Over the last couple of years, the country’s focus on improving the standard of dementia care has intensified. Partly, I believe, as a response to David Cameron’s Dementia Challenge pledge,
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Throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, as well as doing my day job, I also worked one or two shifts a week on the out-of-hours standby duty team. This team, consisting
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With Think Local Act Personal now confirmed that it will continue transforming health and care through personalisation and community-based support, the Making it Real (MiR) workplan endeavours to improve outcomes,
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Baroness Kingsmill’s independent report for the Labour Party paints a disturbing picture of working conditions in the adult care sector. Her findings highlight underlying issues that have not been fully
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I consider myself a bit of a magpie; a bit of a scavenger when it comes to research: I’m opportunistic, interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial. My current design research projects are varied;
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Local government is bound by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Check the responsibilities of your DCS and Lead Member for Children in their statutory guidance
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In February 2014 I commented on a public statement by Palace Gate Counselling Service (also known as Phoenix Counselling Service), an Exeter-based organisation that took the bizarre step of making
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It seems there is an emerging cross-party consensus on the need to change the criminal law on child neglect in this country. The most recent manifestation of this new consensus
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Poorer families are facing year-on-year cuts in the safety net following changes to Council Tax Support, says Sabrina Bushe. New research by the New Policy Institute for JRF shows that
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Junior Smart, Founder of St Giles Trust’s SOS Project which supports young people to exit gangs and serious youth violence, explains how young people become trapped in gangs and what
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