Engage: We need to talk about social care providers
Amid growing concern that most NHS providers are sliding into deficit, arguably we should be even more worried about social care providers. This is a complex and sprawling sector –
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Engage: The past, present and future of child poverty in Scotland
Over the coming weeks, the Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People (SCCYP) will be running a short series of blogs on child poverty in Scotland from voices across the
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Engage: Bereavement by suicide – how traumatic events can make us stronger
Tara Lal’s brother took his own life when she was just 17. Here she blogs about how his death affected her, and how over time her grief made her a
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Engage: Is 30 hours of free childcare worth fighting for?
Good childcare provision is more about quality than quantity, says Helen Barnard. The Conservative’s flagship policy to give all families 30 hours of free childcare a week offered a ray
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Engage: We must work together to prevent child trafficking
The NSPCC’s Child Trafficking Advice Centre (CTAC) is working with Vietnam, Nigeria and Romania to help stop vulnerable children from being trafficked into the UK. Thousands of vulnerable children and
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Engage: Dementia and Politics – from the social work perspective
The last few years in the UK have been marked by a surge in interest in dementia from politicians. It dates from the dawning realisation that dementia costs more than
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Engage: How Jeremy Hunt’s seven-day NHS plans will punish social workers
Sarah Pollock, Lecturer in Social Work argues that Government plans will increase the challenges facing social workers Proposals to offer routine NHS England services seven days a week have already
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Engage: Vanessa Lodge on new moves to tackle Female Genital Mutilation
This is the time of year when young girls may be taken abroad for female genital mutilation (FGM). Vanessa Lodge, Chair of the national FGM steering group for NHS England,
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Engage: Alcohol guidelines ignore how people drink – that’s why they’re not heeded
As part of the government’s strategy to cut the human and economic cost of alcohol misuse, it currently recommends that men and women shouldn’t regularly drink more than three to
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Engage: ‘Compound Harms: What the Literature Says About U.K. and U.S. Transgender Young People in Survival Sex’
Transgender (trans)* young people engaging in survival sex in the United Kingdom and the United States is a major research gap and this blog will introduce a limited selection of
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