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 & Opinion Marginalised & 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.

October 11, 2023

Articles & Opinion Disability

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.

September 6, 2021

Category - Articles & Opinion

Articles & Opinion Looked After Children Outcomes/Policy

The Children’s Social Care Review: A question of ensuring love, stability and safety?

Just over two weeks ago saw the beginning of the long awaited review of children’s social care and the chair of this review opened the discussion with the question ‘How do we ensure children grow up in loving, stable...

March 17, 2021

Articles & Opinion Looked After Children Outcomes/Policy

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...

December 30, 2020

Articles & Opinion

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...

October 22, 2020

Articles & Opinion Marginalised & Excluded

Cleaning up fast fashion

At the time of writing, the city and suburbs of Leicester were under local lockdown due to a spike in Covid-19 cases, with allegations that this was linked to some garment factories that had not only continued to...

October 16, 2020

Articles & Opinion Marginalised & Excluded Poverty

Modern slavery: a prism into our world – Kieran Breen

“Although the Covid-19 crisis has caused grim new problems for Leicester’s garment workers, the exploitation detailed in the report is not new. Concerns about working conditions and illegally low pay in Leicester’s...

July 25, 2020

Articles & Opinion

The push for online content

This article was first published by British Education Studies Association on July 8th, 2020. Our BESA Secretary Dr Steve Dixon has found some time away from his day-to-day work as a Senior Lecturer at Newman...

July 13, 2020

Articles & Opinion

#BuildBackBetter: You know it makes sense, but how do you do it?

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...

July 10, 2020

Articles & Opinion

What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?

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...

June 4, 2020

Articles & Opinion Marginalised & Excluded

Recognising Gender In Early Education

A common phrase told to expecting or new parents is ‘it’s a girl / boy’ and this begins an individual’s characterisation of gender often before they are even born. Yet with an increasing number of children being...

May 11, 2020

Articles & Opinion

Over the rainbow. Where there is a will #TogetherWeCan

“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...

May 7, 2020

Category - Articles & Opinion

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