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• Vanessa George: The press cant make up their minds

  
  Outside Left — Authority: 120
  What a contrast in the reactions of this morningsnewspapers to the sentence handed down to paedophile nursery nurse VanessaGeorge. George, guilty of a series of sex offences at the LittleTeds Day Centre Unit in Plymouth, was given an indeterminate sentence aftershe refused to name the children she abused. ...
  8 hours ago

• Social policy in the noughties: 10 years of change and controversy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  At the fag end of a turbulent decade for public services, Guardian specialist writers assess the winners and losers Denis Campbell on public health The governments tough action against smoking will stand as one of its most valuable legacies. Determined and sometimes bold measures such as banning tobacco ...
  17 hours ago

• Will Australia’s Planned Internet Censorship Spread?

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 574
  Who would have thought that the land down under would be the first country (other than China, where we know things really aren’t quite right) that will force ISPs to filter out illegal content. Once you get past the sheer terror that should inflict, you must consider the enormity of the job, and ask who will be the ...
  21 hours ago

• George obsessed with fellow abuser

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Nursery school worker Vanessa George seemed prepared to do anything to please Colin Blanchard, sentencing hearing told Nursery school worker Vanessa George had become "obsessed" with fellow child abuser Colin Blanchard and took eight pictures a week of children in her care to please him, a court heard today. People ...
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• December 15 roundup

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 632
  “Truck drivers with positive drug tests should not file lawsuits … period.” [ Jon Hyman, Ohio Employers Law ] Tiger Woods hires a Hollywood law firm famous for its nastygrams to the press [ Bronstad, NLJ ; earlier on Lavely & Singer] “Mom Who Let Kids Play Outside Threatened by Cops” [Aliso Viejo, ...
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• Is smoking in front of children abuse?

  
  Outside Left — Authority: 120
  Could this really happen? There is a move to introduce a law- or at least Whitehall has refused to rule one out, according the DailyTelegraph - to ban parents from smoking in front of their children. Such a ban is already in force in some parts of the US and,even in the UK, fostering and adoption ...
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• Do we need a complete re-think of all anti-paedophile vetting procedures?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  Should the Government set out just how many people need to have their backgrounds checked?
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• Jobs in a Christian Childrens Organization

  
  MY AFRICAN CAREER — Authority: 159
  A Christian Children ‘s organization has vacancies for:-1. Social Worker & Education OfficerDutiesEnsure maintenance of accurate social records for clientsAdvice and follow up on children... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://myafricancareer.blogspot.com/ for Vacancies, Career Tips and Resume ...
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• Failing vulnerable children in care

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 138
  SMH: Girl living in care raped by five men . “Rose” is 12 years old. The magistrate said Rose (not her real name), who was under DHS care, was raped by five men on one day in October. Since then, she had ”absconded from the unit and was unaccounted for” seven times. A secure welfare order was finally made ...
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• Ed Balls vows U-turn on vetting scheme for adults working with children

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Minister says there has been ludicrous over-reaction that led to authors such as Philip Pullman cancelling school visits in protest Ed Balls today promised a U-turn on legislation designed to vet adults working with children, conceding there had been a "ludicrous over-reaction" that led to authors pulling out of ...
  2 days ago

• Family in Northern Ireland pay tribute to baby who died in assault

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The family of a baby girl from Northern Ireland who died from horrific injuries released a statement tonight saying they are heartbroken over the death. Police are treating Millie Martins death as murder with the killing raising questions about child protection in the western part of the Province. A spokesman for the ...
  2 days ago

• Let us hope we have not sunk to the level of mistreating children to deter asylum seekers | Henry Porter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  For a government that makes much of its record on protecting children from cruelty and abuse, it is extraordinary that the truth about Yarls Wood is that it damages terribly the children held there Looking back over history to episodes of the states heartlessness – to the era of slavery, for example, or the ...
  3 days ago

• U-turn over sex-crime vetting of school helpers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Government bows to public pressure and drops laws that would have forced parents to prove they are not paedophiles Laws forcing the 11 million people who help out in schools and nurseries to undergo criminal record checks to prove they are not paedophiles are to be dropped following a massive outcry. In a major ...
  3 days ago

• Ambulance called for child protection

  
  Imaginif Child Protection became Serious Business — Authority: 115
  Cars pulled off in an orderly direction to allow the ambulance safe thoroughfare. I watched as a seamless guard of honour happened while we all waited at our red light. The mobile lanes of traffic halted: Ambulance, with siren blasting and lights flashing made it through a very busy intersection within seconds. The ...
  4 days ago

• Pope to write about shameful abuse

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Benedict to promise concrete actions to prevent repeat of long-term abuse but victims demand visit and apology Pope Benedict XVI is "deeply disturbed and distressed" by a report detailing clerical sexual abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin and is writing to Irish Catholics to help them ensure the future safety of ...
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• Headteachers attack new child protection rules

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Private and state school leaders, united in rare alliance, say rules will stop language exchange programmes and discourage parents from helping out at schools Jessica Shepherd Teachers leaders representing almost 45,000 schools have written to the government to object to new child protection rules they say will ...
  5 days ago

• CWDC creates online childrens centre

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 121
  The Childrens Workforce Development Council has created a new online childrens centre on the DirectgovKids website for children , which aims to inform five to 11-year-olds about social workers and foster carers. It tells children: "There are lots of people whose job it is to help children. ... Some adults work with ...
  6 days ago

• Canada: bogus forensics took woman’s son, sent her to jail

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 632
  Testimony by now-disgraced forensic pathologist Charles Smith sent Sherry Sherret-Robinson to jail for a year on charges of infanticide, and resulted in the permanent loss of her other child. Ontario’s highest court has cleared her, but it is rather late. [ Jonathan Turley via Radley Balko ; Wikipedia on Charles ...
  6 days ago

• Social cost of unhappiness

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Your news item on The Young Foundation report ( Millions of Britons unhappy and lonely despite improved welfare state, report says , 7 December) gets right to the heart of many of the problems that affect large swaths of society. Unhappiness and loneliness create emotionally bereft and isolated communities, and ...
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• Appeals Court Sets Aside Order Barring Parents Who Gave Up Child from Talking About Child’s Medical Condition

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 782
  The case is In re T.T. , decided today by the Nebraska Court of Appeals. A few relevant passages: This appeal involves a 17-year-old youth, T.T., who was left by his parents at a Lincoln, Nebraska, hospital under a previous version of Nebraska’s “Safe Haven” law. The mother and stepfather, S.Q. and A.Q., ...
  1 week ago

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