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How to celebrate Halloween with young children
Education & Development

How to celebrate Halloween with young children

...family practices, can participate comfortably at this time of year. Ways that we can achieve this is ensuring there is no pressure to take part in Halloween activities or games; some families may not celebrate Halloween for cultural or religious reasons. Make sure non-participatory activities are available and equally fun, so no child feels excluded or singled out. For...
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Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks

...family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. It means ‘bouncing back’ from difficult experiences. Resilience is not necessarily a trait we’re born with – it can be developed through experiences, mindset shifts, culture, and support systems (Chemaly, 2024). A key factor in resilience can be having caring and...
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Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...families, reducing their involvement in violent crime and disorder”. The government hoped to see “a reduction in the number of youth fatalities and serious injuries caused by gang or youth violence”. But in 2015, the Home Affairs Select Committee reported that that the Home Office had failed to properly evaluate the effectiveness or value for money of the project....
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Self-managed abortion in the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

Self-managed abortion in the UK

...family, which enhanced their overall sense of ease. However, some felt worried or uncertain about the abortion process itself, suggesting a complex mix of feelings may be common. An absence of sufficient in-person support, and difficulties in understanding written instructions, contributed to these feelings. The study was conducted while restrictions relating to Covid-19...
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Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...history and how it has been performed as well as some of the technical elements of blues music. [Described image] Figure 1 B. B. King performing c.1968. Photo Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (via Britannica Image Quest) Before you start, take a couple of minutes to reflect on what you already know about the blues and about musical traditions. If you do an internet...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...histories, we are shaped by – and we in turn shape – institutions. They give structure and meaning to our lives. They make shared experience, and shared action, possible. In short, we live our lives – as social beings – through institutions. I can put this in more formal, academic terms. Teddy Brett, who has contributed a great deal to the theory and practice of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...Families (DOH, 2000, 2001). The ecological perspective sees the world as a highly complex web of interacting systems which are mutually dependent (perhaps the food chain is the best-known example). When applied to social work, human society is seen as a network, implying that intervention in one part can have dramatic effects on others. The tendency to see such a network...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Emily Davies

...that women’s achievements would be recognised as equal. However, women were not awarded degrees on an equal basis to men at Cambridge until 1948. Fifty years afterwards, in 1998, a special ceremony was held at the university to honour the 900 women who had earned, but not been awarded, degrees between 1869 and 1948. Discover more about education, history and gender...
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