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A Social Investment Partnership launched today in the Kamenets Podisk district of Ukraine

International Federation of Social Workers

A Social Investment Partnership was launched today in the Kamenets Podisk district of Ukraine by the National Association of Social Workers Ukraine and IFSW. The President of the NASWU Yana […].

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If this chaos does not make us rethink our idea of the good society, whatever will? | Kenan Malik

The Guardian

Eighty years after the Beveridge report, time to ask again what are the essentials that allow us to thrive ‘Out of intermittent labour spring our gravest woes. It produces in the labourer intermittent energy; the off-days become habitual; with indolence comes intemperance; with uncertainty of employment comes recklessness about the future; from these result pauperism and the whole series of mental and physical infirmities that are the creatures of pauperism.

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Revealed: Ofsted asks staff from private care firms to inspect children’s homes

The Guardian

Recruits in pilot scheme have been taken from chains in charge of facilities deemed unsatisfactory Managers from some of the largest private children’s home chains in the UK have been asked to carry out inspections for Ofsted, despite those groups owning numerous homes that are deemed unsatisfactory. The Observer has discovered that Ofsted, which oversees standards in children’s social care, has recruited staff from the Outcomes First Group and the Keys Group to inspect homes as part of a pilot.

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Break the silence on child abuse | Letters

The Guardian

For decades, society has turned a deaf ear to the suffering of children at the hands of abusive adults. Enough is enough I read with deep sadness Sonia Sodha’s article ( Comment ), in particular her notion that we “live in a society where there is so much guilt, shame and fear around child sexual abuse that there are powerful collective instincts to try to minimise it”.

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