Kid porn monster is caged

Kid porn monster is caged
The former leader of a pro-paedophile campaign group was warned he may die in jail yesterday, after being imprisoned indefinitely for child porn offences at Leicester Crown Court.

David Joy was once a governing member of the Paedophile Information Exchange, which campaigned for sex with children to be legalised.

Source:- The Sun Tuesday 14 August 2007 page 2

Brown’s bonanza: where it will all go
The government has pledged over £4.5bn for children’s services since Gordon Brown took office, with £4bn for early years and childcare and over £500m for schools, including extended provision.

Source:- The Guardian Tuesday 14 August 2007 page 6

It’s porridge…again
Porridge is back on the menu at one of the country’s biggest prisons after being replaced by breakfast packs containing cereal and jam. Inmates at Pentonville jail are able to spend their own money to buy porridge oats after a report said that prepared packs were unpopular.

Source-: The Times, Tuesday 14 August 2007, page 4
 
Alcohol abuse undoing gains from curbs on smoking
Alcohol-related illness is eclipsing the health gains made by reduced smoking rates, especially in the poorest areas of England, researchers say.

Source-: The Times, Tuesday 14 August 2007, page 18
 
Blunders allowed dangerous criminal to murder remain secret
A series of blunders that led to a convicted knifeman killing a Cornish cleaning lady will remain secret to protect the identity of the probation officer who failed to ensure that he was properly supervised.

Source-: The Times, Tuesday 14 August 2007, page 23

Scottish news

Activists slam planners after winning care home fight
Campaigners who won a fight to block a nursing home extension have hit out at planners for recommending it in the first place.

Councillors unanimously threw out the plans despite officials recommending the go-ahead for the extension at the Ashley Court home in Craighouse Terrace, Morningside.

Neighbours said it would spoil the upmarket Edwardian area, where house prices average nearly £400,000.

Source: The Scotsman, Tuesday 14 August

Call for Capital mental-health crisis centre in the rise
A crisis centre set up to help people with mental health issues is experiencing a rise in people using the service.

The Edinburgh Crisis Centre – a 24-hour-a-day telephone support service – offers both phone advice and face-to-face appointments for people aged 18 and over.

Funded by the council, NHS Lothian and a variety of other agencies, the centre also hopes in future to provide safe accommodation for up to seven nights.

Source: The Scotsman, Tuesday 14 August

Welsh news

Social workers alter methods after child death
Social workers in Swansea are to change their practices after they were criticised in the case of a baby battered to death despite concerns being raised beforehand.

The professionals are to become less office based and a policy of offering office appointments to parents about whom concerns have been raised will be scrapped.

A report earlier this year into the death of 13-month-old Aaron Gilbert found that social workers failed to adequately look in to allegations that he was being abused.

Source:- Western Mail, Tuesday, August 14 2007