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Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...Adults Assessing and supporting the support and care needs of older people in the community. Assessing and supporting the care needs of adults with physical and/or learning disabilities in the community. Assessing and supporting the care needs of adults with mental health problems in the community. Working in residential care homes ......
5 things you need to know about sepsis
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 things you need to know about sepsis

...care. 3: Identifying sepsis, whether in yourself or someone else is challenging - because symptoms are varied Using sepsis as an acronym, the most common symptoms are described: S severe shortness of breath E extremely cold hands or feet P palpitations or racing heart S slurred speech I I have never felt so bad S shivering uncontrollably Public health campaigns aim to...
Mental Health: Lennox Castle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental Health: Lennox Castle

...Care explains why the case study was selected for study and unpicks some of the issues that emerge. The material forms part of The Open University course K101 An introduction to health and social care... Mental Health: Lennox Castle A short introduction to this album. An introduction to health and social care Professor Joanna Bornat of the K101 course team gives an...
Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?
Languages

Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?

...adults who arrive in Australia under different visa classes. This policy will inevitably lead to two classes of permanent Australian residents, one of them an underclass without access to the privileges of citizenship. Is this what the Australian government wants? It is beyond question that English is the national language of Australia but we also need to recognize that...
We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
Education & Development

We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education

...adults. Furthermore, of those adults, it is likely that most respondents will have been home-educating mothers (or female adult). These responses were discussed in the Photovoice stage of the research where young people were able to discuss their part in answering the survey. Graph 1: Q5 Indicate how much value you place on the given statements (Highest Value –v- Lowest...
I had cancer - now stop supporting just me
Health, Sports & Psychology

I had cancer - now stop supporting just me

...Care courses and qualifications. What’s it like to be a teenager with cancer? What changes? Does anything change? We’ve all had questions about cancer. It’s scary. And unfamiliar to most. When did you get cancer? I was sixteen. It was my sixth and final year of high school. Pressures and prospects on the horizon. At that time there’s a certain degree of planning...
The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars
Society, Politics & Law

The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars

...care as the “reasonable” person or company would have done in the circumstances. The law recognises that perfection is unattainable, and so the courts have to decide in each case what would constitute reasonable care. The provision of a test driver could be seen as fulfilling Google’s duty of care to compensate for possible shortcomings in the car’s algorithms,...
Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...adults, and can involve conversations that are sensitive or tricky to navigate. Creative methods formed an important part of my study Child Language Brokering: Spaces of Belonging and Mediators of Cultural Knowledge (funded by the AHRC under the Translating Cultures Innovation Pathway). In conjunction with more traditional social science methods, it aimed to provide new...