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• Judgement of the Supreme Court that has an enormous impact on social care costs . Former prima ballerina Elaine McDonald yesterday lost a court battle to enter a night nurse her "the dignity and independence". They had argued that the care package her out of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea get to meet their identified needs during the day and night should include assistance in the night to use a commode, but the case was in a 4 :1-majority verdict rejected. Different judges Lady Hale has been talked about their fears that older people "left lying in feces could be" because the local authorities to withdraw the right to help. Write for our Joe Public Blog, says Age UK 's Stephen Lowe dignity must be a consideration in such cases. He writes:

"This ruling has important implications for all who rely on local authorities to remain independent, especially as councils make unprecedented cuts. If the local authorities to care and support needs on a level to maintain just the people to reduce safe, solves it limits the specter of nursing services increasingly to the bare minimum needed warehouse people in their own homes. This should certainly be in a civilized society is not acceptable. What we need is a clear statement in the legislation that the radical improvement of the defines quality of life that society believes that people should be able to achieve. "

On her Benefit Scrounging Scum blog, Kaliya Franklin says the crux of the decision lies in the questions of what we think is an acceptable way to treat older, disabled and sick people:

"The answer of the courts is to condemn us all. He says that a country that we are acceptable to our elderly, disabled to find our people leave, piss our sick people lying in their own. The whole night. Even if this person is not incontinent, and requires only a few moments the assistance of another person, their dignity and comfort guaranteed.
Is this what we want for our mothers and fathers? Is this what we want for our grandparents? For a generation that fought for our freedoms? Is this what we want for ourselves? Even if you don 't really sick or disabled people we look after all one day be old. We will all be vulnerable. We will all learn the lessons of powerlessness, it feels like for our lives in an indifferent hand. "

Franklin also pointed me to this sad story of the Scots, who reported that care claims study watchdogs that disabled residents with an assisted-living facility were invited to join the train to go to the toilet at set times to fit into a new, strict rota.

• The Royal British Legion, which has fallen as the News of the World "Campaign Partners" of the Phone hacking scandal . . A statement about the Legion \ published 's site now says it has suspended all relations with the newspaper as assertions that families were hacked to be examined by military personnel \ surviving "Phones A RBL spokesman said:

"We can't with any conscience campaign alongside News of the World on behalf of Armed Forces families while it stands accused of preying on these same families in the lowest depths of their misery. The hacking allegations have shocked us to the core."

Meanwhile, Mitsubishi has announced key advertisers, donates what it spent on advertising in the News of the World to ChildLine.

• The Afiya Trust, which today published a new report about black and ethnic children and young people 's mental health and the question of whether services meet their needs. The report 's author, Mhemooda Malek,

writes for us today:
"A brief review of relevant policies and programs shows that BME children and young people were not given due attention and concentration in policy, planning and provision of services.
There is a lack of evidence about their needs and the ability of mainstream services to provide culturally sensitive and responsive interventions and approaches. It is also unclear the extent to which national programmes and initiatives aimed at prevention and early intervention are able to engage and effectively address the needs of BME children, young people and their families."

On a related note, thanks to the broken of Britain for the exchange of link set one trailer for a really interesting sounding documentary, Coloured My Mind, for a release later this year. The film deals with "Mom warrior 'fight autism and look at inconsistencies in diagnosis and therapy in the black community.

• New research which finds that health care staff are failing to spot signs of Domestic Violence in their patients. The research by a team from the Academic Unit of Primary Health Care at the University of Bristol, is now on the 40th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Academic Primary Care in Bristol. The study found that between six and 23 and the women had experienced physical or sexual violence by a partner or former partner in the past year, and women experiencing violence were more likely to be in contact with health care than any other agency, but they were rare about domestic violence by the doctors and nurses treating them asked. One said in the interview:

"Nobody has ever asked me. Never. I 've got bruises around my neck and so stressed and never asked" what' s going on in your life? 'Or' why did you get that bruise? 'I just want to say someone, "something' s going on? 'And I would \ just sit and weep."

The women said they wanted to help their family doctors, they lead to other support services, rather than trying to persuade her to leave her abusive partner.

• Romantic Fiction, depending on the transmitter and perpetuate the agony aunt Susan Quilliam women 's idealized views Love and Sex . Writing in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, says Quilliam romantic sexual health books are contradictory messages:

"I would argue that a large number of issues that we see in our clinics and treatment centers, rooms will be influenced by romance novels. ... What we see is more influenced by Mills and Boon are considered by the Family Planning Association. Clearly this Messages run totally counter-productive to this we are trying to promote. "

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