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New Survey Finds that State Child Welfare Budgets May Face Perfect Storm
Washington, DC — Although child welfare spending has increased for at least a decade, several factors driven by the current recession may be converging to threaten states’ capacity to serve abused and neglected children.A new Child Trends study, Federal, State, and Local Spending to Address…
Author: Child Trends
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New care failures exposed in nursing homes
by Eilish O’Regan Trip hazards, inadequate medication records and poor infection control have been discovered in new private nursing home inspections around the country. Among those which breached regulations was Swords Nursing Home in Dublin — formerly known as Leas Cross before it was sold…
Author: Irish Independent
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Equality, data protection and human rights bodies to merge
Original Source DEAGLáN DE BRéADÚN, Political Correspondent THE GOVERNMENT is proposing to merge the Equality Authority, the Irish Human Rights Commission and the office of the Data Protection Commissioner into a single agency, The Irish Timeshas learned The agencies are being consulted and will be…
Author: The Irish Times
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Caring when it counts
Original Source by Barbara Harding DEATH is a frightening subject that few of us like to think about, never mind discuss, but it comes to us all eventually and often in an unexpected manner. Ensuring our environment offers us grace, dignity and respect in our…
Author: Irish Independent (Supplement)
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The United States and the World Since 9/11: Less Safe and Less Free
One result of the Bush Administration’s striking combination of ineptitude and contempt for law and government is a growing shelf, on its way to becoming a library, of books that chronicle and analyze the ways in which constitutional rights and international law have been assaulted…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Atlantic Philanthropies is on its way to spending itself out of existence
By Arthur Beesley John Healy seems more like a university professor than a man who has been in command of a Bermuda-based financial colossus with assets in excess of $4 billion (€3.12 billion). What is more, he is charged with giving all that money away…
Author: The Irish Times
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Harney calls for doubling of hospice spending
Republic of Ireland Excerpt: The Tánaiste and the Minister for Health has described as appalling the lack of privacy given to terminally ill patients in hospitals. Mary Harney added that spending on hospices should be doubled. Launching a study that shows the northwest area is…
Author: RTE News