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...
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...
Podcast where Donald O’Neal discusses the lack of Care in the Care Act 2014. Click here.
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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...
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...
Britain has made great strides towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) equality since the turn of the century. We have gone from being the country with the largest number of anti-gay laws to...
The economist Milton Friedman, who many people would cite as the Godfather of Neoliberalism, observed on a number of occasions that tax taken from an individual without their consent amounts to theft by the State. This...
We believe that the roots of [the converging crises of our times] lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves…We will reassert the role of storytelling as more than mere entertainment. It is through stories...
The government has recently restated its intention to press ahead with reforms which may result in Social Workers being jailed for up to five years for the criminal charge of wilful neglect. At a recent NSPCC conference...
