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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...resource anything together, they don’t share facilities, they don’t prioritise things in the same way. While recently grassroots cricket clubs have been encouraged to set up women’s sections – often in light of the overwhelming popularity of youth cricket among girls – this has often been at the request of the National ECB rather than from existing clubs...
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Article 10 mins
Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...resources for professionals, children and family’s e.g. slang dictionary, emoji dictionary online accessed 10/01/2022 Children’s Society (2021) Children, Young People and Modern Slavery: A guide for professionals online accessed 10/01/2022 City and Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership (2021), Serious case review: Child I [full overview report] online accessed...
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Video 5 mins
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...resources that they have available to them to say this is me, this is my corner of the room, this is my space sort of within the house. It’s one of the first spaces in terms of what – of who people – who young people can actually let into the room, one of the first spaces that they can regulate… Laurie Taylor: Some people – I read about once – that people even...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...resources people need. They may also have views and feelings about previous involvement with social workers. It can be helpful to explore with people using services how they see your role; an open discussion about this is one way to support empowerment, whatever the context of your practice. Some members of the Social Work team at The Open University thought that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...human behaviour, which may render any security measures ineffective. I shall remind you of these issues at appropriate points in the unit. The need for security in communication networks is not new. In the late nineteenth century an American undertaker named Almon Strowger (Figure 1) discovered that he was losing business to his rivals because telephone operators,...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...human artefacts, and hence all capital equipment, are wiped out in an extraordinary natural disaster. Human beings survive unharmed and set about constructing their capital stock, and other artefacts, all over again. This is an immense task but in a decade or so the job is done. In the second thought experiment we imagine once again that all capital equipment is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Understanding PCSO powers
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding PCSO powers

...human wellbeing and it is how we learn to understand each other’s needs and concerns. However, in life, it is possible to belong to more than one community (for example, geographic, academic, sporting and religious communities). These different communities will have varying needs from one another and are likely to be affected by different issues. Benefits can be wide...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...resources out there, even though they can often give contradictory advice! Included here are some resources. Video 2 includes mention of OFSTED, the school inspection service in England. [MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER There's always challenges in schools, which make you sit-in your office, that email to be answered, that parent to be dealt with, or that matter that's arisen. But...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs