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While I am all for getting those who can work back into paid employment I wonder how for 5 hours each day you can go job hunting? How exactly are they going to monitor you for 5 hours each day? The internet? Reading newspapers ads? Looking in shop windows? Visiting the job centre? Will this [...]
David Cameron is launching a full-scale attack on fathers who abandon their families – calling for them to be “stigmatised” by society in the same way as drink-drivers are. Mr Cameron said Britain needs to be made a “genuinely hostile” place for runaway fathers, who deserve the “full force of shame heaped upon them” and [...]
Allow me to tell you about a health professional who not only changed my life but saved it. Lisa is my health visitor and has been for 6 years now. It was my health visitor who listened to my darkest fears, my parenting problems and offered advice and support on everything to do with my children. It [...]
The recent riots which broke out across England prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to say he wanted “rocket boosters” under efforts to turn round the lives of thousands of troubled families. One of the methods under scrutiny is the existing Family Intervention Project, which sees people receiving one-to-one guidance on how to raise their children, [...]
Live-in couples will not be given the same rights as those who have married, ministers ruled last night. In a victory for family campaigners, plans to give a raft of new legal entitlements to unmarried couples have been abandoned. The Law Commission proposals, published under the last Labour government, were condemned for undermining [...]
Like everyone I have watched the riots with utter dismay and contempt for those doing it. It was frightning that teenagers could rise up like that and be uncontrolled by the very people trying to protect us.I tried to listen to all sides of the spectrum as to why they chose this path and found myself [...]
I wrote a post a few days ago in relation to rumours about Facebook being closed due to its part in the riots. Rioters or vile creatures were using Facebook, Twitter & Blackberry to arrange and discuss the riots taking place on our streets.
In The Sun today Vogue Magazine is featuring a stunning new model, the problem being, this model is 10 years old. There has been a public outcry, made up in make up and looking at least five years older, is this really appropriate?
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