Articles & OpinionLeaving Care

Leaving Care – My Journey

Institution to independence I started university at the age of 23 after spending 10 years in care homes and psychiatric hospitals. Throughout those years one of the things that kept me hopeful was my dream to...

April 17, 2024
Articles & OpinionMarginalised & Excluded

How Britain became a shattered nation by Danny Dorling

In this excerpt from his new book, academic Danny Dorling exposes a new geography of inequality and social fissures across the country. Read more. Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on...

October 11, 2023
Articles & OpinionDisability

Decentered Podcast 115 – Don O’Neal and the Lack of Care Act 2014

Podcast where Donald O’Neal discusses the lack of Care in the Care Act 2014. Click here.
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September 6, 2021
Articles & OpinionDisability

The Lack of Care Act 2014: Service users’ perspectives of a failing adult social care system by Donald O’Neal

The Lack of Care Act 2014: Service users’ perspectives of a failing adult social care system I am tetraplegic and an adult social care service user. I wrote this book based on my experience and that of other...

August 16, 2021
Articles & OpinionEmotional/Mental HealthLooked After Children

Mind Matters: How tackling loneliness taught us the power of community among care leavers

Poor mental well-being is commonly associated with care experienced young people. Their lives of abrupt endings, unreliable stability, loss of connections and adverse childhood experiences can result in poor...

July 14, 2021
Articles & OpinionGeneral

Fighting to keep our libraries

Libraries work. They make people literate. Here is some evidence. Please note few government ministers or local councillors use genuine evidence to support their decisions. “Enjoyment of reading has a greater impact on...

October 10, 2017
Articles & OpinionPoverty

Charity Nation

Have you noticed the remarkable increase in charity appeals for a whole range of ‘good causes’ – medical, social and environmental? It would be hard to miss them I guess given that the BBC seems to have become the State...

October 10, 2017