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• BNP takes on Balls in Morley and Outwood

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 585
  The British National Party has selected its prospective candidate for the new Morley and Outwood constituency at the next General Election. Councillor Chris Beverley (Morley South ward, Leeds City Council) has been selected as the prospective candidate for the seat. The BNP beat all the main political parties across ...
  5 days ago

• Neighbours

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  Unsurprisingly, confidentiality and the maintaining of such is a key part of our job. Over the past few months really, an interesting and in some ways warming story has developed in front of me that I thought I would share just before Christmas. It involves two women whom I care coordinate. Both have mood disorders ...
  5 days ago

• Of Snowiness

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  Really it was a fairly busy day yesterday. The person I had been scheduled to visit and had completely expected to be out when I called was actually in. Of course, he wouldn’t let me in but we managed a fairly useful chat through the front door and kitchen window. He had some choice words about ‘social workers’ ...
  1 week ago

• Towards Christmas

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  Certainly it’s been picking up this week in terms of the rush – and compounded by more than the usual number of people off work at any given period, mean that it’s likely to be a busy week. I am used to working over the Christmas period – I can’t remember the last time I had the Christmas period off work ...
  1 week ago

• Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes – thoughts after the series.

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  Last week, I wrote about the programme in general and my thoughts after watching the first in the two-part series presented and put together by Gerry Robinson which explores care homes and how they can be improved. In the meantime, the Guardian has published an article on their ‘Joe Public’ blog highlighting ...
  1 week ago

• Mischievous

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  So on the fostering front, girl has been with us for two and a half months now – more or less. We went to a local pantomime at the weekend and I’d forgotten how much fun it could be and had to explain away my somewhat hoarse voice when I got back to work (lots of shouting was obviously involved in panto visit!). ...
  2 weeks ago

• Deduction u/s. 80-IB(10) on YOY basis to builders/developers showing profit on partial completion method

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 158
  Deduction under section 80-IB(10) available on a year to year basis for an undertaking engaged in developing and building housing projects showing profit on partial completion methodRelated posts:Clarification regarding deduction under section... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Argyll & Bute first council fully connected to high-speed broadband

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 445
  The £70million Pathfinder North scheme, which began in May 2007 and is part-funded by the Scottish Government, aims to implement a future-proof high-speed broadband network, provided by Cable&Wireless business, THUS, across 5  local authorities in the Highlands & Islands.Argyll and Bute is now the first ...
  2 weeks ago

• A day in the life.. of Approved Mental Health Professionals

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  Today,  Deborah Orr in the Guardian has an article published today detailing a day out that she has spent with some AMHPs in the Camden Duty Office. It’s an interesting insight into the day to day work in their office and certainly worth a glance to understand some of the processes that we work with as Approved ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scot who left legacy to places that shared his name a “misunderstanding”

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 446
  By Cara Sulieman HE HIT headlines across the world when it was revealed he left his legacy to places across the globe that shared his surname. But the claims baffled the solicitors of Eric Gordon Douglas – the mysterious Edinburgh philanthropist – as his will doesn’t show any such bequests. It seems that the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes?

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  This evening, BBC2 are running the first of a series of two programmes about the state of dementia residential (and presumably nursing) care in the UK. Gerry Robinson, a successful businessman, who, in 2007 brought us ‘ Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS ?’ returns to focus his attention on what might be done to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Smart Wheelie bins to charge for waste

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Wheelie bins with microchips which measure how much rubbish they contain could be introduced to make householders cut down on their waste. Alternatively, under plans outlined by council leaders today, people could be charged according to the size of their bin or of their rubbish bags which they would buy from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Calm before the Storm

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  For some reason, that I wish I could capture in a bottle and keep, I woke up in a particularly good mood yesterday. I made a more conscious effort than normal to try and preserve my good humour and positivity throughout the day. It started with supervision – my first supervision with a new supervisor. There are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Inspections

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  The big news today seems to the publication of the annual performance assessments from the CQC (Care Quality Commission). The results can be read in two ways as is evident from the headlines resulting from this publication – from Community Care’s ‘Councils improve for the seventh year running in adult care’ ...
  3 weeks ago

• Councils will be forced to respond to petitions from local residents

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Councils will be forced to respond to petitions from local residents setting out what they will do to sort out problems, under new Government guidelines.
  3 weeks ago

• 2 of 6 proposed Special Protection Areas for Golden Eagles are in Argyll

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 445
  Environment Minister, Roseanna Cunningham, has announced 6 sites proposed as additions to the existing 8 Special Protection Areas for Golden Eagles.Scottish Natural Heritage is to begin a 3-month public consultation period on the proposal which would see these 6 areas, amounting to 350,000 hectares of hand, added to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Social Work Taskforce Reports

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  The final report of the Social Work Taskforce, set up to look at the profession as a whole, is published today. There are not going to be any surprises as there has been an interim report already and much discussion of its contents. The Guardian reports more details about it and it seems to be a very positive move ...
  4 weeks ago

• Personal Care at Home Bill

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  The Bill claiming to bring in the promised free home care for those with critical needs was introduced to parliament yesterday. There is a lengthy ‘impact assessment’ available at the Department of Health website that I don’t have time to trawl through before going to work this morning. A brief perusal ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hard work is paying off

  
  BNP Scotland — Authority: 115
  BNP Scotland are now in reach of winning a seat in Holyrood, that is if the usual suspects don’t change the voting system by 2011. This reflects the hard work that has been done over the last two years that has resulted in doubling our membership and increasing our vote to with in a whisker of saving our deposit for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Moving on Individual Budgets

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 122
  And so it starts. Currently we are still in ‘pilot’ phase of the Individual Budget roll-out – the forefront of the personalisation and self-directed support agenda and if that sentence made little sense to you – you can probably count yourself lucky! Very basically there is an ideologically  welcome move ...
  4 weeks ago

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