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The Youth Justice Department has agreed to review contract clauses which community leaders feared would gag frontline organisations from speaking to media under risk of funding loss, Queensland’s social services sector has revealed. Above: Queensland Council of Social Service chief executive Aimee McVeigh and Youth Advocacy Centre chief executive Katherine Hayes speak to journalists outside Parliament House in 2024.
he sovereign citizen movement is growing, as demonstrated by an increase in the presence of “sovereign citizens” before the courts. Australia is likely to see more violence fuelled by this ideology unless some of the underlying drivers are addressed. The sovereign citizen movement has been in Australia for decades. It can be traced back to the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the movement was emerging in the United States.
We deserve more vacation, for sure. But we also deserve more free time all year round. Americans work hundreds of hours a year more than Europeans. Imagine if we had more time for our families, friends, the natural world, and our own minds every week. One appealing and highly practical approach is the four-day work week, whose implementation Boston College scholar Juliet Schor has been studying in over thirty companies. She’s finding widespread satisfaction among both employees and employers.
Greater maternal warmth, defined as more praise, positive tone of voice and acts of affection, has previously been shown to predict better health across the lifespan. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations have been unclear, said Dr. Jenna Alley, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research at UCLA.
The Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA), nicknamed the “chastity bill,” was a federal law that provided funding for teen pregnancy prevention under Ronald Reagan’s Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981. AFLA specifically funded programs that solely promoted abstinence, and specifically did not provide funding for any programs that taught about abortion or contraception. This often led to direct federal funding of religious abstinence-only programs, and led to a loss in funding for comprehensive sex ed programs.
Coventry council’s decision to use US spy-tech firm Palantir’s AI in social work, Send and children’s services, including to aid in case-note transcription and other time-intensive administrative tasks, is extremely alarming and provides yet more reasons why we need to slow down and think VERY CAREFULLY about what we are ushering into the social work profession, and the lives of people who have involvement with social services.
Public sector workers have voiced “deep concern” after Coventry city council signed a £500,000-a-year artificial intelligence contract with the US data technology company Palantir…. The council’s chief executive, Julie Nugent, said it aimed to “improve internal data integration and service delivery” and “explore the transformative opportunities of artificial intelligence”.