Category - Articles & Opinion

Throughout the pandemic, lockdown and now an extended lockdown in our home city. Leicestershire cares staff have been working with a range of community, council, and business colleagues to ensure nobody is left behind. Much of this activity has been...

It is easy to be cynical but the Covid-19 crisis has shown that generally we are not cynics. Kieran Breen FRSA argues that people’s kindness could be harnessed to drive agile, creative and deliberative democracy. Read more.

“Furlough stats: Eye-watering figures today on the government’s job retention scheme. 6.3 million jobs have been furloughed, with 800,000 employers taking part in the scheme, with the total value of claims so far now at £8 billion” Politico newsfeed...

The Covid-19 crisis has brought into sharp focus the extent to which a functioning society relies on people within caring professions. Each Thursday evening, I have joined in as families up and down the country have come together to ‘Clap for...

This blog post was originally published on the Research in Practice website.   This blog is informed by responses to an enquiry on Twitter in the week beginning the 30 March in which I asked what guidance was available to social workers when...

In an “oppressive” education system, children need the release of humour to make the world less frightening, according to the former children’s laureate Michael Rosen. Revealing the winners of the Laugh Out Loud awards, which celebrate the year’s...