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Labour's patchy record on poverty
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.3.01, 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
On returning to office Labour abolished lone parent benefit, making two million children worse off. Since then a raft of measures has lifted more than one million out of poverty. Asks which is the real Labour legacy.
Are the answers in the tsars?
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.7.98, 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Despite the falling numbers of rough sleepers in London, the Social Exclusion Unit has pledged that the government will establish a body charged with reducing the figure to as near zero as possible. Reports on plans to introduce a "streets tsar" to combat rough sleeping.
Homes Bill gets the thumbs-up from charities
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.1.01, 2001, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains why government proposals have met with such a warm welcome.
The trouble with tagging
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.11.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines a recent government report on tagging for juvenile offenders, and looks at the reaction from organisations working in the field of juvenile justice.
Unseen and not heard
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.4.99, 1999, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Family support has been hailed as a great success, and parents and social workers have welcomed the shift in focus away from interventionist policies. Reports on how now, some doubts have been raised about the safety of children in the light of this practice.
Jam tomorrow
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.12.98, 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how the White Paper Modernising Social Services has been almost universally welcomed. This article looks at why it will take so long for the proposals to come into effect.
Rhetoric sours welcome for cash
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.4.01, 2001, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how drugs agencies have welcomed the government's extra cash for its new anti-drugs initiative, but are not impressed by the rhetoric that has accompanied it.
The unit in charge of social ills
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.11.98, 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the results of a survey of social workers and the general public to assess the impact of the Social Exclusion Unit.
Throwing caution to the wind?
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.6.98, 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines a critical Audit Commission report on juvenile justice.
Team spirit
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.6.99, 1999, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Youth offending teams are up and running, The author finds out about challenges facing the professionals who must make them work.