Community News Updates

From Julian Harrison: A series of hyperlinks to stories of interest to those in the third sector.

Government
Department for Education: £500,000  scholarship scheme launched for SEN support staff

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Sport challenged to increase disability sports participation
Department of Health: School for Public Health Research launched: http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/04/schoolpubhealth/
Home Office: Home Secretary Stonewall Speech: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/speeches/stonewall-workplace-conference
Ofsted: Hearing user views of fostering and adoption services and children’s homes: http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/news/hearing-user-views-of-fostering-and-adoption-services-and-children%E2%80%99s-homes

Department of Health: Angela Rippon to kick start Prime Minister’s dementia challenge champion groups: http://mediacentre.dh.gov.uk/2012/04/26/angela-rippon-kick-start-pm-dementia-challenge-champion-groups/

Home Office: Sweeping reforms to restore British liberties: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/protection-of-freedoms

Other Organisations
Equalities and Human Rights Commission: Commission publishes research on European Court of Human Rights judgement: http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/news/2012/april/commission-publishes-research-into-european-court-of-human-rights-judgments-relating-to-uk-governmen/

Institute of Race Relations (IRR): Europe in Lockdown: Migreurop, a coalition of organisations from thirteen European, African and Middle Eastern countries, has produced an extremely useful and powerful report which describes in detail ways in which the policy of preventing the entry of undocumented migrants is implemented: http://www.irr.org.uk/news/europe-in-lockdown
Institute of Race Relations (IRR): Judge brands detention irrational, unlawful and degrading: http://www.irr.org.uk/news/judge-brands-detention-irrational-unlawful-and-degrading/

Consultation
Department of Health: Long term conditions strategy – have your say: http://longtermconditions.dh.gov.uk/have-your-say/

Media Stories
The Telegraph: 800,000 vulnerable elderly fighting to stay in their homes: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9205546/800000-vulnerable-elderly-fighting-to-stay-in-their-homes.html?CMP=EMCSOCEML657
The Guardian: Black people more likely to be jobless in Britain than US, research reveals: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/13/black-people-unemployed-britain-us
The Independent: Fewer jobs and lower pay: Black graduates pay price in jobs crisis as majority fail to find work: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fewer-jobs-and-lower-pay-black-graduates-pay-price-in-jobs-crisis-as-majority-fail-to-find-work-7669134.html

The Guardian Comment: Foreign national prisoners are the new pariahs: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2012/apr/21/foreign-national-prisoners-new-pariahs

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