Archive for June 2025

Certainly this is true in the realm of geopolitics. The United States will never again, or at least will not for the foreseeable future, be seen as a reliable and trustworthy partner by its purported allies. Agreements might be resigned and commitments reasserted, but a country that elected the President not once but twice, knowing precisely who he is, cannot be trusted not to do something similar again.

Pictured above, from left to right, speakers at Thursday’s launch event: (Back row) Mairead Harkin, Workforce Development Officer, Northern Ireland Social Care Council; Kevin Leonard, Principal Social Worker, Western Health and Social Care Trust; Linda Sayers, Independent Social Worker, Sayers Training Services, Catherine Maguire, Co-Director of Regulations and Services, Northern Ireland Social Care Worker; Charlene Hill, School Social Worker, St Ronan’s College; Mandy Cowan, Professional Adviser, Northern Ireland Social Care Council; Natasha Palmer, Refugee Support Service, Barnardo’s Northern Ireland and John Brattin, Social Worker, Liverpool City Council. (Front row) Jennifer McKinney, Lecturer in Systemic Psychotherapy, Queen’s University Belfast and Lorraine Conlon, Head of Governance and Planning, Department of Health.

The study found that schools experiencing shootings had significantly fewer mental health professionals than those that did not. On average, schools without shootings employed 3.7 counselors, 1.0 social workers, and 1.4 psychologists per 1,000 students. In contrast, schools that experienced shootings had just 2.9 counselors, 0.7 social workers, and 0.8 psychologists per 1,000 students. These numbers fall well short of the professional recommendations, which call for four counselors, four social workers, and two psychologists per 1,000 students in K–12 schools.

Japan’s labour shortage is forcing its conservative lawmakers to consider overhauling decades-old social welfare rules originally designed to encourage married women to spend more hours looking after the home.

Russell Vought stated on June 1, 2025, in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”