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Dear All Our webmaster Kevin has completed the current website update and I have now sent him a cheque for £110 for the work. Let me know of any suggestions for the next update of information to go on the site - it may not be for quite a while though unless we get more funding for this type of thing. The web site hit new monthly record highs in April with 16,865 hits which was well over twice the level of hits at the beginning of the year. The number of visits though tends to remain quite… Continue

Added by Alison J Stevens on May 5, 2011 at 14:26 — No Comments

Osteogenesis imperfecta: the distinction from child abuse and the recognition of a variant form.

Paterson CR, Burns J, McAllion SJ.

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Department of Biochemical Medicine, University of Dundee,…

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Added by Alison J Stevens on May 4, 2011 at 19:26 — No Comments

BIRTH INJURIES CAN LEAD TO ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD ABUSE

http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/sec23/ch264/ch264b.html#sec23-ch264-ch264b-87a

Added by Alison J Stevens on May 4, 2011 at 19:01 — No Comments

breakthroughs/a-new-way-of-thinking-about-treatments-and-cures

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/health/medical_breakthroughs/a-new-way-of-thinking-about-treatments-and-cures

Added by Alison J Stevens on May 4, 2011 at 14:01 — No Comments

MEDICAL EXPERTS AND THE CRIMINAL COURTS PDF

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1125168/pdf/294.pdf

Added by Alison J Stevens on May 4, 2011 at 13:41 — No Comments

ASYLUM SEEKER FAMILIES LOOSING OUT CHARITY STATES

http://www.cypnow.co.uk/Social_Care/article/1067791/loss-refugee-legal-charity-leads-drop-asylum-seeking-families-receiving-help/

Added by Alison J Stevens on May 4, 2011 at 12:43 — No Comments

Social care professionals opposed to outsourcing, finds survey

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2011/05/04/116746/social-care-professionals-oppose-outsourcing-finds-survey.htm

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Children in care: a personal view from Andrew Adonis

http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/news/article/212/

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Family Fees from May 2011

On 9 May 2011 new fee schemes will be introduced for family work – the Private Family Law Representation Scheme and the Family Advocacy Scheme. The guidance in relation to both these schemes together with the Advocates’ Attendance Form that will be used for advocates at hearings and Questions and Answers on the new schemes can be found in the documents section on the right hand side of this page.

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Added by Alison J Stevens on May 3, 2011 at 20:59 — No Comments

RECORD RECORD RECORD SOCIAL SERVICES CASE CONFERENCES

RECORD RECORD RECORD SOCIAL SERVICES CASE CONFERENCES…

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Added by Alison J Stevens on May 3, 2011 at 20:29 — No Comments

Dictaphone saves man from prison

Dictaphone saves man from prison CLEARED: Lovel Dennis (left) with his brother Kenneth

Secret tape recording clears him of charges brought by social services

A MAN who was cleared of all charges after secretly recording a meeting with social workers on his dictaphone, has called for an independent team to monitor social workers.

Lovel Brian Dennis was accused of affray, threat to kill,…

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Added by Alison J Stevens on May 3, 2011 at 20:01 — No Comments