Thursday, December 17, 2009

A little bit from the United Kingdom: What's up?

Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) - 17 Dec 2009 13:53
Family contact is lost the longer children stay in care
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The longer children stay in care the more likely that all contacts with their parents, siblings, grandparents and friends are lost. Once children have been in care for over two years, they have much less contact with their birth family and for those who have been in care for over six years all contact is most likely to be lost.
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Scottish Government - 17 Dec 2009 13:24
Fall in Scottish unemployment figures
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Unemployment has fallen as the Scottish labour market continues to outperform the rest of the UK.
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Effective Integrated Search Strategy Delivers Better Public Services - Free White Paper
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The explosion in the availability of online information combined with the need to seamlessly access content across a mixture of internal and online resources has left many government and public sector organisations struggling to deliver a truly integrated search strategy.

In an economic climate where Government budgets are stretched and IT projects are considered to be high cost and potentially high risk it is refreshing to see that effective solutions can still be delivered, facilitating specific and targeted searching across all essential information resources.

An example of one recent initiative is Wastenet, supported by DEFRA it is a free online resource for the research community providing easy and centralised access to relevant and up-to-date information about waste and resources research.

Click on the link below to find out more and request your free white paper on Effective Integrated Search Strategies:


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Scottish Government - 17 Dec 2009 13:28
Chief Medical Officer's Annual Report
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The role of a healthy childhood in improving Scotland's future health is the focus of the Chief Medical Officer's annual report.
http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/lfi/DNWA-7YTHT9

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Scottish Government - 17 Dec 2009 13:31
Voluntary Bluetongue vaccination in 2010
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Vaccination against livestock disease Bluetongue will be voluntary in Scotland next year.
http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/lfi/DNWA-7YTHV4

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VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) - 17 Dec 2009 13:41
FOOTBALLERS UNITE TO TACKLE POVERTY
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Top footballers Emmanuel Ntamack Billa and Fabrice Muamba join forces today, Thursday 17th December 2009, to encourage people from diaspora communities to volunteer and tackle poverty in both the UK and abroad.
http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/lfi/DNWA-7YTJ3F

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Welsh Assembly Government - 17 Dec 2009 13:34
Governor Schwarzenegger tells Wales: Keep up the good work
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Climate change work by the Welsh Assembly Government was complimented by the Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger when he met Wales’ Environment Minister Jane Davidson in Copenhagen this week.

http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/lfi/DNWA-7YTHWY

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Wired-GOV Newswire (news from other departments) - 17 Dec 2009 13:18
Audit Commission - Watchdog 'names and shames' councils for late auditing of accounts
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The Audit Commission today labels 'unacceptable' the time taken by some councils to publish their audited accounts. It names the councils that have 'failed to discharge their financial reporting responsibilities properly'.
http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/lfi/DNWA-7YTHM2


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