Sowing seeds of rural wealth

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Forecasts expect 100,000 farming jobs to disappear in the 1990s so the government has launched an Action for the Countryside package. As part of the government's plan to aid rural economic development, the autonomous Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) are bringing job training into the countryside, and 21 of these TECs are combining to form the Consortium of Rural TECs to attract funds and pool practices. Norfolk and Waveney TEC has a scheme to collect villagers in north Norfolk in a bus equipped with fax machines, photocopiers, telephones and workstations to help train workers. Cumbria TEC is bidding for 60,000 pounds sterling to fund a resource and research unit and 70,000 pounds sterling for a computerised open-learning library. Leicestershire, Coventry and Warwickshire and Lincoln are bidding for similar developments.

Management, Innovations, Enterprise zones, Rural development, Occupational training, Employee training, Rural areas, Training and Enterprise Councils

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Listening to the kids

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Contact between children and a parent with whom they no longer live can have both positive and negative outcomes, according to Dr Brynna Kroll, a trained social worker and senior lecturer in social work at Brunel University College. She is to undertake detailed research on this subject through the the Thomas Coram Meeting Place in London, England, where contact is provided for children involved in private or public law proceedings. She hopes that her research will form the basis for guidelines for best practice in this area of family support.

Services, Practice, Interview, Social services, Social service, Children of divorced parents, Kroll, Brynna

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Self-help for bed-wetters

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The University of Nottingham, England, has developed an interactive CD-Rom package which is designed to help children suffering from enuresis, or bed-wetting. It aims to inform and involve children and their parents in treatment, and uses animation, text and pictures to gain children's interest. It places strong emphasis on empowerment, and also details the health-care professionals whom enuresis sufferers may meet in the course of their treatment.

Care and treatment, Enuresis, Bedwetting

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