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.
Podcast where Donald O’Neal discusses the lack of Care in the Care Act 2014. Click here.
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...
We are delighted to be able to reproduce an article that has been specially edited for V360 by Alain Catzeflis from the Alliance for Camphill Steering Group. You can also see the original version on this link : ...
The NSPCC’s Impact and evidence series features a blog by the NSPCC’s Senior Evaluation Officer Vicki Hollis and Associate Head of Evaluation Emma Belton sharing findings from a literature review and research exploring...
Evidence from a recent opinion poll suggests that public attitudes towards those experiencing poverty and hardship have taken a worrying turn. It appears that levels of empathy and sympathy for people finding themselves...
and the Children and Families Act 2014 Arguably the Children and Families Act 2014 which became law in March this year includes the most significant reforms of the adoption system since Tony Blair and the New Labour...
The ‘Modern Day Slavery Bill’ currently making its way through Parliament has been trailed as the first piece of legislation in Europe to specifically tackle ‘modern slavery’. The Bill which would apply to England and...
Earlier this month another provocative Channel 4 documentary generated significant audience response on Twitter and other social media outlets, as ‘The Paedophile Hunter’ Stinson Hunter and his associates impressed or...
It’s May Day and our increasingly vulnerable and disempowered workforce want to know………… whatever happened to our trade unions? On the 4th May 1890 250,000 trade unionists descended on Hyde Park Corner in London...
by Suzanne Perry, i-HOP There are an estimated 200,000 children with a parent in prison in the UK[1]. There are even more who are affected by a parent or loved one’s involvement in other aspects of the criminal justice...
