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• Marie Furness obituary

  21-08-2018 18:35
  
  In the late 1960s, my aunt, Marie Furness, qualified as a social worker and started as a housemother in Moss Side, Manchester, in what were then called approved schools. Residential social care was to become her passion and her lifelong career. Marie, who has died aged 74, was always clear about the unfairness and inequalities facing “her kids”, always battling to improve their lives to give them the best possible start.She could not see the point of imprisoning young women who had s
  
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• Sam Clark: ‘Abuse of learning disabled people won’t stop until we all matter equally’

  21-08-2018 15:00
  The head of Learning Disability England says attitudes are partly to blame for care failuresHaving ‘low ego’ is not something most chief executives are known for. But it was in the job description of the role Sam Clark successfully applied for as the inaugural chief executive of the campaigning organisation Learning Disability England. The successful candidate, “will be collaborative and ‘low ego’; motivated primarily by others succeeding over achieving their own pe
  
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• Don't blame councils for the harm done by government ideology | Joanne Fry

  21-08-2018 12:29
  Far from ‘smashing up the public sector’, we’re trying to provide services in the face of austerityGuardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty has vividly described “pulverism” – the idea that councils should use financial crises not merely to make savings but to smash up and reshape the public sector – and claims it has gone nationwide.
  No it hasn’t, at least not in my experience of working in all kinds of councils around the country over the past deca
  
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• How dare the pope ask ordinary Catholics to atone for child abuse? | Joanna Moorhead

  21-08-2018 11:56
  It was the church hierarchy’s desperation to protect itself that led to these horrors. It must reform – not usThe Catholic church is in meltdown: the appalling story emerged last week of clerical abuse stretching back decades in Pennsylvania, where at least 1,000 children were the victims of 300 priests.In the UK, a report on the behaviour of the monks at two leading Catholic schools was released recently. That report, from the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, details (an
  
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• Brexit could result in 115,000 fewer care workers, finds study

  21-08-2018 01:02
  Analysis of ONS data suggests workforce crisis by 2026 if freedom of movement endsEnding freedom of movement after Brexit could result in 115,000 fewer adult social care workers by 2026, according to an analysis of official figures.The thinktank Global Future said the sector had become increasingly reliant upon low-skilled EU workers who were expected to face restrictions after Britain leaves the European Union.Related: Care worker shortage after Brexit 'will force women to quit jobs'Continue re
  
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