The Odd Couple: Can VCS and trade union partnerships build the Big Society?

Date and Time: Monday 13 December 2010 10.30am – 12pm (followed by lunch)

Venue: Voluntary Action Leicestershire, Leicester, LE1 5SN

Come and join Community and ACEVO at a FREE event to launch the new partnership between the charity sector union Community and VCS lead body ACEVO.

Speakers include: Peter Kyle (ACEVO) and Joe Mann…

Social Enterprise: Community, Economy and Opportunity Meeting

Date and Time: Thursday 9 December 2pm - 4pm

Venue: Skills for Enterprise, 2-4 Colton Street, Leicester, LE1 1QA

A meeting to get together voluntary and social enterprise sectors is taking place. The meeting has been arranged to give an opportunity for the Voluntary and the community social enterprise sector to…

Social workers are not always receiving the amount of supervision they need and most are not getting adequate support for professional development issues or the emotional problems

their work presents, according to a survey released today by the

British Association of Social Workers (BASW).

Among respondents to an online BASW poll, 69% said their supervision does not adequately address emotional issues arising from…

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Merger Strengthens Centre of Family Law Excellence

The merger of Huddersfield Solicitors Ridley & Hall with Dewsbury based Michael George & Company has created one of the strongest firms of family solicitors in West Yorkshire. The merger,

effective from Left to right: Nigel Priestley, Sarah Young and Michael

Georgethe beginning of October, means that Ridley and Hall now has 4

Solicitors on the Law Society’s specialist Childrens’ Panel.

Sarah Young, the…

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News: Nigel Priestley wins Solicitor of the Year award at Law Society Excellence Awards 2010 click for more info or see Nigel’s interview at the awards ceremony http://services.lawsociety.org.uk/events/awards/excellence…

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RTBF radio based in Bruxelles would air a magazine on UK stolen kids.

I'm quite happy that it's the first one on that subject in…