Dear Colleague,

What impact will the emergency budget have for children in poverty in your area? What strategies can you put in place to assist the poorest families who are facing up to

the prospect of having to cut their spending?

Join Children & Young People Now and your peers at the inaugural Child Poverty conference to discover what you can do to combat the implications of these budgetary threats and

how you can deliver positive…

A message to all members of URrights.earthlings

I will appreciate any feedback from all members please, relative to the service we have been benefiting from.

I do not know if all memebrs have received any of the notices from the providers of the service, who are to start charging for the facilities & I need to have the essential feedback from ALL MEMBERS.

In th emantime I am looking into the developing states and I am comparing…

• Miscarriages of justice – July 19, 2005
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Safeguards are needed against social workers

SIR – For over 25 years we have been supporting parents subjected to unfounded allegations of child abuse and we echo Christopher Booker’s concerns (June

20) that the system has swayed too far in favour of social services when

they wish to remove children from loving families.

It is worrying that not only are applications to remove children growing as a result of an overreaction to the tragic Baby…

So Mr Narey states that more children should be taken into care.

The Director of Barnardos should be well aware that the family courts are in meltdown, with the alarmingly increase in care proceedings, which in some parts of the country is as much as 80%.

With the former comes the large waiting list for guardians to be appointed to cases, in the family court arena, the waiting list in some

parts of the…

The Future of Recruiting and Retaining Social Workers: Best practice and reform

Date:

24 Jun 2010

Venue:

Central London (Venue TBC)

Exclusive Sponsor:

Tribal

The recruitment and retention of social workers is at crisis point. Research by the Local Government Association has found that 60…