Archive for November 2024

The Fields in Yorkshire now has a social hub

My mother, Janie Thomas, a social worker and lecturer, who has died aged 95, became a leading light in the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), of which she was president from 1984 to 1986. She began her career in 1955 at St George’s hospital, central London, before working with children and families at the London county council (LCC) and then the borough of Tower Hamlets. In 1964 she switched into academia, lecturing in social work at the London School of Economics (LSE) for more than a decade before finishing at Hong Kong Polytechnic (now the Hong Kong Polytechnic University) as a principal lecturer.

An unhoused man carries a tarp and some of his belongings across Polk Street during a homeless encampment sweep in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. Unhoused people on Cedar Street are forced to move their shelters and belongings on a regular basis by San Francisco city workers

An office sits vacant in San Francisco in October 2022. The city is one of several across the country offering incentives to convert unused office space into housing.

According to Rebecca Niemiec, who was the state’s first Bureau of Animal Protection (BAP) director before returning to Colorado State University’s animal-Human Policy Center as the director, Colorado has some of the most comprehensive programs to address animal cruelty and neglect.

The election takes are still flowing as freely as the Dom Pérignon at one of Kamala Harris’s Silicon Valley fundraisers. Many liberals agree on one thing: the American people suck, especially the working class.

The number of children’s social workers employed by councils will need to increase by 13,000 – nearly a third – over the next decade as a result of growing need for the care and support of children and young people and to reduce increasing reliance on agency staff, new research by the Local Government Association forecasts.