 in 2002 to 3104 last year.

That amounts to a 42 per cent increase, compared to a rise of 17
per cent across Scotland as a whole.

Source:- The Scotsman Wednesday 17 August

Welsh news

‘People may start using websites to find neighbours more like
themselves’

Websites designed to help house hunters find their perfect
neighbourhood could lead to an increased divide between rich and
poor communities a charity has warned.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that people could use the sites
to find less diverse communities where their neighbours would be
similar to them.

It claims that this had potential implications for disadvantaged
neighbourhoods.

Source:- Western Mail Wednesday 17 August

Why we’re too tired to volunteer for anything other
than a night of telly

Long working hours and stressful careers are forcing people to use
their free time to unwind a leading psychologist said last
night.

The Great British Time Survey shows that Welsh people spend their
time watching television, shopping or reading the newspapers rather
than volunteering or doing charity work.

Professor Carey Cooper, an expert in organisational psychology at
Lancaster University, said that people were choosing these
activities due to needing to unwind.

Source:- Western Mail Wednesday 17 August