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Social work is too often a byproduct of paperwork – any review of Ofsted's inspection methods must focus on the childrenThe fallout from the tragic death of Baby Peter in Haringey has spread far and wide. Almost every public (Read More)
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The Queen's speech, which outlined new legal guarantees for public services, reflects the trend for commitments and guarantees on public service delivery to be written into legislation (13 bills, seven minutes, one question: (Read More)
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It can take days for us to get the information we need to provide care for confused patientsAndrea Gillies suggests that hospital care for people with dementia is deficient because staff don't know, or don't care, about looki (Read More)
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The government's proposed legislation to set legal guarantees for what parents and children can expect from schools must be backed up with provision for schools to meet themIt's difficult to remember a Queen's speech that did (Read More)
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Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series of application programming inter (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Failure to post epic Betfair Chase on the internet is symptomatic of a backward-looking sportRacing's ability to do itself down, even at moments when its light burns most brightly, is a continuing source of wonder. The strugg (Read More)
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Having just launched a new real-time mobile search engine in conjunction with OneRiot only weeks ago, mobile search company Taptu is now expanding their revamped service to the Android platform. Today, they're launching a new (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Ofsted forces councils to meet inspection requirements rather than improving services, a report saysOfsted's approach to inspecting children's social care is flawed and bureaucratic, forcing councils to focus on meeting the r (Read More)
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Emberton school in Buckinghamshire temporarily shuts after death of pupil who may have contracted swine fluA primary school closed today after the death of a pupil who may have contracted swine flu.Tests were being carried ou (Read More)
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News: Andy Burnham told charities at risk in policy shift Features: Inside Broken Britain Interview: 'Women have a hard time accepting that I spend my life looking for underage sex slaves'Welcome to the daily news round-up fr (Read More)
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PCC rules paper breaches code twice by making unsubstantiated claims over boy's behaviour and failing to do enough to conceal his identity. By Chris TryhornThe News of the World has been censured by the Press Complaints Commi (Read More)
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A Conservative government would scrap the Export Credit Guarantee Department that invests in 'dirty' power stations and instead use the fund to encourage green technologyA Conservative UK government would bring to an end the (Read More)
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Over the past decade, Amazon.com and eBay have continued to dominate the online retail market in the United States. However, there have been signs that more social and distributed forms of online shopping are gaining traction (Read More)
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The former Alaska governor represents thwarted aspirations and brooding resentment. But she backs policies which would increase themIn the film, The American President, the president's speechwriter Lewis Rothschild (played by (Read More)
The Guardian:
If the president had talked instead about Jiwai or Fanfou – Twitter's Chinese rivals – China would have been less confusedWhen Barack Obama told students in Shanghai last week that he had never used Twitter, there were two re (Read More)
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Schools watchdog mauled as critics bite back at 'wasteful' bureaucracyOfsted is facing a crisis in public confidence as it comes under a series of attacks on its authority this week, with the watchdog accused of being "flawed (Read More)
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Venezuelan president courts outrage with praise for Carlos, Mugabe and Amin at gathering of leftist political partiesHugo Chávez has defended the jailed Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal as a freedom fighter and said his (Read More)
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China enjoyed center stage this week thanks to President Obama's visit. Naturally, trade relations were on the agenda.For Internet companies sitting in the US, news reports that chronicled the President's every move in China (Read More)
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Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his social news startup Socialmedian was s (Read More)
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Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months (Read More)