Will charities be major public service providers?

Will charities be major public service providers?
Ed Miliband, ‘Brownite’ third sector minister, insists that the idea of charities being public service providers has been overplayed.
Source:- Society Guardian, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 1

Mental health services fail to act
A damning report has exposed how police and health services repeatedly failed to act on pleas for action from a vulnerable single mother and her family, leading to her tragic killing.
Source:- Society Guardian, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 3

Half of us will sell homes to fund care
Half of those nearing retirement will be forced to sell their homes to pay for
nursing care bills, says a study.
Source:- Daily Mail, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 1

Author’s family say abuse memoir is cruel hoax
Doubt has been cast on the ‘childhood hell’ in a Catholic institution recalled by Irish writer Kathy O’Beirne in Kathy’s Story: a Childhood Hell in the Magdalene Laundries (published as Don’t Ever Tell in Britain).
Source:- The Times, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 16

Molly’s mother claims abuse
The mother of Molly Campbell, the 12-year-old at the centre of an international custody battle, claimed yesterday that she had been physically and mentally abused by her husband.
Source:- The Times, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 27

Majority of parents admit to smacking children
Seven out of ten parents smack their children and would strongly resist any move to ban corporal punishment in the home, according to a poll.
Source:- The Times, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 9

Refugee hanged himself to keep son at English school
An asylum-seeker killed himself just hours before he was to be deported so that his 13-year-old son could continue going to school in Britain.
Source:- The Times, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 14

Anger over emergency prison conversion
A disused army barracks is set to be converted, without consultation, into a 500-capacity prison, as the pressure on prison places grows more acute.
Source:- The Guardian, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 7

Companies’ role in NHS care to be set locally
An end to the era of big, centrally negotiated contracts between private health providers and the government appeared in site yesterday. Patients, primary care trusts and family doctors would decide the extent of private sector involvement in the NHS, according to Patricia Hewitt.
Source:- Financial Times, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 3

Dawn-to-dusk school day could hit exam results, say experts
Keeping children at school for 50 hours a week to help parents work full-time can affect exam results, a report revealed.
Source:- Daily Mail, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 2

Reid ready to curb new east European migrants
The government gave its strongest indication so far that immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania would have restrictions placed on them if the two countries join the European Union next year.
John Reid, the home secretary, said that immigration from the countries would have to be “carefully managed” in the future.
Source:- The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 20 September 2006, page 2

Scottish news

Waiting times for free care
An investigation by the Scottish health committee has revealed the huge variation in waiting times for free personal care faced by elderly people, ahead of a parliamentary debate on the issue.
Local authorities were sent a request for details under freedom of information legislation by the health committee earlier this year. The findings were reported in June, but the committee re-issued the request to secure responses from all the councils.
The results show some councils, including Glasgow, are still unable to report how long pensioners waited on average for free personal care in the past financial year.
Source-: The Herald, Wednesday 20 September 2006
 
Three million could face mental health problems
More than three million pensioners will suffer from mental health problems by 2021 unless action is taken to promote mental wellbeing in the ageing population, according to a report put before the Scottish Parliament.
The first report by the independent UK inquiry into mental health and wellbeing in later life found there were 2.4 million elderly people in the UK with depression severe enough to impact on their quality of life.
But it warned that, as the population ages, this figure is likely to expand to 3.1 million by 2021, around 300,000 of whom are likely to be in Scotland, unless steps are taken to improve mental wellbeing.
Source:- The Herald, Wednesday 20 September 2006

Half of deaf people have felt suicidal, survey finds
Deaf people are more likely to contemplate suicide than their hearing counterparts and have greater difficulty getting help with their problems.
Almost half of people interviewed by Deaf Connections, a Glasgow-based charity, in a survey said they had considered killing themselves. Isolation and communication problems as likely to contribute to depression among deaf people.
Problems were especially acute among those who had become deaf rather than being born with the condition, the charity said.
Source:- The Herald, Wednesday 20 September 2006

Welsh news

Monitoring of Cardiff social services for children to end
Cardiff social services for children are no longer of concern and regular three monthly monitoring it set to cease.
Health and social services minister Brian Gibbons will announce that the detailed monitoring by the Social Services Inspectorate for Wales will end. The procedure was put in place after Cardiff was said to be one of the worst-performing services in the UK four years ago.
Source:- Western Mail, Wednesday 20 September 2006

EC could obstruct £1.3bn Welsh development grant
Concerns have been raised that Wales’ second round of top-level European development funding not start on time.
A source close to the European Commission, which provides the funding, said that the commission could call for changes to the funding due to too much of the money being earmarked for relatively small community projects.
Source:- Western Mail, Wednesday 20 September 2006

 

 


 

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