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“Our interest originated from our clinical practice with survivors, and with questions raised by professionals who wonder how to react toward BDSM practices in trauma survivors,” explained Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan, a senior faculty member at the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa and a certified sex therapist.
Marine Le Pen’s far-right party has won the electoral first round in France. Welcome to a Europe Orwell would have recognised. Above: ‘Newspeak’, from the Ministry of Truth, in Orwell’s 1984
A statement from the Department of Health said: “Minister (Mike) Nesbitt and the Department recognise the sustained pressures that social workers are facing”. It added that “the Department and Health and Social Care Trusts are undertaking a series of both short and longer term actions to ensure that social workers have safe and manageable workloads.”
The 235 children, under the care of two social work departments – Dublin southwest/Kildare west/Wicklow and Dublin south central – still have no allocated social workers and some have had no allocated worker for years, according to Judge Conor Fottrell. The failure to inform the courts of this, as the agency was obliged to do, was “a failure of management at local, regional and national level” and raised “serious concerns” about issues of governance and communication within the agency at all levels, he said.
They wait on you at your favorite restaurants. They help raise your children as early childhood education aides. They patrol your streets. They change your parents’ bedpans at the personal care facility. They cut your grass. They are young families trying to get a start and save some money to buy a house. But they aren’t good enough to live next door to you. Actually, not even next door but across a state road and more than 200 yards away. They see your signs expressing contempt for them, hundreds of households in desperate need, like you were once and your kids are now, for a decent place to live. They need homes they can afford.
Young adults who have higher levels of inflammation, which is associated with obesity, physical inactivity, chronic illness, stress and smoking, may experience reduced cognitive function in midlife, a new study out of UC San Francisco has found.
