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Firstbus Faces £200,000 Claim From Injured Social Worker Consultant

By The Scotsman21st November 2007News Scotland

A social work consultant is claiming £200,000 for being knocked down by a bus, while her husband is seeking an additional £100,000 in damages for witnessing the accident.

New Unit To Fight Human Trafficking

By The Irish Independent21st November 2007News Northern Ireland

A new unit, dedicated to co-ordinating the implemention of a national strategy to tackle human trafficking, has been set up.

Strike ‘Threat To Future Of Special Needs Children’

By The Belfast Telegraph21st November 2007News Northern Ireland

The ongoing classroom assistants’ strike may cause “serious disruption to the education of children who attend special schools”, charity Disability Action has claimed.

Councils In Wales To Receive £3m To Study Childcare Needs

By The Western Mail21st November 2007News Wales

Local authorities in Wales are being given £3m to assess future childcare needs, it was announced yesterday.

Kids Let Down By ‘Patchy Service’ In Mental Health

By The Daily Post21st November 2007News Wales

Childrens’ minister Jane Hutt yesterday faced warnings that mental health services for children and teenagers in Wales were in crisis.

Child Mental Health Services ‘In Crisis’

By This Is Swansea21st November 2007News Wales

A Report claiming mental health services for children and teenagers are in crisis will be debated by the Assembly today.

Social Workers ‘Too Busy’ To Fill Forms

By This Is Swansea21st November 2007News Wales

Hard-pressed social workers are putting children before form-filling because they are so overworked. But according to Mark Roszkowski, Swansea Council’s head of child and family services, they have no choice because the department is so short-staffed.

Charity Inspectorate Not Needed, Says Minister

By Society Guardian21st November 2007News England

The government has dismissed calls for a new charity inspectorate to scrutinise the performance and effectiveness of charities.

{mosimage}The call came from Martin Brookes, the director of research at New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), which advises wealthy donors on which causes to support.

He said charities are failing to “adequately record and monitor” the impact of donations. The effect, Brookes said earlier this week, was that millions of pounds a year in public donations to good causes may be going to waste.

What is needed, he said, is a new body running in parallel with the Charity Commission, to produce performance data and rank charities by the value for money they deliver from donations.

But a spokesman for Phil Hope, the cabinet office minister responsible for charities, said the proposal would result in “unacceptable red tape” and insisted that efficiency and effectiveness is already being sufficiently studied by the Charity Commission.

“The government doesn’t believe that a new institution to assess and improve the performance of charities is neccesary or the right way forward,” the Cabinet Office spokesman said.