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Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Hundreds of kids avoid social work intervention, thanks to Dumfries and Galloway programme
dailyrecord.co.ukVital early intervention work in Dumfries and Galloway is giving hundreds of kids a better chance in life – and saving authorities nearly £17m per year.The number of vulnerable families and children being supported across the region has more than doubled over the past seven months, according to a new council report.Last summer, around 129 families and 226 children were receiving emotional and practical support from the council’s family support service.However, this has now jumped to 271 families and 420 children, which will help prevent the majority of those youngsters entering the statutory social work system.A council spokesman said this week: “The increases are due to need for the service, and more referrals coming into the service.“As of June 2022, there were a larger number of cases that required a greater input by more staff from across the service.“Following the work with these cases, the service is now in a position where it can carry out more early intervention work.
This has contributed to the numbers as reported.”The ‘cost avoidance’ value of preventing kids entering the statutory social work system is £40,000 per year per child – which equates to £16.8m being saved annually by the authorities at the current high level of support being provided.Stephen Morgan, social work’s senior manager for children and families, highlighted these figures in a new report which references research by commissioned by the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.He stated: “The family support service currently support 271 families, with 420 children.
None of these are currently in the statutory social work system, so this equates to cost avoidance of up to £16.8m per annum.“It should be noted that the issues and needs
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