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...
The current “Windrush” scandal — where the Home Office has accused a number of long-settled individuals of being “illegal immigrants” — has thrown into relief the many consequences of the government’s “hostile...
In a wider context of a significant decrease in youth crime in the UK, figures for crimes of a sexual nature by those aged 10-17 have stayed fairly constant at around 2000 per year in England and Wales. This may be due...
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(The following article has been sent to us by Hayley N Jones, writer and Mental Health Blogger who publishes her material on this link) A lot of our fears and anxieties centre on one key fear: that of exposing ourselves...
Some key resources which illustrate the challenges associated with meeting the needs of Looked After Children and Care Leavers: Perceptions of Care Perceptions of Care – Become (2017) Care and Emotional/Mental Health...
The team arrives at a permitted food distribution point. Already, in the rain and freezing cold a silent, wretched line of hungry people is forming. Large containers of hot food are quickly unloaded onto trestle tables...
