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Introduction
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We must make life as difficult as possible for today's slave masters and traffickers, and the position of the victims of slavery must be transformed”
The figures speak for them selves
Romania, Hungary, Lithuania and Poland are part of the Eastern European block has been. In the news many of these countries you will see the prosperous aspects of the countries.
Those travelling into the U.K from Poland and Lithuania for example there are no Visa requirements just the need to carry their passport People from Poland were the most likely victims of labour exploitation - forced to work in agriculture, construction, factories and car washes. East Europeans sometimes sell their passports for drink or drugs or have them removed.
How would you recognize it ?
What support is available?
DWP provide translation for most languages for anyone who gets away and the Police are able to telephone for translation as well.
If an individual is entitled to be in the U.K then the issues are less complex but the support in any situation is important
In most locations there are night shelters as well as organizations like "Framework " or the Salvation Army that can assist
Why?
Some victims had initially responded to online dating sites or job adverts. "Various sources indicate that tattoos are used globally to mark victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation by traffickers and pimps, but the extent to which this is used in the UK is not known.” How do they arrive? It is possible to catch buses as well as flights from as little as a cost of a train from many parts of the U.K. A return trip from East Midlands or Doncaster Airport can be less than £100 It is possible to drive through the EU from countries like Lithuania
So what action is being taken by the U.K government and U.K agencies The U.K Border agencies and Police are acting
Crime Invasion Human Trafficking
It is a criminal offence and these documentaries show real stories from the U.K Showing issues that are tough to take on board.
SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND THESE VIDEOS DISTURBING
Mental health problems are estimated to cost the economy around £100bn a year and around 70 million working days are also lost annually.
Nearly two-thirds of patients get access to talking therapies within 28 days. So asking the NHS to ensure 95% are seen within 18 weeks does not seem a big ask. Mental Health is also a issue seen in our prisons.
If you’ve just been diagnosed with a mental health problem you might be looking for information on your diagnosis, treatment options and where to go for support. Our information pages will help you learn more.
Types of depression (3)
Stress and anxiety (5)
Sleep (2)
Suicide and self-harm (3)
Eating and body image (2)
Types of personality disorder (2)
Mania, bipolar (2)
Psychosis, hearing voices and schizophrenia (4)
Other (9)
Anxiety and panic attacks
Explains anxiety and panic attacks, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Bipolar disorder
These pages describe the symptoms of bipolar disorder and what treatments are available. It also suggests how you can help yourself, and what family and friends can do.
Body dysmorphic disorder
Explains Body dysmorphic disorder, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Borderline personality disorder
Explains borderline personality disorder (BPD), including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Depression
Explains depression, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Dissociative disorder
Explains dissociative disorders, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Drugs - street drugs
Explains the mental health effects of street drugs such as alcohol, cannabis or cocaine. It explains what might happen if you use street drugs and also have a mental health problem, and suggestions for where you might find support.
Eating problems
Explains eating problems, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Hearing voices
About voices, who hears them and how to cope if they are a problem.
Hypomania and mania
Explains hypomania and mania, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Loneliness
Explains loneliness, giving practical suggestions for what you can do and where you can go for support.
Mental health problems - introduction
Explains the most commonly discussed mental health problems, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Explains obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Panic attacks
Brief tips about panic attacks and what might help.
Paranoia
Explains paranoia, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Personality disorders
Explains personality disorders, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support.
Phobia
Explains phobias, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Postnatal depression
Explains postnatal depression, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Psychotic experiences
Explains pyschotic experiences, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
PTSD
Explains post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Schizoaffective disorder
For people who have been given a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, and their friends and relatives. Explains what the disorder is, and the types of treatment and support available.
Schizophrenia
Explains schizophrenia, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Seasonal affective disorder
Explains seasonal affective disorder, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Self-esteem
Explains how to increase your self-esteem, giving practical suggestions for what you can do and where you can go for support.
Self-harm
Explains self-harm, including possible causes and how you can access treatment and support. Includes tips for helping yourself, and guidance for friends and family.
Sleep problems
Explains insomnia and other sleep problems, giving practical suggestions for what you can do and where you can go for support.
Sleep problems - tips
Brief tips on how to cope with sleep problems.
Stress
Explains what stress is, including possible causes, and how you can learn to cope, with tips on how to relax.
Stress - tips
Brief tips on how to cope with stress.
Suicidal feelings
Explains what suicidal feelings are, including possible causes and how you can learn to cope.
With the Scottish independence: referendum taking the majority of the key
focus of media interest and political debate it was easy to miss out the
Unemployment figures this month
But maybe it was also a significant time to
look at Scottish Unemployment and areas that re well know and seen as an issue
like Glasgow
We clearly see the Unemployment issues and figures highlight the North East and Welsh areas as an issue and the Interactive map shows that most of the stats are the same in most areas.
In the near future we may look at how the areas of the Universal Credit has altered the Stats for JSA figures in those areas The BBC no longer use the interactive map but it does make for interesting viewing
Migration has been a political hot subject in the U.K for some time. Indeed, the
figures make interesting reading that have been published today.
UKIP have
long made it a political issue so these figures make an interesting comment.
When we hear that Polish Nationality and Indian Nationalities have become a
large group in the area and affecting the public services we can see or at least
observe the changes here.
In some areas the need to communicate in some languages may be of Benefit.
Look at the map. Whilst the figures for the census are a few years ago now and
the Bulgarian and Romanian communities have only recently had the same
opportunities as the A8 nations it is worthy of reflection
Language is a key factor in certain areas. I observe that Boston in Lincolnshire has Polish and Lithuanian as key languages. Does your area reflect the changes that have occured?
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The DWP sanctions have been Published Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) was introduced in 2008 to replace incapacity benefit. In the first three months of 2014, there were 15,955 sanctions on ESA claimants, compared with 3,574 in the same period last year.
Only ESA claimants in the work-related activity group, where an adviser assists them with training and skills, can be subject to sanctions, which are handed out for failing to attend a mandatory interview or failing to take part in a work-related activity.
There are 552,000 benefit claimants in the ESA work-related activity group and they receive up to £101.15 a week, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said.
Matt Downie, director of policy and external affairs at Crisis, said: "This is a shocking escalation in the use of sanctions and we are deeply concerned about the impact on people's lives.
"Sanctions are cruel and can leave people utterly destitute - without money even for food and at severe risk of homelessness. It is difficult to see how they are meant to help people prepare for work.
"Our own research has shown that many homeless people face unfair and inappropriate sanctions, often handed out due to errors on the part of the job centre or work programme provider.
"We want the government to commit to an urgent, wide-ranging review looking at the appropriateness and effectiveness of sanctions, especially for people at risk of or experiencing homelessness."
I have looked at the Stats and here are some of the figures
The figures make for interesting reading
We feature the Birmingham figures here
Decision to apply a sanction (adverse) 3
Other decisions taken:
Decision not to apply a sanction (non-adverse) 4
Reserved decisions5
Cancelled referrals6
GREAT BRITAIN
1,282,497
714,408
134,775
681,192
CENTRAL ENGLAND
280,437
163,554
26,031
128,974
Birmingham and Solihull
40,256
25,605
3,158
16,340
Birmingham - Airport
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Birmingham - Aston
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Birmingham - Centennial House
1,934
1,374
139
741
Birmingham - Chelmsley Wood
2,250
1,435
211
932
Birmingham - Five Ways
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-
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Birmingham - Harbone Lane
2,840
1,889
244
1,342
Birmingham - High Street
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-
Birmingham - Holyhead Road
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Birmingham - Kings Heath
2,980
1,877
189
1,263
Birmingham - Ladywood
3,015
1,673
170
1,019
Birmingham - Meridian House
3,096
2,208
200
985
Birmingham - Northfield
3,436
2,688
295
1,622
Birmingham - Ravenhurst
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-
-
Birmingham - Small Heath
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Birmingham - Soho Road
4,219
1,982
258
1,544
Birmingham - Sparkhill
4,862
3,737
473
2,046
Birmingham - Sutton New Road
3,049
2,027
277
1,325
Birmingham - Washwood Heath
3,729
1,946
339
1,876
Birmingham - Yardley
1,471
1,074
91
535
Solihull - Park House
2,369
1,124
192
764
prosperous areas
Harrogate - Victoria Avenue
1,514
1,227
137
463
Hessle - The Weir
826
435
76
275
I have highlighted Burminham Ladywood as it used to have the Highest
Although we do not see the Benefit situation DWP have kindly poduced a link on
Youtube
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/august-2014/zero-hours-contracts.html
This is usefull as it also provides those looking at the argument of the Zero
hour contract.
For many this is a new area as the zero hour means you can be technically in
employment but not having hours of work
Here are the ONS
Analysis of zero-hours contracts
Looking at the type of people who report that they are employed on a zero-hours
contract, compared with other people in employment who are not on a zero-hours
contract, shows that there are differences in their characteristics. For April
to June 2014:
Women make up a greater
proportion of those reporting working on zero-hours contracts (54%);
compared with those employed who are not on zero-hours contracts (46%).
People who report being on a
zero-hours contract are more likely to be younger. 37% of people on
zero-hours contracts are aged 16 to 24, compared with 12% for those employed
who are not on zero-hours contracts.
64% of people on zero-hours
contracts reported that they worked part time, compared with just over a
quarter (27%) of those employed who are not on zero-hours contracts.
People who report being on a
zero-hours contract are more likely to be working in Accommodation & Food
Services or Health & Social Work. Relatively few work in Financial,
Insurance and Professional, Scientific & Technical Activities and Production
(including Agriculture).
The average actual weekly
hours worked by people in employment who report being on a zero-hours
contract is 22 hours compared with 32 hours for all workers. The average
usual
Analysis of zero-hours contracts
Looking at the type of people who report that they are employed on a zero-hours
contract, compared with other people in employment who are not on a zero-hours
contract, shows that there are differences in their characteristics. For April
to June 2014:
Women make up a greater proportion of those reporting working on zero-hours
contracts (54%); compared with those employed who are not on zero-hours
contracts (46%).
People who report being on a zero-hours contract are more likely to be younger.
37% of people on zero-hours contracts are aged 16 to 24, compared with 12% for
those employed who are not on zero-hours contracts.
64% of people on zero-hours contracts reported that they worked part time,
compared with just over a quarter (27%) of those employed who are not on
zero-hours contracts.
People who report being on a zero-hours contract are more likely to be working
in Accommodation & Food Services or Health & Social Work. Relatively few work in
Financial, Insurance and Professional, Scientific & Technical Activities and
Production (including Agriculture).
The average actual weekly hours worked by people in employment who report being
on a zero-hours contract is 22 hours compared with 32 hours for all workers. The
average usual
weekly hours is higher at 24 hours (37 hours for all workers).
Alomg with the Claiment count theClaiment count by age and duration is also
published by age and duration
Interesting as well the Vacancies are published
by Sectors or industries making for interestingn reading
All vacancies1
Mining & quarrying
Manu- facturing
Electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supply2
Water supply, sewerage, waste & remediation
activities2
Construc-tion
Wholesale & retail trade; repair of motor vehicles
and motor cycles
Transport & storage
Accomoda-tion & food service activities
Information & communica-tion
Financial & insurance activities
Real estate activities2
Professional scientific & technical activities
Administra-tive & support service activities
Public admin & defence; compulsory social security
Education
Human health & social work activities2
Arts, entertainment & recreation2
Other service activities
Total services
Motor Trades
Wholesale
Retail
Should you wish to find out the size of the Business thats interesting as
well
What about the Regions you ask?
The employment rate in Great Britain was highest in the South East
(76.7%) and lowest in Wales (69.1%).
The unemployment rate in Great Britain was highest in the North East
(9.4%) and lowest in the South East (4.4%).
The inactivity rate in Great Britain was highest in Wales (25.7%) and
lowest in the East of England (19.3%).
The Claimant Count rate in Great Britain was highest in the North East
(5.0%) and lowest in the South East (1.7%
Well this information is also available today. Showing the need for
improvement and support in the North East because of the 9.4 % unemployment but
as expected the South East is the Boom area
An indication where the investment is needed -The North East
Here are the terms that ONS use that fits the video above in case you didnt
understand the activity or inactive aspects of the stats
The Stats are normally produced with a focus on the JSA as you can see from
th other information on this sheet
However many job seekers are on ESA Employment Support Allowance and this has
to be factored into the overall equation along with the Universal Credit aspect.
