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You and Yours: 27/04/2011

27/04/2011

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, 27/04/2011

Lord Adonis on revitalising the social work profession, and volunteering via your mobile.

Lord Adonis on revitalising the social work profession with a Teach First approach to recruitment, "Children First"; volunteering via your mobile phone; coastguard service reform.

Lord Adonis gives his ideas for revitalising the social work profession, including a Teach First approach to recruitment, "Children First". As the government extends its consultation period on changes to the coastguard service, we ask whether there could be a reprieve for some of the stations under threat of closure. The government wants to see a "huge increase" in the amount of energy generated by anaerobic digestion, but what impact could an expansion of this industry have on the environment?
David Cameron has praised a new mobile phone application that enables you to "volunteer" for charities via your handset, we look at the new trend for mobile volunteering.

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