“Day of Caring: Feeling the value of the United Way - Jefferson City News Tribune Online” plus 4 more |
- Day of Caring: Feeling the value of the United Way - Jefferson City News Tribune Online
- Council boss in charge in Haringey during Baby P scandal stepping down - Haringey Independent
- Is the West's baby bust being busted? - Yahoo News
- PacifiCord to Offer Free Prenatal Classes in Temecula - PR Inside
- South Dade day-care center sued over sexual assaults - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
| Day of Caring: Feeling the value of the United Way - Jefferson City News Tribune Online Posted: 03 Sep 2009 12:23 PM PDT |
| Council boss in charge in Haringey during Baby P scandal stepping down - Haringey Independent Posted: 03 Sep 2009 07:15 AM PDT Council boss in charge in Haringey during Baby P scandal stepping down3:11pm Thursday 3rd September 2009 THE chief executive of Haringey Council who was in charge during the Baby P scandal has announced she is stepping down. Dr Ita O'Donovan will retire from the top post in Haringey in February next year, a job she has held since March 2006. She was in charge when Baby P, now named as Peter Connelly, died while in the care of mother Tracey Connelly, her partner Steven Barker, and his brother Jason Owens. The 17-month-old toddler has more than 50 injuries when he died in August 2007, despite being on the council's child protection register and receiving repeated visits from social workers. The council was heavily criticised for its failings in the run-up to Peter's death, and its child protection services were labelled "inadequate" by government inspectors. Dr O'Donovan reached retirement age in May, but said she stayed on "to provide stability and help put things right". In a statement today, she said: "We have taken decisive action over the last eight months and inspectors have recognised that progress has been made but much more needs to be done. "Between now and February, our focus will be on delivering the range of improvements to frontline social work already identified as necessary. "The most recent assessment of our overall performance by the government shows that, with the exception of our children's safeguarding service, the council is in good shape and we are still achieving a great deal." What do you think of Dr O'Donovan's announcement? Leave your comments below. Your sayYour Haringey Independent
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| Is the West's baby bust being busted? - Yahoo News Posted: 03 Sep 2009 01:34 PM PDT It has been long assumed that nations with rising incomes will experience a falling fertility rate and eventually a shrinking population. The standard reason? The wealthier a woman gets, the fewer children she wants. But a new study suggests such a future may become the past – implying big demographic implications for policymakers. In some rich countries, the number of children born per woman has dropped far below the 2.1 rate needed to maintain current population. In Italy, for instance, the rate is just above 1.3. To supply enough new workers, Italy would need high levels of immigration – a problem more worrisome to Italians now than a declining fertility rate. The study, published in the journal Nature, finds that the trend line linking prosperity and smaller family size may be reversing itself. In countries that attain an extremely high Human Development Index (HDI) – a United Nations metric that factors in education and income levels, along with average life spans – the fertility rate is actually going up again. Countries such as Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden are beginning to swing back toward replacement fertility levels, though a high HDI alone may not be enough to return them to population stability, let alone growth. (The US population continues to grow steadily, but largely because of immigration.) Other studies have shown that immigration plays only a modest, not decisive, role in rising fertility rates. While 18 of the 26 highest HDI countries show this reversing trend, Japan, South Korea, and Canada stand out as not fitting the pattern. Attitudes toward women, particularly in the workplace, may account for the aberration of Japan and South Korea. Canada remains a mystery. In any case, more research is needed to both confirm this study's conclusion and suggest further reasons why it happens. The study's authors – two from the University of Pennsylvania and one in Italy – speculate that high HDI countries may be more friendly to females in general, providing women with state-run childcare and giving them more opportunity for education and employment. Perhaps more women are simply affluent enough to afford their own child care (or have husbands more willing to help at home). Women who are better off and better educated may be more confident that they can take time from work for child-rearing and still be able to reenter the work force later after children enter school with little or no penalty. Environmentalists need not be alarmed by these modest upticks in population in prosperous countries. The real battle with overpopulation remains in the much more populous developing world. Poverty and political uncertainty breed larger families, perhaps – in part, at least – as unconscious insurance that at least one or two of the children will survive to adulthood and provide support for the parents. In these countries, raising the income and education standards for women has been shown to be effective in reducing family size and taming runaway population growth. Under any economic conditions, family life is something to be treasured. The joys of raising children and aspirations for higher living standards ought not to be at odds with each other. This study makes the encouraging claim that they are not.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| PacifiCord to Offer Free Prenatal Classes in Temecula - PR Inside Posted: 31 Aug 2009 08:23 AM PDT 2009-08-31 17:21:05 -
Dedicated to serving the private cord blood banking needs of Southern California, PacifiCord ( www.pacificord.com : "Temecula is a wonderful community full of young growing families," said Wendy Spry, LVN, CPSS and Healthcare Educator at PacifiCord. "When we were approached by Childish Boutique to offer our free prenatal classes in their Temecula store, the opportunity was too great to pass up. With the addition of Temecula, PacifiCord now has a local presence throughout most of Southern California."
About PacifiCord Based in Irvine, Calif., PacifiCord is part of the HealthBanks Biotech Group, which for nearly 10 years has been a leader in cord blood stem cell processing, storage and research. PacifiCord and HealthBanks Biotech were the first family banks in the world to adopt the optimum methods and technologies of the world's leading public cord blood programs, thereby setting a new standard that few other family banks can match. PacifiCord is a California state-licensed cord blood bank and an FDA-Registered Human Cell, Tissues and Cellular and Tissue-Based Products (HCT/P) Establishment. For more information about PacifiCord or to obtain a free information kit, please visit www.pacificord.com :  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| South Dade day-care center sued over sexual assaults - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Posted: 03 Sep 2009 03:26 AM PDT MIAMI-DADE COUNTY - A mother whose 5-year-old daughter was sexually abused at a South Miami-Dade day care facility last year has filed a lawsuit against the center, accusing its operators of negligence. According to the suit filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on Tuesday, Discovery Day Care Inc. should be held responsible for failing to supervise and keep safe two preschool-age children from being molested by an employee's 13-year-old son. The boy, referred to as "R.S.'' in court documents, pleaded guilty in February to two counts of battery and was sentenced to adolescent sexual behavior counseling, 100 community service hours and probation until February 2011. He also was given stay-away orders and a curfew, according to the State Attorney's Office. Court documents allege the boy, the son of the center's assistant director, forced the 5-year-old to perform oral sex on him on 10 separate occasions during mandatory nap times in early 2008. It is unclear why the teenage boy was at the center and not attending middle school at the time. When the teen attempted to force himself on a second girl during nap time, she reported it to her mother, who alerted police to the boy's actions. The family-owned center reportedly remains in operation. Employees at the facility, at 3153 SW 67th Ave., refused to open the center's doors on Wednesday. Reporters were dismissed by one employee who was speaking from behind shut window blinds. The facility's registered agent, Kathryn Baril, could not be reached for comment. Adam Horowitz, the attorney representing the molested girl's family, said the distressed mother has left South Florida since the closing of the criminal case. Now living in Tampa, the mother — whose name has been withheld by Horowitz — is seeking monetary compensation for damages. "It's turned their lives upside down,'' Horowitz said. In a statement released Wednesday, the unnamed mother said the day care center should have been shut down after the incident. "I trusted them with my baby,'' the statement reads. "Discovery Day Care betrayed me and my family. We will never by the same.'' Horowitz said the center should have prevented the teenage boy from having access to the children. "There's no excuse for 5-year-old children to be unsupervised,'' he said. "When you operate a day care center, you're the substitute parents at the time.''  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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