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Push to count ‘sleepovers’ as breaks could lead to 28-hour shifts for Australian care workers, unions warn

The Guardian

Fair Work Commission to hear case brought by business group asking for change to safety net for care industries Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A business push to count “sleepovers” as breaks in care industries could result in “nightmare” 28-hour shifts without penalty rates, unions have warned. This week the Fair Work Commission will hear a case brought by the Australian Industry Group asking it to change the safety net for care industries to clarify that hours work

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Progressive little Vermont tears apart families at a rate that would make Donald Trump proud

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The Vermont State Capitol Nationally, little attention has been paid to how family policing functions in Vermont. For whatever reason, the awful system next door in New Hampshire gets plenty of attention. But Vermont is even worse; probably the worst in New England and among the worst in the nation. Yet it goes largely under the radar. A story about foster youth getting access to their own records was a useful reminder that Vermont needs more attention – and Vermont’s leaders need to feel ashame

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A decade ago, my father suffered alone and in misery. Why do dementia sufferers still face the same fate? | Nicci Gerrard

The Guardian

Launched in the Observer, John’s Campaign aims to give frail people the right to be accompanied by those who love them Everyone has their own special way of grieving. Mine turned my life upside down. On 26 November 2014, two days after the funeral of my father, I sent a slightly unhinged email to the O bserver saying there was a piece “I want (need) to write … My very lovely and beloved father died two weeks ago, after a long and distressing time suffering from dementia.

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Killing Time by Alan Bennett review – senior moments full of wit and style

The Guardian

The author employs his pitch-perfect repertoire of satirical skills in his first book for five years – a novella about the residents of an upmarket care home during the pandemic Alan Bennett, now 90, hasn’t published anything original in book form for five years. In the meantime – the Covid years and the Johnson years and the Truss month – readers have had to be content with the peerless annual diaries he writes for the London Review of Books , yearly proof that his special ear for English comed

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