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We understand the impact of early intervention and working with the whole family on outcomes for the child. Through our work on the Early Help/Troubled Families agenda and now through responding to the increasing focus on getting it right in Early Years we want to transform the lives of children and families, especially those that are considered vulnerable or disadvantaged.
Interface understands the complexity of the Early Years sector and the escalating demands for increased capacity alongside improved outcomes for children. We offer a wealth of flexible, bespoke and cost effective options to support you.
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Early Years professionals need to have the best knowledge and skills to work effectively to improve outcomes for children.
Our training recognises the demands of a continually changing landscape and our programmes focus on skills and strategy development, and understanding why approaches work.
Below is an outline of our training packages. A wide range of additional and bespoke packages can be developed as required, drawing on the knowledge and skills base of our team and trainers.
We receive consistently excellent feedback on our training and the credibility, warmth and understanding of our trainers.
We offer a range of options to support your service planning and delivery, analysis and assessment, evaluation and monitoring, leadership and team development.
We can provide the right skills mix to assist you in reviewing current services and practice; developing new strategies in response to policy changes at national and local level. From a one off audit of specific aspects of delivering early years services to longer term planning and interventions. Working with local authority staff, management and locality leaders as well as individual early years settings we can respond to the needs of your locality.
Support includes:
Designed specifically for those leading and managing teams working with individuals and families with both complex and emerging needs, this course covers the fundamental areas that equip participants to be effective leaders in the current demanding environment.Read more
The course will equip workers with the understanding, ability and confidence to go out and work effectively with children, individuals and families with complex and multiple needs.Read more
We have developed a range of tools and training to support schools work with vulnerable children and families...Read more
We have developed this course which we believe accurately meets the current workforce needs and is right up to date with current thinking and practice...Read more
The course will equip workers with the understanding, ability and confidence to go out and work effectively with children, individuals and families with complex and multiple needs...Read more
We understand the complexity of the Early Years sector and the escalating demands for increased capacity alongside improved outcomes for children. We offer a wealth of flexible, bespoke and cost effective options to support you-read more...Read more
We pride ourselves on our deep understanding of the workforce combined with the credibility of our trainers in their respective fields - read more about what training we offer...Read more
To support housing providers and local authorities with statutory homelessness duties we have developed a range of tools, training and support packages. We provide a range of tools, training and support packages to meet your needs - read more...Read more
We are a national provider of consultancy support for those working with vulnerable individuals and families. We aim to enhance capacity and expertise on a local level, focusing on priority areas of service delivery.Read more
We are national leading experts in Early Help and the Troubled Families agenda – see the wide range bespoke support that we can provide.Read more
A programme tailored to individual needs, helping leaders get under the skin of what leadership is about.Read more
Our full range of consultancy support and training for childrens servicesRead more
Support options available for schools working with vulnerable children / familiesRead more
Support options available for the Schools' Vulnerable Children Audit ToolRead more
We were commissioned to provide a 3-day leadership programme for school leaders across Bracknell Forest and Reading who were new to senior leadership/heads and aspiring head teachers.Read more
We worked with an integrated workforce, who delivered early intervention to children and young people and their families as part of a pilot programme.Read more
LB of Tower Hamlets wanted to embed an accredited program into their whole family working framework. This training was to coincide with changes in the authority and a will of LBTH to invest in their staff.Read more
Barnsley were looking for a training provider to support their recent restructure to whole family working and implementation of its Family Support offer in both the Early Help and Troubled Families agenda.Read more
Interface worked with Haringey Early Help Executive group members to develop a 3 module training programme for front line staff and those involved in the wider early help offer. The package of support was to integrate the new Early help workflow in to practice and embrace the culture change that this would bring. This bespoke course was delivered over 40 training days.Read more
Cheshire West and Chester have a strong internal whole family working vision and agenda and were looking for a training organisation to support with further implementation and training for its wider partners.Read more
Berneslai Homes runs a large Family Intervention Service. We supported the team through the use of Motivational Interviewing.Read more
Brent Council and their VCS partners (BANG and Barnados) attended training on motivational interviewing.Read more
We were successful in providing a large contract of Motivational Interviewing for family safeguarding teams across Hertfordshire.Read more
Halton Borough Council is in the process of further developing and implementing an integrated multi-agency approach to supporting children, young people, families and vulnerable adults across the continuum from Early Intervention to statutory safeguarding services.Read more
We were commissioned to provide an independent evaluation of the Adults with Complex Needs Service.Read more
We were commissioned to provide training for WSCC Staff dealing with customers on a regular basis who have complex issues around drug addiction/alcoholism and mental health.Read more
West London Zone is inspired by the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a 'cradle-to-college' pipeline of support for children. The HCZ approach is to do 'whatever it takes' to help young people escape generational disadvantage – with the ambition to achieve a 'tipping point' whereby the whole community has a positive experience of learning, work and family life.Read more
Cheshire West and Chester had internally provided introductory Team around the Family training sessions to ensure that processes and responsibilities were clear.Read more
Darlington City Council are focussed on developing a whole council approach to the new responsibilities created by the Children and Families Act and the Care Act to consider the needs of the whole family, delivery of coordinated packages of support and the protection of children and young people from excessive or inappropriate caring roles.Read more
We are working with Catalyst, a voluntary sector partner to develop and deliver part of a culture change training programme.Read more
Warrington Borough Council has implemented an integrated multi-agency approach to supporting children, young people, families and vulnerable adults across the continuum from Early Intervention to statutory safeguarding services.Read more
Halton Borough Council is in the process of developing and implementing an integrated multi-agency approach to supporting children, young people, families and vulnerable adults across the continuum from Early Intervention to statutory safeguarding services.Read more
Stockton Council have developed 'A Fairer Start' ethos and philosophy that aims to ensure that every child has the best start.Read more
We are delighted to be working with the Early Help team in Central Bedfordshire to support them and increase their understanding around parental Capacity to Change.Read more
We are delighted to be working with Northern Ireland HSCB Early Intervention Social Worker teams - providing the Capacity to Change Programme developed by the The University of Bristol.Read more
We worked with the senior management team of a LA in the East to develop a bespoke programme for frontline managers, senior practitioners and their team members to target areas of weak practice and improve performanceRead more
Raising awareness about Mental Health and the impact of mental health issues on families is a key objective of Cheshire West and Chester local authority.Read more
Darlington required a number of voluntary and statutory partners within the borough to become more aware of the concept of whole family working in line with the Care Act 2014.Read more
This four day course facilitated the learning of 50 professionals from family support back grounds who were introducing a new early help support package within the borough.Read more
Tower hamlets commissioned Interface to run this brand new accredited course following our delivery of 4 previous city and guilds accredited courses.Read more
Camden Council were looking for a training provider that could help embed their 'Resilient Families' Early Help agenda to a large number of multi-agency staff. We delivered a series of one-day introductory sessions to multi-agency professionals to raise awareness following the restructure of the Early Help offer for families in the borough.Read more
Interface provided a one-day training session aimed at Children Social Care Social Workers to increase the quality of written assessments for newly appointed and existing staff.Read more
Catch 22 identified that they wanted to provide evidenced-based training for their front-line staff to increase their engagement levels with young people and facilitate positive change through each face-to-face interaction.Read more
We carried an evaluation of the Yorkshire Urban and Rural Social Work Teaching Partnership. The partnership consists of four local authorities and two universities:Read more
Bracknell Forest Council worked in partnership with Hertfordshire County Council having received innovation funding from the Department for Education (DfE) to test out new and innovative ways of working across family safeguarding teams. Using Motivational interviewing approaches is core to their family safeguarding program.Read more
Interface delivered a one-day practice-based program to staff form a range of disciplines, including nursery, children's social care, school and youth support.Read more
Following a successful delivery of 4 Level 4 accredited programs to multi agency staff in the LB Tower Hamlets we were approached by Workpath to deliver a bespoke program to meet the needs of their workforce.Read more
Interface delivered a one-day practice-based program to a range of staff in Brighton and Hove. The authority was looking for a skills-based program that would deliver a course to meet the needs of multi-disciplinary staff to update their knowledge including the latest research on brain development and offer practice examples to input and improve their interventions and practice.Read more
LB of Hounslow were undergoing a restructure of their wider early help service and offer. The 4 day skills based training was offered to staff working in their targeted youth service, children's centre's and family support service. The training supported the new thinking and allowed staff to consider the changes in Hounslow, what was working well and recommendations for feedback to service managers.Read more
We were commissioned to provide support for school leaders across Bracknell Forest around holding motivational conversations. This is a powerful technique in bringing about behaviour change and
Interface helps Goldington to achieve 'good' rating following support from Interface ...Read more
Sefton needed to increase the proportion of children in Sefton who are "school ready" enabling parents to give them the best possible start in life. See how Interface supported them...Read more
Cambridgeshire were looking for a training provider that could implement its 'Think Family' agenda to a large number of multi-agency staff over a 5 module structure...Read more
Following a successful 2 day supervision training a further need was identified for individual team training to embed good practice following the team induction process...Read more
Interface supported Sefton to consider the effectiveness of current Early Years and childcare provision at a strategic and operational level...Read more
Interface provides a 2 day bespoke practical programme for managers responsible for providing supervision...Read more
Interface provides an in-depth programme for school staff working directly with cases who are subject to or at risk of being subject to a child protection plan...Read more
Haringey Children's Services were seeking to embed their new Early Help Framework approach to provide early help and support to families and children. This is the approach Interface adopted to meet our client's needs...Read more
Bracknell Forest Council has a strategic priority to build volunteering and improve community resilience. They are keen to build and support communities that can help themselves through the increased use of volunteers.Read more
Great Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC) and partners were successful in acquiring funding from DCLG as part of the Delivering Differently in Communities programme.Read more
Sir Michael Wilshaw has written to the Secretary of State for Education raising concerns from his inspectors working in the area of child safety.Read more
Our Director, Wendy Weal presents at the recent Community Care Live conference in Birmingham. It is the largest free social care event featuring popular innovations.Read more
Multi-academy trusts (MATs) are discriminating against children with special educational needs (SEN) by excluding disproportionate numbers.Read more
Chief children's social worker Isabelle Trowler has been criticised for failing to give the post a high enough media or public profile.Read more
Youth offending teams (YOT) have had their funding slashed by a further £9m, it has emerged.Read more
Please listen to the recent Webinar to hear tips from experts about what to consider in research and evaluation.Read more
See the recent Wood report on a review of the role and functions of Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) within the context of local strategic multi-agency working.Read more
Interface are delighted with the excellent report by The Rt. Hon. the Lord Laming CBE DL examining how the life chances of children in care can be transformed by protecting them from unnecessary involvement in the criminal justice system.Read more
NSPCC has launched a campaign to improve mental health provision for looked-after children under five.Read more
Proposed changes to Local Authority Safeguarding Arrangements.Read more
Dentists are warning of a "crisis" in child dental after new figures revealed that thousands of children in England had to have decaying teeth removed last year.Read more
Interface are delighted to have been successful in being selected to provide a culture change training programme for A Fairer Start programme in Stockton.Read more
A serious case review criticised the family courts for their role.Read more
See the NSPCC report which compiles and analyses the most robust and up-to-date child protection data that exists for 2016.Read more
Aiming to lower social worker caseloads by employing 132 members by 2021.Read more
Projects aimed at improving the life chances of vulnerable children and young people could gain a share of a new £80m government fund that links payments to improved outcomes.Read more
Sir Martin Narey's independent review of children's residential has been published.Read more
A report by 'The Early Intervention Foundation'.Read more
The chief social worker for children speaks outRead more
Around 20 per cent of children's social workers taking part in a trial of a controversial accreditation system did not pass, it has emerged.Read more
Ofsted Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has asked the government for more powers to monitor councils where children's safety is at risk.Read more
The government is to undertake a national "stocktake" of fostering in order to understand how the system can be improved.Read more
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is calling all health professionals to do more to listen to children.Read more
The Sutton Trust have published a report on the impact of academy chains on low-income students.Read more
This consultation outlines options for reform of the child protection system in England, specifically in relation to reporting and acting on child abuse and neglect.Read more
The chief of the Institute of Health Visiting (IHV) has warned ministers against ditching the five checks health visitors are currently required to carry out on children up to two-and-a-half years old.Read more
A report by the University of Bedfordshire outlines the need for policies to support workforce.
Andrew Selous, a conservative MP has asked the government to provide funding to help local authorities across England turn children's centres into "family centres"Read more
Multi-agency inspections of how services work together to protect children within local authority areas will from next month focus on the quality of support for children living with domestic abuse, Ofsted has said.Read more
Understanding the links between poverty, interparental relationships, and children's social and emotional skills.Read more
The number of children and young people in contact with mental health services is on the rise, with an increase of 6,905 in the space of two months.Read more
A total of £1.5m has been set aside by government to fund "innovative" projects that work to prevent young people from being radicalised, it has been announced.Read more
The Local Government Association (LGA) said money earmarked for education in England is too often "disappearing into the back pockets of those in charge" and they are asking to be given powers to monitor the way academies spend government cash to ensure pupils do not miss out on vital funding.Read more
Ofsted's Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, spoke at the London Councils education summit in central London.Read more
The DfE have announced a programme to retrain social workers who have left the profession.Read more
Government will award a total of £1.5m to fund "innovative" projects which will help to prevent young people from being radicalisedRead more
Since 2011 the Department for Education grant scheme handed out more than £200m to children's charities. This has now been cut to just £2.25m for the 18-month period up to April 2018Read more
Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to allow schools to choose pupils according to their capabilities.Read more
Leaders call for council to be given more control to crack down on illegal schools and monitor home schooling.Read more
The Family and Childcare Trust has completed their analysis on how funding of free early education and childcare for three and four year olds. Findings highlight that the formula does not prioritise those areas that most need to boost childcare places.Read more
Children's Society study reports on how low well-being and poor mental health are linked to poverty and debt.Read more
A plea from Chief children's social worker for England who is asking for greater involvement in supporting families in early helpRead more
Labour will launch an early years taskforce in a bid to transform early years provision for families.Read more
Education committee launched an inquiry into how primary school reforms impacted teaching and learning.Read more
The government is to give £1m to trial a "new approach" to boost social mobility in six councils across England. They will be Blackpool, Derby City and Oldham, Norwich, Scarborough and West Somerset.Read more
Conservative MP John Glen called for more integrated working between agencies to improve the life chances of children.Read more
Inspectors found a large variation in police responses to CSE.Read more
The NIESR's analysis unable to find consistent evidence that the Troubled Family Programme had any significant or systematic impact.Read more
Justine Greening has announced that there will be no change to legislation made for the government to achieve its ambition of getting schools to convert to academy status voluntarily.Read more
Research shows that 49% of teenage boys in the UK would not feel comfortable talking to their dads about their mental health.Read more
9/10 social workers think planned reform do not tackle main concerns facing profession.Read more
A new online mental health toolkit aimed at staff and students in schools.Read more
Education Secretary confirms Early Years Foundation Stage profile to remain in place for the moment.Read more
In September 2015 the then Secretary of State for Justice commissioned a departmental review, supported by external expertise... read more...Read more
Children Commissioner's appeal to government to support family hubsRead more
A study by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) found that eating breakfast, or just attending a club, improves academic performance in maths and English of pupils aged six and seven in just two months.Read more
A £24m programme to improve gaps in mental health treatment for young offenders.Read more
An estimated 80,000 children each year witness home raids when a parent or family member is arrested but do not receive sufficient support afterwards.Read more
Children's service leaders are supporting Edward Timpson's idea of a new professional body for social work which to be supported by the government.Read more
Councils should be forced to outsource children's services including child protection work in an effort to improve standardsRead more
The government has responded to consultation stating that every council will receive a minimum funding rate of £4.30 per hour to cover the cost of childcare places for three- and four-year-olds.Read more
The chair of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) has urged the government to ensure that councils to keep youth offending teams (YOTs) as part of any reforms to the youth justice system.Read more
ADCS Safeguarding Pressures research has provided evidence of trends in safeguarding activity and the provision of services to children and their families based on information from local authorities in five phases spanning 2007/8 to 2015/16.Read more
Increasing numbers of children have been let down in 2016.Read more
The DfE have announced who has been successful to receive £11m of innovation funding.Read more
The long-awaited government strategy to boost the life chances of the poorest children in the country has been dropped and will not be published.Read more
The two organisations agreed to share information about complaints which in turn will help drive improvements in children's services.Read more
The cross-departmental child poverty unit to help reduce child poverty has been scrapped. The functions will now be included into the wider remit of DWP.Read more
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) is to fund around 25 local authorities to develop new ways to deliver services at neighbourhood level, working with local people and organisations to find "innovative" solutions to local problems.Read more
The DfE has indicated that the Children's Centres consultation is still going ahead, despite the life chances strategy being dropped.Read more
An announcement by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Cabinet Office encourages bids from Early Years organisations.Read more
Ahead of his appointment as ADCS vice president Dave Hill, (Essex County Council) said the tipping point, whereby there are fewer "pure" DCSs than twin hatters has been reached.Read more
Theresa May announces that a review will be carried out on the children and young people's mental health services urging an improvement in this area to be a priority.Read more
Government has set up a £50m grant scheme to create 9,000 more childcare places and to help government deliver it's free childcare pledge.Read more
Research by the London School of Economics (LSE), Manchester University and York University found that poverty has increased since the coalition government came to power in 2010, and predicted it will get worse in the next five years.Read more
The Fostering Network has collated the views of foster carers through their State of the Nation survey. They found that ¾ of looked after children in the UK are cared for by foster families, meaning that improving the outcomes for children in care must start with improving foster care.Read more
In the past year 74% of colleges in England had sent students experiencing mental health issues to A&E.Read more
The Ministry of Justice has been criticised for its "weak" response to a major review of youth justice.Read more
Seven local authorities are to test new arrangements for providing additional support to disadvantaged three- and four-year-olds in early education.Read more
Over half of children's services departments assessed under Ofsted's single inspection framework have been rated in the bottom two grades, with nearly half inspected so far seeing a fall in their judgement compared with previous performance.Read more
Social workers in Hertfordshire will be trained in advanced psychological counselling techniques in new cutting-edge project.Read more
Children's social workers will be able to start taking exams to achieve accredited status from November.Read more
In summer 2015, NHS England and the Department for Education (DfE) jointly launched the Mental Health Services and Schools Link Pilots.Read more
A new report from The Communication Trust presents the findings of consultation with the children and young people's workforce.Read more
The prisons and courts bill will give governors control over their budgets for education, employment and health and introduce a new system of league tables and performance standards.Read more
Average social work caseloads vary by in excess of 20 cases in different parts of England, new statistics published for the first time today show.Read more
A £40m package of measures to help tackle sexual abuse and child trafficking has been announced by the Home Secretary Amber Rudd.Read more
Sex and relationships education (SRE) will be made compulsory in all secondary schools. However, parents will continue to have a right to withdraw their children from sex education.Read more
Leeds Council has been awarded £9.6m from the Department for Education's innovation fund.Read more
ADCS welcomes government efforts to improve the quality and confidence of the children and family social work workforce.Read more
Tom Bennett (appointed in 2015 to advise the government on behaviour in schools) has call on the government to fund schools to create internal inclusion units to offer targeted early specialist intervention for children with behavioural problems.Read more
An anaysis by EIF (Early Invention Foundation) shows children from less well-off families are more likely to experience emotional and behavioural problems at age 5 and do less well academically at age 10-16.Read more
Government criticised by Members of the Health Select Committee.Read more
Government aims to train more than 3,000 new social workers through fast-track schemes.Read more
The government has announced that £30m will be spent to increase the life chances of children in disadvantaged families by resolving conflict among parents.Read more
A newly released report contains findings from the baseline survey of families.Read more
Concerns at the high number of looked-after children are being moved about.Read more
The government body responsible for public health, Public Health England (PHE) has said that it will ensure that local authorities fulfil their duty to provide health visitor checks for young children.Read more
Fall in the number of placement orders granted by courts in England.Read more
The Sutton Trust surveyed 1,361 teachers in its annual teacher polling through the National Foundation for Educational Research Teacher Voice Omnibus survey, highlighting how budget cuts are affecting schools across the country.Read more
The Association of Directors of Children's Services Ltd (ADCS) welcomes the opportunity respond to the draft of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) child abuse and neglect guideline.Read more
Family Education Trust reports on findings of serious case reviews and independent inquiry looking at reasons why abuse of young people was not picked up by professionals.Read more
The EIF Guidebook provides information about early intervention programmes that have been evaluated and shown to improve outcomes for children and young people.Read more
This overview summarises outputs from the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) about why action to tackle inter-parental conflict matters for children and families who are in or at risk of poverty.Read more
A "root and branch" review that will look into legislation, practices, culture and ethos of the children's care system in Scotland has launched.Read more
There has been a record increase in the number of children receiving additional support for special educational needs (SEN), with the figure rising by more than 30,000 in a single year.Read more
A recent strategy aiming to give children and young people a chance to have a voice and with the help of the Youth Justice Board as well as the Beyond Youth Custody programme it will consider the implications for work with young people leaving custody.Read more
New analysis from the Children's Commissioner reveals a host of shocking statistics.Read more
School and college staff in England have concerns that the government anti-radicalisation strategy is increasing stigmatisation of Muslim students, research has found.Read more
More needs to be done to identify young people with substance abuse issues and address the underlying issues, two charities have said.Read more
A report on maternal obesity by the All Parliamentary Party Group (APPG) on Fit and Healthy Childhood needs to be revised.Read more
The ''Time for Change report by the Social Mobility Commission calls for a substantial investment in early years education for disadvantaged children.Read more
Growth of academies could seriously impact of the policy introduced by the Government in 2010.Read more
EIF has published a summary report of key findings and interventions to be effective in improving outcomes for vulnerable children.Read more
A DfE funded social care initiative has been evaluated by Dartington Social Research Unit and found to have "the potential to support many vulnerable families at low cost including a significant proportion of those children that were on the edge of the care system".Read more
Signs of Safety approach to child protection found improved social work practice.Read more
A recent report has set out the findings of a small-scale study undertaken by Cafcass, with Women's Aid, looking at domestic abuse allegations in 216 child contact cases.Read more
A report published by Play England explores how local, resident-led street play initiatives and programmes are being taken forward in disadvantaged areas of England, in response to concerns about the decline in children's opportunities for outdoor play.Read more
The NHS has announced plans to recruit and train an additional 2,000 nurses, therapists and qualified clinicians to work in CAMHS.Read more
The DfE provided funding for innovation in Hertfordshire for the setting up of Family Safeguarding teams.Read more
A multi-agency hub bringing together social workers, police and health professionals has helped convict 18 members of a child sex abuse ring.Read more
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced more than £20m in funding over three years to help combat the online grooming of children.Read more
Councils are overspending on their children's social care budgets by more than £600m a year as they look to protect vulnerable groups amid cuts in central government funding, council leaders are warning.Read more
The DfE have published a report of the findings from the first wave of the new Children's Services Omnibus Survey.Read more
Losing in the Long Run report, produced by Action for Children, calls for renewed commitment from the Government.Read more
A research report by the University of Manchester looks the services offered by local authorities and the reasons why some children are referred multiple times.Read more
A new report suggests the reshaping of services is needed.Read more
Buckinghamshire County Council to set up a new 0-19 children and families service.Read more
A personal critique of Ofsted methodology and the implementation of the Single Inspection Framework for Local Authority Children's Services in Stockport.Read more
MPs and Peers have worked together to support the Government in delivering policies aimed at strengthening families, as part of its wider ambition for social reform.Read more
Research by the leading UK's children's charity Barnardos suggests that nearly half of England's care leavers may be suffering with mental health problems.Read more
An influential group of MPs that probes government policy on children and young people will focus on the issues of social justice and productivity over the term of the current parliament, it has been announced.Read more
A decision was made by Justine Greening, Education Secretary, following an Ofsted report found that Tower Hamlets Council was failing to perform.Read more
Croydon Council and charity OnSide Youth Zones have been granted planning permission to build a £6m youth centre, due to be completed in 2018.Read more
An alliance of early years leaders, academics and charities is recommending to the government to ensure a qualified early years teacher leads all nurseries in deprived areas within the next three years.Read more
It is expected that all four and five year olds will sit baseline tests on entering reception.Read more
A leading committee group of MP's who explore and challenge government's policy on children and young people will be focusing on matters surrounding social justice and productivity.Read more
A report has been issues by OFSTED which is about the second joint targeted area inspection programme, which began in September 2016 and which examined 'the multi-agency response to children living with domestic abuse'.Read more
A further fall in spending by £112m in a year on early years services.Read more
The Pause Project is due to expand further after a funding boost from the lottery funding.Read more
The Department for Education has set aside up to £20m to encourage councils to support each other to improve children's services standards.Read more
A prison officer graduate recruitment scheme is targeting social workers and teachers looking for a change of career.Read more
For the first time there is a website created which brings together both new and already published official data on racial disparity in one place for the first time.Read more
A report called 'Making the Difference' addresses why teachers should be provided with skills to support pupils who are at risk of being excluded.Read more
The DfE seeking to boost children and young people's life chances in 12 English districts that score poorly on social mobility.Read more
A review into the treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in the Criminal Justice System.Read more
Early language acquisition impacts on all aspects of young children's non-physical developmentRead more
The Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield sets out the shockingly poor support children with mental health services are receiving from the NHS.Read more
A position paper prepared by ADCS (The Association of Directors of Children's Services Ltd) explores the impact of different initiatives and policies on children's lives and outcomes.Read more
DfE commissions report into the fostering systemRead more
Ministry of Justice welcomes Lord Farmer's recommendations to strengthen family ties to help offenders turn their lives around and protect public safety.Read more
Three-quarters of looked after children in the UK are being cared for by foster families. A recent survey was conducted by The Fostering Network.Read more
Investment in victim and witness waiting room in courts.Read more
The Department for Education-commissioned a report into the fostering system.Read more
The Active in Mind project launches this month to improve children's mental health and will be evaluated, and its successes shared, by academics at Leeds Beckett University.Read more
This Guide is a practical planning tool to support local commissioners and leaders of services for children and families to reduce the impact of conflict between parents on children.Read more
Police figures reveal almost 30,000 cases which included 2,625 alleged offences on school premises in the last four years.Read more
The EIF (Early Intervention Foundation) has published a guide which summarises evidence to support families with complex needs in priority areas such as parenting.Read more
There are over 6,000 children who spend much of their childhood in residential special schools and colleges. A review of the experiences and outcomes of children and young people in residential special schools and colleges has now taken place.Read more
The NSPCC has been running a new antenatal programme for vulnerable parents called Baby Steps, which aims to support mothers and fathers during pregnancy and in the weeks after birth.Read more
The Department for Education has published a model form and letter to help providers of early years education identify which children are eligible for the early years pupil premium.Read more
Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation have announced that "short, sharp, targeted" joint inspections of children's services will start later in the year.Read more
A House of Lords Committee on Affordable Childcare is calling for a radical rethink in childcare funding to ensure disadvantaged children are prioritised.Read more
Over the past year, less than a quarter of local authority children's departments inspected by Ofsted were found to be issuing effective social care services.Read more
Schools are being encouraged to boycott new tests for children entering reception classes.Read more
Early years groups have said that government moves to make schools publish details of their own childcare provision alongside their academic results is an attempt to prioritise school-based early education over that provided by the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sector.Read more
A joint policy paper published by the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), the Local Government Association (LGA) and council chief executive's group Solace, recommends Ofsted's single inspection framework is "stood down" because it is "no longer fit for purpose" as it fails to assess the involvement of other agencies and places too great a burden on departments.Read more
The new president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has vowed to make the extension of support rights for children in residential care a key goal of her time in office.Read more
Injuries to children and young people recorded by health services in England and Wales fell 18% in 2014 according to research by Cardiff University...Read more
As part of a project jointly managed by the Carers Trust and The Children's Society, called the Young Carers in Schools Programme, schools will be able to sign up to receive guidance and tips on how to support young carers...Read more
The government is to fast-track legislation to double free universal childcare entitlement...read moreRead more
A strong early years sector needs a robust, reliable inspection framework...read more...Read more
Extending the free childcare offer without first addressing these funding gaps will only exacerbate this problem further...read more...Read more
We do not have sufficient high-quality information about what is happening to the health of our children...read more...Read more
Care leavers in England are asking the Government for help with employment, training and housing, and for continued support beyond the current age of 21...Read more
Effective Supervision, Skills to Work Effectively with Complex Families and Child Sexual Exploitation are training events happening across the UK between September and October 2015...read more...Read more
London Staff support/Supervision Training 23-24th November 2015...Read more
Newcastle Staff support/Supervision Training 19-20th October 2015...Read more
Birmingham Staff support/Supervision Training 19-20th October 2015...Read more
Early years inspections to be in-house
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has told MPs he is "committed" to bringing early years inspections in-house.
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Increase in radicalisation cases in family courts
Increasing numbers of cases involving children whose parents are planning to travel to areas of Syria controlled by Islamic State are coming before family courts, the country's top family judge has warned.
Health visitor funding boost
Disadvantaged areas will receive additional funding to carry out their new public health responsibilities under proposals to make the system fairer.
MPs call for urgent changes to pupil premium
More needs to be done to ensure the pupil premium improves outcomes for disadvantaged children, a group of MPs has said.
Concerns over school childcare provision plans
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said parents in England will be given the right to request schools provide childcare for the full working day during term time and in the holidays. But the childcare sector has voiced concerns about the plans.
Transfer of public health services for under-fives
Parents will see "massive benefits" for their children as a result of responsibility for public health services for under-fives transferring to local authorities, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said.
SEND inspections from May 2016
Local public services are to be assessed on how well they fulfil their responsibilities to children with special educational needs and disability (SEND).
More five-year-olds achieve good level of development.
The DfE state that more five-year-olds are reaching expected levels of development than ever before. The early years foundation stage profile results shows improving attainment for children in early years settings with the number of children who achieved a good level of development increasing by 5.9% over the last year.
Charities demand government strategy for children of prisonersRead more
We are proud to announce the launch of our new Level 4 training programme - Working with vulnerable children, individuals and families.Read more
The Early Intervention Foundation have published reports which state that children and young people may be at risk of gang involvement or violent lifestyles can be identified in children as young as seven.Read more
Government and local authorities must do more to find "innovative" ways to deliver a full range of children's centres services... read more...Read more
The government has pledged £300m to improve funding for early years providers... read more...Read more
We are proud to announce the launch of our new Level 4 training programme - Working with vulnerable children, individuals and families. This includes a recent webinar recording - so be sure to read more...Read more
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Every school will be forced to use internet filters and teach children about online safety under government plans to better protect pupils from exploitation and radicalisation.Read more
Prime Minister David Cameron said that families are the "best anti-poverty measure ever invented"... read more...Read more
Six local authorities are to receive a share of £200,000 in government funding to test out alternative ways of providing youth services... read more...Read more
The DfE have confirmed that a consultation on the future of children's centres has been delayed... read more...Read more
Joint inspections of health, social care and criminal justice services for vulnerable children and young people will launch in February... read more...Read more
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has announced an additional £200m investment in the adoption system... read more...Read more
We are delighted that MP Tim Loughton has endorsed our new Level 4 training 'Working with vulnerable children, individuals and families' programme.He has also agreed to write a foreword for the comprehensive learner recourse explaining to learners how valuable their role is in transforming the lives of vulnerable families.Read more
The government will continue to fund the British Youth Council (BYC) to support its Youth Voice initiative until 2020.Read more
LGA's Roy Perry says the improvement agenda in children's services should be led by councils instead of the government threatening to parachute in outside experts and set up independent trusts to oversee children's social care.Read more
Bracknell Forest Council has a strategic priority to build volunteering and improve community resilience. They are keen to build and support communities that can help themselves through the increased use of volunteers.Read more
Great Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC) and partners were successful in acquiring funding from DCLG as part of the Delivering Differently in Communities programme.Read more
Suffolk Council praised for outstanding work with children in careRead more
Interface are delighted to be providing Effective Staff Support and Supervision Training for a group of schools in Coventry.Read more
Read more about a new programme designed to equip workers with the understanding, ability and confidence to go out and work effectively with children, individuals and families.Read more
This Annual brings together different perspectives on success and collaborative working for parental mental health and child welfare professionals.
Our own Wendy Weal has a section (Chapter 11 p75-77) on the schools vulnerability tool.
The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned that Ofsted's current arrangements for inspecting children's services paint an unfair picture of a local authority area's efforts to protect vulnerable children, only assessing council performance and failing to consider the contribution of other agencies.Read more
Several influential early years figures are among more than 2,000 people to sign a petition against plans to introduce new testing arrangements for children in reception classes.Read more
Simon Bailey, chief constable of Norfolk Police and the Association of Chief Police Officer's lead on child protection and abuse investigations, said that failures to share information and work together are hindering attempts by police and children's social services to tackle child sexual exploitation.Read more
A Commons home affairs committee report on mental health illness within the criminal justice system is highly critical of the continued use of police cells for children and young people experiencing a mental health crisis and lack of available alternative places of safety.Read more
More than 60 teaching schools across the country will partner up with local nurseries in an effort to improve the quality of early years education for young children.Read more
Both Halton Borough Council, in the north west, and Hull City Council, in East Yorkshire, were given a "requires improvement" grading after being inspected in November.Read more
From April, early years providers delivering free hours to disadvantaged three- and four-year-olds will be able to share £50m in EYPP funding. The DfE expect councils to use the money on work such as telling local providers about the premium and upgrading IT systems.Read more
We are delighted to be carrying out an evaluation of the operational, strategic and cost effectiveness of Islington's Early Help Family Support Services.Read more
"The Troubled Families programme needs to work with early years practitioners and organisations", according to our Early Years Lead Maureen Longley.Read more
A study by the National Children's Bureau (NCB) of five areas piloting health checks and early years progress when a child reaches 24 to 30 months, found that joint assessment of young children's health and developmental needs improves information sharing by staff and ensures early help is put in place as well as being effective in identifying hard-to-reach children and engaging their parents in services.Read more
A study by the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) found that numbers of calls to councils about the safety and wellbeing of children have increased by nearly 12% cent in a single year.Read more
It is excellent to be working with an area where the commitment to the transformation of whole family work in East Sussex was embedded strategically prior to the influence of the national Troubled Families (TF) Programme.Read more
Promoting, protecting and improving our children and young people's mental health
and wellbeing.
A review on Early Intervention by Graham Allen MP,
The Early Intervention Review Team
A review of recent evidence into children and young people's mental health.Read more
This document is an update on a project which built on a portfolio of work which PwC has undertaken with the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners over the past 2 years to help develop a deeper understanding of the parenting workforce.
A research paper by Carole Sutton (De Montfort University), David Utting (Joseph Rowntree Foundation), David Farrington (University of Cambridge) on the importance of working with younger children and families to reduce risks of crime and anti-social behaviour.Read more
Research carried out by London Economics for the Department for Children, Schools and FamiliesRead more
"We approached Interface to discuss the delivery of their Supervision training in-house for our organisation. Their proposed solution allowed for us to tailor the training to exactly meet our needs. The trainers delivery was engaging and inclusive. She used lots of relevant and practical examples imparting her extensive knowledge. Delegates left the training with specific individual plans which should have a positive impact on their practice of supervision.Wendy Such (Parenting Coordinator, Bracknell Forest)
"It really has been an absolute pleasure to know you! I love your teaching style and cannot express how much I got out of the sessions. It was a therapeutic and extremely positive experience. I feel it will benefit my practise/ approaches with families so very much. I actually did not want it to end!Level 4 Course, Tower Hamlets
"The trainer was very professional, timely and efficient – she was clearly experienced and confident.
All workers who attended benefited from the mixture of information giving / role play / & handouts to read and absorb once the training was finished. Following the training staff felt more familiar with the principles and the basics of MI conversations.
We would recommend Interface to other organisations.
"The Interface team were excellent to work with - professional, skilled, knowledgeable with great communication skills. The staff consulted with us really well and adapted any areas where necessary to give the training a localised feel.
The sessions were really informative and offered inter-disciplinary professionals the chance to share ideas and talk about any barriers in a safe environment. Celebrating success was key throughout and staff really enjoyed the group sessions as well as learning from them.
We offered this to staff who were or were prepared to be CAF Lead Professional in order to boost their confidence and skills. I would offer this to others if the opportunity arises in the future and would recommend it to other areas.
"Thank you! The trainer was extremely knowledgeable, the course was really useful to me and I learnt a great deal that will be of use.Ashmead Primary School Teacher
"Interface were very flexible in meeting our organisation's needs. The trainer's style was particularly effective in holding, supporting and gently challenging staff during a period of significant change and subsequent uncertainty. Her training style is clear, warm, appropriately challenging and encourages reflection. She has fed back regularly to managers on any wider issues that have been raised during the training and that we should be considering which is particularly helpful. Feedback from participants has been consistently positive about the quality of the delivery of the training.Kirsten Carr, Early Help Transformation and Impact Manager (London Borough of Haringey)


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TRE's and TOC's readers, and other S'porean netizens may not realise it, but Temasek doesn't always lose money on its overseas investments.
In 2008, just before the financial crisis, Temasek sold its majority stake in BII for a price that put a value of the Indonesia bank of 4.6 times book value. The
sucker buyer was MayBank of M'sia. It paid Temasek US$1.13bn. NYT article. MayBank later justified its cock-up by pointing out that around the same time, HSBC paid around the same price (book value wise) for another Indon bank. Critics pointed out that in the context of MayBank's financials, the amount was a big a sum while HSBC's purchase was "peanuts" relative to HSBC's financials.
Analysts now say that MayBank's plans to sell a stake in BII for the same price as it paid Temasek is unrealistic.
Well the price that DBS is paying Temasek for its majority stake in Bank Danamon works out to be 2.6 times book value, and is considered reasonable but pricey. The premium over book has dropped substantially. But it is a gd deal.
And going back in history, Temasek got a great deal when it sold its PosBank stake to DBS. Foreign broker analysts (though not local broker analysts and our constructive, nation-building media) were grumbling that Temasek was getting DBS shares at a big discount to DBS's fair value. FTR, no foreign analyst is arguing that Temasek is getting DBS shares at a big discount to its fair value in the Bank Danamon deal.
Moral of these examples: Temasek can do savvy deals with M'sians and DBS. Nothing to do with fact that DBS is controlled by Temasek. It's that DBS likes to do "strategic" deals and, there are studies (dispued) which show that because strategic deals involve paying over the odds, shareholder value is destroyed in the process.
And consider this too. RRJ and Temasek have been big backers of the trend to use natural gas. Last year they put US$250m into Nasdaq-listed Clean Energy Fuels, a US-based group that provides natural gas fuel for transportation at gas stations in the US at a saving of US$2 a gallon.
That transaction, which closed in January or February this year, has already more than doubled in value.
And this looks pretty savvy too. Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings and private equity firm RRJ Capital bought nearly half of the shares in the $1.34 billion offering by PetroChina Co's unit Kunlun Energy Co Ltd, two sources with direct knowledge of the deal said on Tuesday. $=US$
Kunlun Energy and Clean Energy Fuels have a similar mandate and RRJ hopes to bring the two together, according to one report. BTW RRJ is founded by a Malaysian Chinese.
Bang yr balls in frustration Ho Ching detractors, and all haters of the S'pore government and its agencies. Temasek can do savvy deals if M'sians are involved. Either as
suckers buyers or as co-investors.
Jokes aside, remember the lines from "If"
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
Well in investing, as in other aspects of life, the line between success and failure is very, very narrow.
KKR and TPG, giant US private equity investors invested billions of their investors' funds in TXU. One of the things they were betting on was that natutal gas prices would be priced-off oil prices for the foreeable future. Err now even Buffett has lost money buying TXU bonds. The problem is that recent technological developments mean that natural gas can be extracted from shale, decoupling its price from that of oil. Natural gas is no longer a scarce commodity.
Now all three have extremely gd track records as savvy investors. BTW Temasek's Merrill Lynch deals would be like this deal. The conventional wisdom was that the deals were risky but that the prices paid reflected the risk and that in all probability the deals would work out for the investors.
Now the conventional wisdom was that the investors got things wrong* . But as FT's Lex reports:
They paid too much. That was the consensus when 3G Capital took Burger King private in 2010 for a total enterprise value of $4bn, or nine times trailing earning before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation. How did things go? Well, Justice Holdings has just paid $1.4bn and will get 26 per cent of Burger King's common shares in return. This now puts the enterprise value of Burger King at $8bn – an ev/ebitda multiple of 16 times (14 times if you follow Burger King's practice of excluding restructuring and other costs). By comparison, the multiples for global powerhouses McDonald's and Yum Brands are 11 and 14 times. Arcos Dorados, the largest Latin American McDonald's franchisee, trades at 12 times.
3G's partners put $1.2bn of cash into the original deal and borrowed the remainder of the price. They also paid themselves a near $400m dividend last year, thank you very much. If they had sold the whole company at the price Justice has paid, 3G would have more than doubled its money in a year and a half. Over the same period, McDonald's and Yum shares have returned 38 per cent and 64 per cent, respectively. Consensus now: would you like fries with that, gentlemen.
*Bit like Temasek's Shin deal. Brokers were telling their clients with shares in Shin to tender the shares. They would never see such a price again. But our nation-building, constructive media failed to report these views here.


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Financing your farm doesn't have to be complicated. Start by finding the right bank and the right loan officer for your needs.
By Joel Harlow
I have been fortunate enough to spend my 30-year career in banking, chiefly agricultural banking, originating agricultural real estate and operating loans. With the changes in the banking industry, agricultural finance is a challenge. As Texas urbanizes, there are fewer and fewer banks with the willingness or desire to serve the agricultural sector. In the areas of Texas where banks are headquartered in urban areas and have branches in the rural areas, many no longer have the staff expertise to make and service these loans. Many consider agricultural lending too risky, too time consuming, and just not worth the trouble. There are easier loans to make, and it is not easy money. Many banks would rather make standard consumer, commercial and real estate loans than devote the resources necessary to service the agriculture community.
I have enjoyed agricultural lending both on large scale and small scale, and I do not consider these loans any riskier than any other type of commercial loans. The loan is as good as the borrower. If the borrower has managerial ability, character and adequate financial resources to weather downturns in the market, the loan is as low risk as any other commercial loan.
That being said, as a producer, here are some guidelines for financing your operation:
Choose the Right Bank and the Right Banker.
One of the first and most important issues pertaining to agriculture finance is finding the institution that fits your operation and the lender who understands your operation and what you are trying to accomplish. If you are looking to finance a multi-million dollar operation, you are going to want to go with a bank with the resources and capital to meet your needs, especially if expansion is in your future. One good way to see if a bank is right for you is to look at their annual reports; commercial banks can be found on the FDIC website (www.fdic.gov). If dealing with a Farm Credit System Association, the associations publish their annual and quarterly reports on their respective websites.
Look and see how involved the bank is in agricultural loans. What is their agricultural loan volume compared to their volume in other types of lending?
Visit the Bank
Visit the bank and ascertain their maximum lending limit to one customer and the comfort level of the institution in approaching this limit with one customer. If your credit needs are close to the maximum lending limit of an institution or you feel that additional credit in the future will be needed that will exceed their lending limit, you will be better served to find a lender with a larger lending limit.
If you have a smaller operation, say, with a credit need of $1,000,000 or less, most community banks in rural areas will have the ability to meet your needs. There are larger community banks that are very comfortable with agricultural lending and can handle a lot larger lines. However, a producer needs to see whether or not the bank has the expertise in agricultural lending and whether they are comfortable with agricultural loans. This can be determined by visiting with the loan officer with whom you will be dealing. Explain your operation, your credit needs and your future plans. You will know within a few minutes whether or not the loan officer has the knowledge, background, expertise, and desire to finance your operation by the questions he or she asks, his/her look and demeanor, and the amount of interest shown.
If you receive negative feedback, say, "Thank you for your time," walk away and find another source of financing. Your gut will tell you whether they have any interest or not, and do not waste time if the interest, ability and experience are not there. They may wind up making the loan; however, they will never be comfortable with it, and if the lender is not comfortable, there is no basis for a relationship.
Talk with Fellow Producers
Find out what kind of relationship they have developed with a particular lender and whether that lender is the type that will stay with you when times get rough. A good agricultural lender will work with a producer in times of market downturns, droughts, etc. Do not get with a "fair weather" lender. These lenders will loan when market conditions are good but will not stay with you when there is a downturn. Good agricultural lenders know that all markets are cyclical and will stay with a producer as long as there is light at the end of the tunnel.
However, this does not mean a lender is obligated to keep funding a non-viable operation. If an operation is viable and having a short-term downturn that can be resolved, he or she knows the best action that can be taken is to try to work out a plan because liquidation usually results in a loss. But fully expect that any lender will take action as necessary to protect their money if an operation cannot pull out of a downturn. He or she has an obligation to minimize the loss to their institution, whether it is by restructuring loans for a viable operation or seeking liquidation if the operation is not viable.
It is desirable, if not crucial, that your loan officer have some agricultural background. It is even better if your loan officer actually owns an agricultural operation because they will follow the market, the news, and will understand the ups and downs of the market. During my career, I have been responsible for hiring many loan officers to originate and service agricultural loans. I would take a loan officer with an agriculture degree (in any discipline of agriculture) who grew up on a farming operation, possessed mathematical ability, analytical skills and people skills over an Ivy League graduate with an MBA in finance, any day of the week. The ability to analyze the financial data on an agricultural operation and make a loan decision can be taught a lot easier than teaching the agricultural industry. Unfortunately, this line of thinking is not as prevalent in the industry as it was 10 to 15 years ago. I know the value of a loan officer who understands agriculture after hearing too many stories of loan officers structuring agricultural loans with monthly payments when the income stream was on an annual basis.
Go for a Good Fit
Stay away from the lender who wants to tell you how to run your operation. You are there every day and know the operation much better than the lender. Explain your operation and your plans to the lender. If he or she is in agreement with your plans, has a comfort level with your financial condition and the loan request fits the bank, then they should make the loan and stay out of the way. If they do not agree with it, then they should not make the loan.
If a lender does not agree with you, this does not mean the lender does not know what they are doing. It may be that your operation is just not a good fit in their lending institution. (Producers do not even agree with each other on management.) It is better to find another lender who is in agreement with your plan of operation than to have a lender who wants to tell you how to manage it. This does not mean the lender should not have a lot of questions for you and ask you why you are taking a certain action. But you will be able to tell by the questions he or she asks whether or not they have a comfort level with you, whether your respective philosophies on agriculture are in agreement and whether they have an adequate knowledge of the agricultural industry.
Look for a Quick Response
Make sure your loan officer has the authority to make day-to-day decisions regarding simple or minor requests you may have, and make sure they are available after banking hours. All producers I finance have my cellphone number and my home phone number and know they are welcome to call me any time if they have an issue. I actually end up talking to my agricultural customers after hours and on weekends more than I do during normal business hours. If they are at an auction and need to buy cattle or equipment, I have the ability to get them an answer within a short amount of time, even if the request is above my authority. It is a red flag if you call your loan officer with a relatively simple request and he or she responds, "I will need to take that to committee and see whether we can approve that or not."
A good loan officer may have to "call the boss" to get a simple request approved, but the loan officer should have a relationship with management that would allow a response in a reasonable amount of time. That being said, do not expect that the loan officer will be able to approve a major request on the spot, but he or she should be able to handle those day-to-day issues within a few hours.
In summary, choose a bank that is comfortable with agricultural loans, has the ability and size to finance your operation, and has the knowledge, background, and experience on staff to meet your needs. Make sure your loan officer has a good relationship with bank management so that decisions can be made in a timely manner, is available after hours to assist you, understands the ups and downs of the market, and will stick with you as long as there is light at the end of the tunnel.


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Normandy is an industrial district in the State of Alderney. It is located within the center of Alderney, bordered by Strower Avenue to the west (Acter), the West River to the East (Purgatory in Algonquin, Liberty City), Roebuck Road to the north (Alderney City) and Port Tudor to the south.
Normandy, along with Port Tudor, serves as Alderney's harbor/seaport city. Normandy contains a few industrial offices for companies such as Post Op, Alpha Mail, and Pharte Gas. Normandy also contains a dock with a ship called the Wet Dream, and a few gas tanks and storage containers that can be seen all around Normandy.
Normandy is meant to represent the Military Ocean Terminal, located in Bayonne, New Jersey.
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While not directly a physics question, I can't think of forum better capable of answering my question.
In discussions over Japan's nuclear reactor situation the observation was made that reactors there and in the United States are built on shorelines or close to large bodies of water. Is this purely for the "backup backup backup" cases where immediate water is necessary or are there more reasons justifying these locations?


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The year before, as a fifth grade student, Zac had made some big improvements and won the Utah Freestyle novice state championship.
Most of the improvements came through hard work, getting beat on by his older brothers and a new coach, John Kelly, who was a national champion and former college coach.
John introduced Zac to a couple of new styles of wrestling Greco-Roman and Freestyle (styles in the Olympics) and then coached him to his first state championship.
Zac's longtime coach and dad had high expectations going into his sixth grade year and was a bit upset at him for that first loss.
It turns out the kid was a Nebraska state champion who had just moved to Colorado. Zac was also able to avenge the loss later in the year. Zac was able to finish his Jr. High folk style (high school style) year in grand fashion by winning the Utah 1-3 A state championship and then the Utah Super State Championship (all divisions combined).
Along the way, Zac place in several national caliber tournaments, including first place finishes at the Salt Lake Slam and Caleb Williams Memorial tournaments; second at The Freak Show in Las Vegas, Who's Bad in Pueblo, CO and The Beehive Brawl; and third in the Rocky Mountain Nationals in Denver CO.
He also received the Most Valuable Wrestler award in the Kayenta, AZ Tournament and went undefeated 13-0 in the North Sevier camp competition wrestling against high school age boys.
Zac wrestled more than 100 folk style matches this year getting himself prepared for his favorite style of wrestling, freestyle.
He owes his success in folkstyle to many coaches and wrestling partners, including Jr. High coaches Mike Bradford, Art Adair, and Kyle Curtis. These men spend a huge amount of time helping Monticello boys learn to wrestle. Also Rowdy Boy coach RL Wilcox, who runs one of the best youth programs around. Most of Zac's success comes from his wrestling partners Shandon Bradford and McKade Larose, who keep Zac at the top of his game all year.
The Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling seasons are a bit different this year. John Kelly moved and many wrestlers in the area are worn out by the time it gets underway.
Zac wrestles for the Canyonlands Wrestling Club and it really only had four members. He was lucky enough that former Monticello standout and 4X State Champion Aaron Butler was able to take over as coach.
He also had the dads of the four wrestlers in the club there at each practice, including JJ Squires, who has been a part of Zacs wrestling career beginning at age four and Steve Simpson, who is one of Zac's Mat Rat coaches from Blanding.
Canyonlands Wrestling Club is part of USA Wrestling, the largest and most recognized wrestling association in the United States. It divides wrestlers up by age and weight in tournaments. Zac was involved with the Novice division, but received permission from USA wrestling to move up to the next age level called Schoolboy for Utah tournaments.This allowed Zac to wrestle more experienced wrestlers.
USA Utah had a State Tournament in May. Zac won the Novice 105 lb. division in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman and was named as USA Utah wrestler of the week at the end of May.
Zac is one of only two southern Utah wrestlers to win the Utah Triple Crown; state championships in all three wrestling styles. The other is a wrestler from Delta.
Zac, Spencer Squires, and Tyler Andreason qualified to go to the Western Regional Tournament in Pocatello ID, the largest USA kids wrestling tournament in the nation.
Zac was also able to qualify for the USA National Tournament. Fortunately the Nationals were held in Provo.
Zac wrestled 112 pounds for his shot at a national championship.
He was able to win the National Wrestling Championship in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman. He did it in a dominating fashion without a point being scored against him.
After a long nine month wrestling season, Zac would like to thank all the people in Monticello and Blanding who have helped him achieve his wrestling goals.
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Pac-12 Notebook: Nick Montana may get first start for Washington
A look around the Pac-12:
Washington — Nick Montana may start if quarterback Keith Price can't after sustaining injuries to both knees.
UCLA — Kevin Prince will start at quarterback despite Richard Brehaut getting upgraded to probable.
USC — Red-shirt freshman linebacker Hayes Pullard looks forward to facing Oregon running back De'Anthony Thomas, his old teammate at Los Angeles' Crenshaw High.
Arizona State — Last year's win over Arizona in the Territorial Cup set stage for both teams' 2011 seasons.
Arizona — Interim coach Tim Kish seeking players who want to play after Wildcats showed disinterest in rout at Colorado.
California — Golden Bears, 19 1/2-point underdogs, may find hope in Oregon's whitewash of Stanford.
Stanford — Cardinal will again be without tight end Zach Ertz (leg) and receiver Chris Owusu (concussion) and place-kicker Jordan Williamson (undisclosed injury) is still only listed as probable.
Oregon — Coach Chip Kelly calls USC's Robert Woods and Marquise Lee best one-two receiver corps he'll see this year.
Oregon State — Beavers still pose a threat to Huskies, Washington coach Steve Sarkisian says.
Washington State — Cougars (4-6) still have a shot at .500 record starting with Utah at home Saturday.
Utah — So close, yet so far from South Division title, Utes look back on season with some regrets.


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by John Galt
May 15, 2012 22:30 ET
The usual suspects are at their propaganda inspired best with the monthly BLS report on consumer prices. The mainstream media has the usual headlines:May 15, 2012 22:30 ET
US Consumer-Price Index Unchanged; Core Rate Climbs 0.2%
US April consumer prices flat as gasoline drops
US consumer prices flat as gas costs fall
In other words, gas distorted reality as the reality is that the impacts on things the average American need or use every month increased except for electrical utilities and natural gas prices which showed a year over year decline.
The interesting thing is that the rate of increase in gasoline prices did not spell out deflation but when combined with other increases, especially in rent prices, the dollar continues it's decline into irrelevancy until the crisis in Europe causes the current panic stricken rush into perceived safety. Thus I guess for most items to only have a 3% to 5% increase year over year, this means that inflation is check according to the hedonic insanity of the BLS.
Thankfully if you need a used car, the sash for clunkers program has finally stabilized prices with an average of just over 3% change year over year each month and that should help some lower class families out as long as they are looking for a hot ride like a Ford Escort or ragged out rice powered shoe box:
That's it until next month when I expect a massive decline in CPI due to the strengthening dollar and a hedonically adjusted realization that people will replace bacon with pigs ears and hamburger with cow tongue. I suppose the other adjustment which will help is a replacement of motor fuel with wind power which after all is relatively cheap as long as one does not live near a Kennedy residence.


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On March 22, 1950, Special Agent Guy Hottel sent a single-page memo to Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover.
The FBI never followed up, and more than six decades later, it is the most popular file in the FBI's digital vault since its release in 2011 under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Bureau also never commented on the memo -- until now.
In an article released Tuesday, the FBI finally offers some context.
The document went viral in 2011, spurring wild speculation that the FBI had recovered -- and covered up -- solid proof of extraterrestrial life.
But it's actually just evident of a particularly durable hoax, a long trail of Chinese whispers that reached Hottel at the Washington, D.C., field office by way of a story in a Kansas City newspaper.
From International Business Times:
"That news story draws from the account of a Rudy Fick, a local used car dealer.
Fick got the story from a two men, I. J. Van Horn and Jack Murphy, who said they got the story from a man named Coulter - actually a radio station advertising manager named George Koehler. Koehler got the story from Silas Newton.
The hoax begins with Newton and his accomplice, Leo A. Gebauer. Newton and Gebauer were peddling doodlebugs -- devices that could supposedly find oil, gas, gold, or anything else that the target of the con was interested in finding.
The difference between Newton and Gebauer's con and many others that preceded it was they said their doodlebugs were better because they were based on alien technology.
The two men told Frank Scully, a columnist for Variety, about the UFO crash. There were no other witnesses. Scully claimed in his book that Newton and Gebauer told him the military had taken the craft for secret research.
Meanwhile, the story of the alien technology piqued the interest of J.P. Cahn of the San Francisco Chronicle. Cahn managed to convince Newton and Gebauer to give him a sample of the alien metal, which turned out to be aluminum."
The perpetrators of the fraud were convicted, but the story wouldn't go away.
It was, unsurprisingly, connected to the supposed Roswell incident, which took place in 1947. The FBI clarifies the two aren't connected, and though Hoover asked his agents to investigate any supposed UFO sightings, they shut down the practice after the Hottel memo.
So maybe the FBI didn't think it was worth looking in to, as the Bureau suggests. Or perhaps they really are hiding something...


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Twelve-year-old Cole Derrick of Fayston went undefeated in the six Bolton Valley Night Rider events he entered, to win the 12-and-under freestyle skier category. Derrick, who missed the first competition in the seven which comprised the series, earned 40 points to best fellow 12-year-old Dan Hibbs from Jericho (23 points) and Bolton's 11-year-old Ellis Farrell (22).
En route to his second consecutive title in the annual terrain park competition, Derrick also aced the three parts of the Friday, March 13, finals, scoring the most points in two separate rail jams as well as a jump jam. The top three finishers in each of the eight season-long Night Rider divisions earned cash and prize packages from series sponsors.
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Stuck in the Middle With Obama (and Bachmann)
This is the first edition of my Fair and Unbalanced blog (Denver Post version), and I'm excited to return to the blogosphere, where all things unhinged (like me) are welcome.
You — hinged or otherwise — are also welcome. That's part of the deal.
We're starting just before Barack Obama's State of the Union speech airs tonight at 7 our time. I'll be back with updates. The highlights are expected to include: the seating arrangements (who will Mark Udall sit with?), which Supreme Court justices show up and whether Obama will try to make nice, drinking game words (civility, let me be clear, heroes), what Obama says about the deficit and Social Security, how little he says about Tunisia, and finally the Michele Bachmann (are you watching, Sarah?) unofficial Tea Party reply and how completely it upstages Paul Ryan's official Republican reply.
The most certain thing is that the post-game analysis will be on whether Obama has moved to the center. But the smart guys (see: Greg Sargent's Morning Plum column at the Washington Post) have noted that the real issue is how successful Obama is in redefining the center to fit his terms.
By the way, I've got "investment" in the drinking game which, unfortunately for me, means overpriced bottled water, the unofficial drink of the Denver Post Editorial Board during working hours.


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Philip Jones Griffiths - VIETNAM. 1987
VIETNAM. Bien Hoa. Much of the scrap war material collected by countless scavengers all over the country ends up at the Vicasa Metal Works at Bien Hoa, where it
VIETNAM. Children with an unexploded bomb in the courtyard of their house in a village near Vinh.
VIETNAM. Mai Chiem Tiem, 46 years old, from Dong Ha town, lost his hand and had his optic nerves severed w
VIETNAM. Near the old American base south of Quang Tri, a young girl stands over her patch of saplings. Marked off by old artillery shells, she is responsible f
VIETNAM. A Luoi Valley. Checking the tips of the branches for destructive insects among new plantation in a heavily defoliated area. The treeless denuded hills
VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. Deformed babies at the Tu Du Hospital. 1987
VIETNAM. War scrap being collected at the site of the old Camp Carroll Marine Base just south of the former Demilitarized Zone.
VIETNAM. The mountains of scrap metal are cut up and sorted according to their value.
VIETNAM. The Dong Loc Valley near Vinh is considered to be the start of the trail. It was one of the most heavily bombed area of North Viet Nam during the war.
VIETNAM. Boys tending a patch of groundnuts planted close to the remains of a bombed-out building near Vinh. American planes bombed every building in the area,
VIETNAM. Children outsid etheir home near Vinh. Two unexploded bombs have been fashioned as gateposts.
VIETNAM. War scrap metal left lying around on an old battlefield near Quang Tri being collected by a peasant woman.
VIETNAM. Two children stand beside the grave of a relative in a cemtery near the town of Vinh Phu, west of Ha Noi. The graveyard was surrounded with new trees t
VIETNAM. Young scrap-collector in front of pile of shell casings at the Camp Evans site near Hue.
VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. NGUYEN Viet-Duc, born at Gia Lai, Kontum, on February 25, 1981. They were conjoined at the pelvis, with one anus, one penis, one urin...
VIETNAM. Villagers help to prepare a denuded hillside for replanting with saplings. 1987
VIETNAM. School children tending to a bed of saplings before transplanting. The country's reforestation program has afforded the opportunity to reaffirm the tra
VIETNAM. A Luoi Valley. Dead trees remain in a defoliated hillside. The terrain is covered with scrub preventing new trees from growing. 1987
VIENAM. Hue. Repairing the damage done to the Imperial Palace. This 86-year-old artisan was working on restoring the head of a rooftop dragon.
VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. Visitors at the War Remnants Museum, where much of the ordnance used in the war is on display.
VIETNAM. On the road between Dong Ha and Hue old artillery shells and their casings are piled up for shipment to the Vicasa Metal Works near Ho Chi Minh City. T