News round-up: Man claims child abuse in Guernsey

March 5, 2008 in Community Care

Man claims child abuse in Guernsey

The child abuse investigation that has engulfed Jersey threatened to spill over into a second Channel Island yesterday after a man claimed that he had suffered abuse at two children’s homes in Guernsey.

Nurse Colin Norris must serve at least 30 years
A judge described a staff nurse who murdered four elderly patients and tried to kill another as a thoroughly evil man, as he jailed him yesterday for at least 30 years.

New powers for police to shut rowdy venues and cut drink-related crime
New powers will let police and local authorities withdraw licences to create ‘alcohol-free zones’ in city-centre problem areas

Livingstone’s race adviser quits after email leak
Lee Jasper, the mayor of London’s controversial and beleaguered race adviser, resigned last night following months of allegations of impropriety and cronyism.

Blears wants police, NHS and councils more locally accountable
New proposals to make police, primary care trusts, and councils accountable to neighbourhood communities

Ministers put extra effort into Sure Start
Government to revamp its multibillion-pound programme after research revealed it is making only ‘modest’ improvements to children’s lives

Drug cartels running rampant, says UN
Government to revamp its multibillion-pound programme after research revealed it is making only ‘modest’ improvements to children’s lives

From social care to stardom
Documentary about a UK punk band, some of whose members have learning disabilities, to premiere next week in Austin, Texas

£100m of youth grants but poverty target is missed
Charity helping children in inner-city areas will be saved from closure with announcement of £100m injection of funding for youth groups

Cause for alarm
Steve Douglas controversially forced the closure of the UK’s biggest black-run housing association.

A noble vision
Can the government’s Independent Living Strategy deliver?

Read more on this story in Society Guardian today

All fired up
Innovators who faced a nerve-racking encounter with a panel of ‘dragons’ to win funding for their project ideas are in the forefront of an enterprising change in the delivery of social care

Coded message
Ambitious plans to transform social care will come to nothing unless people are told how to negotiate the maze of care on offer

‘Bribe’ for foreign prisoners to return home triples to £3,000
A “bribe” to persuade foreign prisoners to leave Britain has been more than tripled to £3,000 per offender by the Government as part of its drive to tackle prison overcrowding.

Celebrity drug abusers ‘treated softly by police’
Lenient treatment of drug-abusing celebrities is sending a damaging message to impressionable young people, the United Nations drug control agency has warned.

Dozens of missing schoolchildren feared forced into arranged marriages
Dozens of children are missing from school amid fears they have been forced into arranged marriages, it was revealed yesterday.

‘Graves’ discovered at Jersey children’s home could be drama set from TV’s Bergerac
I was abused at two Guernsey homes as well as Jersey ‘Colditz’, claims former resident