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Supporting complex care with confidence and compassion
Supporting complex care with confidence and compassion After years of working with children and youths with intellectual disabilities, senior psychologist Melody Tan Hui Shan sought deeper clinical training through NIE’s Master of Arts (Applied Psychology) to deliver more tailored care. For close to 15 years, Ms Melody Tan Hui Shan worked with young people aged seven to 18 years old at MINDS Fernvale Gardens School, providing interventions, caregiver guidance and school-based services for...
Ex-teacher jailed for sexually abusing children he was babysitting
Former WA teacher Kurt David Charlton has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for sexually abusing children while he was babysitting them. Charlton, who had a valid police clearance and a Working with Children (WWC) card at the time, had pleaded guilty to 27 charges involving nine victims, who were all under the age of 13. He will be eligible for parole after serving four-and-a-half years in jail.
Trump admin outlines who would be exempt from Medicaid work requirements
Pregnant women, parents of young children, veterans with disabilities and several other groups will be exempt from Medicaid’s new work requirements, the Trump administration said Monday. The guidance was released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, meeting a June 1 deadline under President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to explain how states should carry out the work rules. Beginning Jan. 1, many adults on Medicaid will need to work, attend school or volunteer for at least...
[Written Question] Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Eligibility
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Some families £15,000 better off than others due to different benefit rules across UK nations
Some families £15,000 better off than others due to different benefit rules across UK nations Even living just one postcode area over can cost £1,400, new report finds - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Benefit claimants in some parts of the UK could be tens of thousands of pounds better off than others despite having similar circumstances, a new report has found. An out-of-work couple with four children would have received £22,000 a year in benefit income in York, compared to £37,000 in...
Striking differences in benefit entitlements across UK countries, study finds
Scottish family on low income receives £15,000 more a year than identical household in EnglandThe emergence of “welfare nationalism” in the UK has created striking differences in benefit entitlement that result in a Scottish family on a low income receiving £15,000 a year more in state support than an identical household over the border in England. A typical out of work couple with four children would have received £22,000 a year benefit income in York, compared with £32,000 in Belfast and...
Striking differences in benefit entitlements across UK countries, study finds
Scottish family on low income receives £15,000 more a year than identical household in EnglandThe emergence of “welfare nationalism” in the UK has created striking differences in benefit entitlement that result in a Scottish family on a low income receiving £15,000 a year more in state support than an identical household over the border in England. A typical out of work couple with four children would have received £22,000 a year benefit income in York, compared with £32,000 in Belfast and...
Americans travel to Pakistan to free Christians trapped in modern-day slavery: 'God's hand was in it'
Idaho resident Aaron Hutchings arrived at a Pakistani brick factory in January. The devout Christian told Fox News Digital that he was shocked to see children turning bricks under the hot sun to work off the debts that their families had incurred, sometimes over the course of generations. Within hours of his arrival, Hutchings paid off the debts for two enslaved Christian families and escorted them to freedom, breaking the "curse that they’ve had for hundreds of years.
Worried about the next heatwave? How southern Europeans keep their homes cool without air con
I moved to Sicily from the UK - here’s what I’ve learnt about keeping your home cool during a heatwave. If you had to work indoors or be at home with small children during the record-breaking May heatwave, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Homes in northern Europe, where the heatwave struck, are built to keep the heat in, not let it out.
Russia 'to lower working age to 12 and open labour camps' in bid to solve job crisis amid Ukraine war
Russia 'to lower working age to 12 and open labour camps' in bid to solve job crisis amid Ukraine war Vladimir Putin is facing a growing economic crisis amid the hundreds of thousands of casualties in his meatgrinder war in Ukraine and some 1 million Russians who fled to avoid the draft Russia is considering lowering the working age to 12 and reopening Soviet-era labour camps in a bid to solve the country's spiralling job crisis. Olga Yaroslavskaya, the children's rights commissioner for...