A newly established union of culture workers has vowed to fight the sacking of up to 20 employees of the Georgian National Museum network this week, after the professionals held a protest in Tbilisi on Wednesday in response to the latest round of controversial dismissals from cultural institutions since the appointment of Culture Minister Thea Tsulukiani.
every one of those 536 deaths could perhaps have been avoided, but over the same period more than 300,000 children have been taken into care, and for some that may have caused serious harm. the pressures for social workers, in children s social work, are enormous. the fact that we re struggling to attract people to the profession, so there s fewer social workers, higher case load, that can mean less time to spend with families. there s still a whole load of blame around, and in that culture workers will be thinking, we have to be ultra defensive and play safe. ..and the consequence is, we may end up removing more children from their families. social workers make recommendations about what should happen to children. but the final decision to take a child into care is made by a judge or magistrate in a family court.
injury, abuse or neglect has broadly remained the same around one death a week over the last ten years. every one of those 536 deaths could perhaps have been avoided, but over the same period more than 300,000 children have been taken into care, and for some that may have caused serious harm. the pressures for social workers, in children s social work, are enormous. the fact that we re struggling to attract people to the profession, so there s fewer social workers, higher case load, that can mean less time to spend with families. there s still a whole load of blame around, and in that culture workers will be thinking, we have to be ultra defensive and play safe. ..and the consequence is, we may end up removing more children from their families.
London, Feb 1 (Prensa Latina) The British National Education Union (NEU) and the Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC) in the United Kingdom launched a project here today to collect material and monetary donations for Cuban schools.