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A care home for children with disabilities is set to open in a street in Norwich despite pushback from its future neighbours…. People living near the home objected to the plans due to fears about increased traffic in the area, as well as noise levels and the impact of this on a “quiet, suburban cul-de-sac”.
Social Workers Registration Board chief executive Sarah Clark (above) said 11 polytechnics offered recognised social work qualifications and the board had supported the unification work. “Our focus is on ensuring that graduates are safe and competent to practise so having some consistency across the country was seen as advantageous,” she said.
Adolescents with an internet addiction undergo changes in the brain that could lead to additional addictive behaviour and tendencies, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
“He’s in the pocket of Republican billionaires … who are racist,” the incumbent said. “He is also not just anti-Black racist, he’s anti-Muslim racist”…. Latimer, who is benefiting from a multi-million-dollar support campaign by pro-Israel AIPAC, has said Bowman’s criticism of the Jewish state stands in stark contrast to mainstream Democrats.
“This is a historic opportunity for the United States to provide global leadership on tax fairness and also strengthen the administration’s vital domestic efforts to achieve a fairer tax system,” wrote Sanders (I-Vt.) and Omar (D-Minn.), who were joined by 16 Democrats in Congress.
George Latimer, the corporate-funded primary challenger gunning for the congressional seat in New York’s 16th district currently occupied by Rep. Jamaal Bowman, for years faced criticism for failing to fulfill a federal mandate to desegregate Westchester County, a review of the public record shows…. Latimer’s House campaign is now being backed by massive amounts of outside spending from the United Democracy Project, an AIPAC-run super PAC funded in large part by real estate interests.
A 1996 social welfare policy draft that the health ministry initiated, needs to move beyond its current status quo. Therefore, one cannot help but ask, which stakeholder should spearhead the development of social service policies or frameworks? Should it be left to a single sector? a combination of many or to the overarching regulatory body, specifically the Health Professions Council of Namibia (HPCNA)?
The number of places in council-run children’s homes in England has fallen by a third since 2012 – at the same time as places in privately run profit-making children’s homes have soared, according to an Observer analysis of government data.