Archive for April 2025

Inspectors say Blackburn with Darwen Council’s social workers “take time to develop rapport and trust with children”

But while students, faculty and advocates across the country expressed measured hope that some university leaders were starting to grow a “backbone”, they noted it was students and faculty who were leading the charge and mounting the pressure that forced university leaders to act.

David Green, president and executive director for SEIU 721 rallies more than 200 social workers for lower caseloads in front of the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles in 2023. More than 55,000 of the union’s LA County employees are preparing for a 48-hour strike beginning at 7 p.m. Monday, April 28, 2025.

Preliminary results from our ongoing research on AI companionship… suggest a fine line between supportive, empowering companionship, and unhealthy psychological dependence, a tension we plan to explore further as data collection and analysis progress. In a world where AI convincingly simulates human emotions, it’s up to us as consumers to critically assess what role these robotic friends should play in our lives.

The proposed Green Paper changes are supposed to be all about getting people into employment. But as a number of claimants living with multiple sclerosis (MS) told the Benefits and Work PIP survey, cuts to personal independence payment (PIP) will have exactly the opposite effect – it will cost them their jobs.