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• Scurvy scumbags

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 437
  David Davis I meant Derbyshire County Council Soviet. I thought all County Soviets are now Tory, are they not? WTF are these scumbag social workers doing still in employment then? All those evil departments should have been put on the street with binliners, and theirdepartmental hard disks and Servers malleted, ...
  4 days ago

• Joined Up Government...

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 441
  So, on the one hand , we are all to be given smaller portions of junk food to prevent us gorging ourselves. Yet, on the other hand : Like many toddlers Zak Hessey was a fussy eater who regularly refused his mothers healthy home cooking . Concerned about his falling weight, his worried parents took him to ...
  4 days ago

• Pop. 1280’s “Bedbugs”: a “Blade Runner-esque urban wasteland”

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 119
  In yesterday’s Village Voice Music Blog , Chris Weingarten asked members of the band Pop. 1280 about their new song, “Bedbugs.”  It was written by Ivan Lip who is a social worker working in housing. What is “Bedbugs” about? Ivan Lip, guitarist: I think it’s just about bedbugs. Chris Bug, ...
  5 days ago

• Are social workers getting younger, or is Goldie getting older?

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 126
  Goldie added a bit of celebrity glamour to the launch of the Social Work Task Force report in London yesterday. The actor and musician, who was recently involved in governments Help Give Them a Voice campaign to highlight the positive impact social workers can have on the lives of children and vulnerable adults, ...
  5 days ago

• How the papers reacted to the social work task force reforms

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 126
  If you were in any doubt how massive a reform of social workyesterdays task force report has set in motion, you need only look atthe varying degree of coverage across the mainstream news outlets.
  5 days ago

• Weekly dinners unite students, mentally disabled

  
  Student Life — Authority: 486
  In the midst of the dinnertime bustle at South 40 House, a diverse group of students and members of the local community, including Washington University staff, sit down for a dinner that emphasizes unhurried conversation and meeting new people. The student-run group Natural Ties organizes these weekly dinners to ...
  5 days ago

• Controversial school drug tests get under way in Hong Kong

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Hong Kong, Dec 1 (DPA) The Hong Kong government Tuesday began a controversial trial project to test 22,000 secondary school pupils for drug use.From Tuesday, urine samples were being taken from pupils in 23 schools and results shared between teachers, police and social workers in a move to tackle a growing tide of ...
  6 days 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 ...
  6 days ago

• Paedophiles continued as social workers because of watchdog failings

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Social workers who abused children were left free to carry on working because of critical failings by the watchdog in charge of them, an inquiry has found.
  1 week ago

• Minister backs creation of Royal College of Social Work

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 446
  Minister Ed Balls says the government will announce the intent to create a Royal College of Social Work to create more ‘professional standards’ in the industry. A report due to be delivered on Tuesday by the U.K.’s social work task force is expected to recommend a national college of social work be created to ...
  1 week ago

• Pay debate rages on CareSpace

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 126
  Social workers salaries have been a hot topic on CareSpace for the past couple of weeks. On one thread, the discussion has focused on whether or not social workers deserve to be paid more or less than other public sector staff . A central question seems to be, should pay be assessed according to the risk involved ...
  1 week ago

• First opportunity to discuss the Social Work Task Force report

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 126
  Care services minister Phil Hope and childrens minister Baroness Morgan will give the governments response to the Social Work Task Force report at a special Community Care conference next Thursday. Social Work Task Force and Beyond: Rising to the Challenges will provide the first opportunity to discuss the ...
  1 week ago

• Should there be less secrecy in child protection?

  
  ConservativeHome's Local Government Blog — Authority: 535
  The Conservative MP Tim Yeo gave an interesting speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday denouncing the social work practices of Suffolk County Council. Often social workers are criticised for being too slow to remove children from their birth parents where this is necessary (and then often to slow to place the ...
  1 week ago

• The future of adult social care in England

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 126
  Quick straw poll: Has the delivery of frontline adult social care services remained high on the agenda for your organisation, despite the economic crisis? A large majority (84%) of social care workers and managers at the Transforming the Adult Social Care Workforce: Putting People First conference in London on ...
  1 week ago

• MP accuses Suffolk Council of "kidnapping" children

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 126
  Tim Yeo, Conservative MP for South Suffolk, has accused Suffolk Council of "kidnapping" newly born babies in cases where the birth parents do not wish to give them up for adoption. Writing ahead of last nights adjournment debate on the adoption and custody of children in Suffolk, Yeo expressed "deep concerns" about ...
  1 week ago

• When ‘Emergency Care Proceedings’ Doesn’t Mean What One Might Assume It Means...

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 441
  A boy of two was allowed to remain in the care of a blind 82-year-old widow by the council involved in the tragedy of Baby P. Social workers from Haringey said the child was thriving with the frail pensioner, who had once fostered his mother. Oh, Haringey again. Is anyone surprised? But the widows family ...
  1 week ago

• 6,488 crimes committed by youngsters in the North east

  
  BNP Scotland — Authority: 120
  In what can only be described as proof of the complete failure of decades of political correct liberalism, figures released last week show 6,488 crimes had been committed in the north east by youngsters aged between eight and sixteen in the last year! The list does not make easy reading and includes crimes of rape, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pregnant woman with learning disabilities flees to keep baby

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 433
  From the  [UK] Daily Mail, [UK] Times:A pregnant woman with learning disabilities and her fiance have reportedly fled Scotland after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth, saying the woman was not capable of raising the child.Two months ago, the couple’s wedding was halted 48 hours before the ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Learning Lessons’? Yeah. Right…

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 441
  Police and social workers have been criticised after a little girl was put back into the care of her abusive stepmother . Yeah, you didn’t misread that; ‘ back into the care of…’ The little girl was born in Portugal in 2002 before being moved to the UK at the age of three. She lived in an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mystery shopping the Tower Hamlets way

  
  ConservativeHome's Local Government Blog — Authority: 535
  The recent post strike means that magazine deliveries have pretty erratic but Private Eye has now started arriving again. The latest issue includes an intriguing item about Tower Hamlets Council in its Rotten Boroughs section. The following internal email to Tower Hamlets staff has been leaked: "From Wednesday 11 ...
  2 weeks ago

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