Social climate of psychiatric institutions correlates with multiple outcomes related to staff and patients. Research into social climate in Learning Disability services is limited. Staff and patients in Learning Disability
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A new book examined the use of restorative justice in repairing the harm created by criminal offences. The book explored the development of empathy and compassion across the ‘timeline’ of
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Restorative justice occupies an important place in criminological literature and criminal justice policies and is about facilitating communication between victims, offenders and communities in search of conciliation. Research shows that
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The government published its child poverty strategy for 2014-17. It said that good progress had been made in many areas to date and that the government remained committed to the
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A report provided the response of the Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People to the recommendations set out in the independent review of the Liverpool Care Pathway (an
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The Commissioner’s report, entitled Protecting our Older People in Northern Ireland – A call for Adult Safeguarding Legislation reviews current legislation and practice in Northern Ireland in relation to abuse
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Abstract – There are almost 90,000 young people in care in the UK. Many over the age of eleven years enter care due to anti-social behaviour, acute stress and family
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A report examined the self-reported rates of exposure of people with disabilities to violent crime, hate crime, and disablist hate crime, drawing on data from the Life Opportunities Survey. It
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A report examined the educational trajectories of children from disadvantaged backgrounds. It said children in this group were far less likely to become ‘high achievers’ at any stage, and that
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A report examined the impact of legal rights to housing for homeless people, focusing on the capacity of such rights to empower those experiencing homelessness, using Lukes’ three-dimensional view of
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