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Social care leaders hailed in New Year Honours

Community Care

Others honoured this year include: Paula Hudgell, foster carer with Kent council (OBE for services to children); Andrea Street, deputy director at the Welsh Government (OBE for services to health and social care); Shadim Hussain, chief executive, My Foster Family (MBE for services to equality and the foster care system); Sarah Johal, strategic leader, (..)

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The Social Worker of the Year Awards welcomes two new Trustees

Social Work Awards

Jon is Director of IMPACT (Improving Adult Care Together), the UK centre for evidence implementation in adult social care, and a Non-Executive Director of University Hospitals Birmingham and Birmingham Children’s Trust. Joining Lisa as a new Trustee is fellow qualified Social Worker, Jon Glasby.

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Third Season Episode 31:A conversation with Paul and Sally Nash on the sibling support projectThird Season Episode 31:

Hospice Chaplaincy

Paul and Sally Nash live in Birmingham UK and married in 1986. In Today’s episode, Saul talks to Rev. Paul Nash and his wife Rev. Dr. Sally Nash on their current research “The Sibling Support Project.”

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‘A huge step back for the city’: people in Birmingham on council budget cuts

The Guardian

Proposals to reduce funding for services from bin collections to social care, arts and libraries leave many worried for the future It wasn’t long ago that the people of Birmingham were being told the city was on the brink of a “golden decade”, with record levels of investment off the back of events including the Commonwealth Games and the arrival of (..)

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One by one, England’s councils are going bankrupt – and nobody in Westminster wants to talk about it | John Harris

The Guardian

One in five say they will be insolvent by next year. These local crises add up to a national catastrophe that’s about to explode A new financial year looms. The government is reportedly in the mood for pre-election tax cuts; the opposition talks of iron fiscal discipline.

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Manslaughter conviction for mother of seven-year-old who died ‘gasping for air’

The Guardian

Birmingham heroin addict Laura Heath repurposed son’s asthma inhaler as a crack pipe A woman has been convicted of manslaughter after her seven-year-old son died in Birmingham alone and “gasping for air” in a garden after suffering an asthma attack.