Podcast where Donald O’Neal discusses the lack of Care in the Care Act 2014. Click here.
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.
Category - Articles & Opinion
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 people I know or have been introduced to...
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 mental well-being. Alongside a lack of...
Finding the confidence to be creative – exploring the role of creativity in supporting care experienced young people
Ahead of ‘Voice & Vision’, a celebration of the creative work of young people with care experience, Laura Graham, Senior Evidence and Influencing Officer, Life Changes Trust, reflects on the role creativity plays in working with...
Same Storm, Different Boats – The Impacts of Climate Change Falls Unevenly and Unequally on Society
It is easy to think of climate change as a problem for future generations to deal with and tackle, especially if the effects of climate change are not felt directly. But millions of people around the world do not have that luxury as they are...
A Család Az Család: Amit az azonos neműek örökbefogadásáról, és az azonos nemű gyámszülőkről tanultunk Angliában az elmúlt 15 évben.
On the 30th December 2020 we published this article in English. It was written to help inform an audience in Hungary as well as those interested in the topic in the UK. What follows here is the translation of that article into Hungarian A Család Az...
The world is as dreadful or as wonderful as we want it to be
In a special International edition of our #BBBYouthWelfare series, run in partnership with De Montfort University, we were delighted to welcome Rakesh Rajani a Tanzanian civil society leader who is now an International thought leader based in New...
Turning despair into hope: A power to change approach
“When a flower does not bloom you fix its environment, not the flower.” Since March 23rd, 2020, Leicestershire Cares has been actively involved in...
A Család Az Család: What we have learnt from 15 years of same-sex adoption and fostering in England
(This article has been written to help inform an audience in Hungary as well as those interested in the topic in the UK. It is the intension of the author to have the text translated into Hungarian in the coming weeks for publication in that...
Change: It’s a piece of CAKE
Over the last six months as the world has locked down and battled with the pandemic, we have heard a lot of talk about the need to “Build Back Better”. I have highlighted elsewhere that “local voluntary WhatsApp and Facebook groups are springing up...
