| Support for stability: SCIE’s response to Care Matters White Paper
The measures reflect many of SCIE's recommendations drawn from work with care-experienced young people, parents, practitioners and researchers. Chair of SCIE, Allan Bowman, welcomed the challenging political initiative of raising the national profile of the lives of children in care. Speaking about the paper, he said that care-experienced young people will particularly benefit from support after the age of 16 and more structured ways of participating in service development. "Young people from care have told us that they want stability, to be listened to, taken seriously, involved fully in decisions about their lives, and helped to become independent adults. High-level support for young people during their transition to adulthood is vital to build the necessary resilience, self-esteem and empowerment to progress with confidence.
Sue Hutchison: Smart comedy ought to be serious about abortion
It's not often that I go to see a comedy that makes me laugh so hard I almost blow Diet Coke and popcorn through my nose and yet frustrates me so much that I leave the theater wrung out and let down. That's how I felt after I saw "Knocked Up," a movie that is far smarter and funnier than its central premise. In case you haven't seen the reviews or the raging discussion about it in the blogosphere, "Knocked Up" is the story of an attractive young TV reporter who gets pregnant after a drunken one-night stand with a good-natured slacker whom she meets in a bar -- and she decides to have the baby. The option of having an abortion is barely even mentioned, and she proceeds to drag the slacker into the gynecologist's exam room with her for her first ultrasound. Suddenly, she expects him to be a part of her life and the baby's.
The Reliable Source
At a red-carpet premiere on Wednesday night in Largo for the WKYS-FM personality's directorial debut, singer Mya (in a dazzling backless evening gown) rubbed elbows with the sharp-dressed likes of Adrian Fenty and Clinton Portis (dudded out like a high-fashion skater boy), while Parr himself made the scene in . . . jeans, T-shirt and ball cap? Exactly: just like Spielberg or Spike. The total auteur uniform. .
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