If individual supervision is so run-of-the-mill in social care, why is it a grind? Practical tips from Christine Doorly, Sheena Doyle and Janet Seden will help you sort the wheat from the chaff.
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Delivering confidence
Liz Brooker describes the lessons from a successful project to support teenage parents in inner London.
Pledge to increase child care for disabled children
The government is exploring how to make it easier for parents of disabled young children to find the child care they need to enter employment.
Thursday 29 May 2003
Judge reports social workers to Social Services Inspectorate. Former minister calls for older people to be given tokens for meals and home helps.
Public services must value human rights
Two years of human rights legislation have had little impact on service provision.
Sure Start minister to boost child care for disabled children
The government is exploring how to make it easier for parents of disabled young children to find the child care they need to enter employment.
Special report on detention of child asylum seekers
While the poor conditions in Young Offenders’ Institutions often raises doubts over their suitability to hold young people, there are a group of children held in detention whose only crime is to flee persecution, torture or a war-torn country that are faced with strikingly similar conditions – the children of asylum seekers, writes Clare Jerrom.
Monday 19 May 2003
A man who killed his chronically ill older parents is freed by judge.
Charities applaud move to limit councils’ use of B&B accommodation
The government has confirmed plans to impose a legal duty on councils to find families in bed and breakfast accommodation a permanent home within six weeks.
Take-up campaign targets families
A campaign to reduce child poverty by providing local authorities and their partners with guidance to ensure families at risk claim their benefits and tax credits has been launched by the Local Government Association.
Classroom control
Using schools in the evening sounds like an excellent idea. But local people should run the initiatives and clubs rather than let professionals replicate the ethos of daytime schools, writes Peter Beresford.
Crossover culture
Across the UK, health and social care professionals have been co-operating on innovative projects. We look at some examples where this joint approach has yielded spectacular results.
Debate on the performance of the National Care Standards Commission
We asked if inspections by the National Care Standards Commission have helped to raise service standards, and whether people have any examples of how the commission's work has had a positive or a negative effect.
news analysis of battle councils face to keep foster carers
Some local authorities are struggling to compete with the independent sector for foster carers. Derren Hayes finds out what might help councils to retain their carers.
Will they ever learn?
Sarah Wellard explores how helping parents support their children’s learning is also enabling them to tackle their own literacy problems.
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‘Dear Sajid Javid: please end the inappropriate detention of autistic people and those with learning disabilities’
Ofsted calls for power to scrutinise children’s home groups
Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’
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