Daily News Summary
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Main stories
Treat drug use as an illness, not a crime
The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime calls for drug use to be treated more as an illness than crime as well as reporting that there has been a decline in the worldwide production of cocaine and heroin. Gdn4, FT6
A report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime state that there are more than one million users of cocaine in Britain making it the largest market in Europe. Times17, DMail19, Sun20,DExp17, DTel8
Other stories
£1m pilot scheme to help asylum seekers out of detention and return home failed
The Children's Society has reported that the pilot scheme was mismanaged and therefore was only able to assist one family to return home. Times4, DMail13, DTel11
London children at disadvantage
Figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed that children in London have a harder start in life as they are more likely to be living in workless households than any other region. FT4, Sun23
`The return of the blood diamonds'
The leading man behind the international system, the Kimberley process, to stop the `blood diamond trade' has quit, sparking fears that the diamond trade will once again go back to its illegal past of fuelling civil wars in countries such as Zimbabwe and Venezuela. Ind1-2
Comments, editorials, letters
`Today's tragic victim, tomorrows feral brat'
Melanie Reid writes about how as a society we emote for the `BabyP's' of this word but are remarkably less sympathetic to the children who survive similar difficulties and manifest its effects later in life. Times24
`In a crisis you still can't reach a social worker'
Writes Conon Ryan. Ind4
'I worked with sex offenders because I wanted to help them, but I began suspecting every man'
Helen Fitzgerald writes about her own personal experience of working as a criminal justice social worker. Gdn G2 pg14
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