Archive for September 2024

The Lampard Inquiry will examine the deaths of people who had received inpatient care for mental health in Essex between 2000 and 2023.

Herman Hui Chung-shing, chairman of the Social Workers Registration Board, which oversees 27,000 professionals in the sector, said on Saturday that the code of conduct would include the provisions to bolster the mechanism for dealing with anyone involved in national security and other serious criminal cases…. Asked whether social workers convicted in a subversion trial over an unofficial Legislative Council election primary in 2020 would be struck off, Hui said they would be “disqualified from continuing to practise” but the details of each case would be handled individually.

Amanda Kerstetter, REACH Harm Reduction Specialist for South King County, holds a box of narcan in 2023. Narcan can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 booth at the National Conservative Conference in Washington D.C., July 8, 2024.

Sixty years ago, Life photographer John Dominis traveled to eastern Kentucky, where he captured shocking and raw photographs of deprivation—the target of President Lyndon Johnson’s recently announced “unconditional war on poverty.” Published in a feature photo-essay, the images humanized those who stood to gain the most from new federal aid programs.

Lilla, 14, and her service dog, Lopez, outside their family’s home in Michigan. This year’s middle school winner of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge tells how her golden retriever, Lopez, helped restore her independence.

There is a growing sense that the future of work might not unfold in our favour. People are expected to work longer, for less, with less security and fewer protections. Rather than making work easier or more rewarding, we expect the development and application of new technologies, particularly in the areas of automation, computation and artificial intelligence, to disempower us.

Several religious orders have been given “legal advice” to stop participating in reviews by the Irish Catholic Church’s child abuse watchdog, over concerns about “data protection”.