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...open their homes and hearts to children who cannot live with their own families, whether that be for a few days, weeks, months or even years. There can be many reasons why such situations arise, for example family illness, crisis, or situations where home isn’t safe. Fostering is unique in that it combines the responsibilities of parenting with professional duties, all...

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...accident study sourced from EF Loftus and JC Palmer, ‘Reconstruction of automobile destruction: an example of the interaction between language and memory’, Journal of Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974. About this article This article is based on extracts taken from the Open University Business School course Making a Difference (B830). Study a free psychology course...

...Open University (23 April 1969), the spaghetti Western - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was released. The film grossed over $25million at the box office in North America alone. The relevance of this, well it’s all in the title - 50 years of sports technology has thankfully provided us with a lot of ‘Good’, sorted out some of the ‘Bad’ and, unfortunately,...

...Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses We know that as we grow older, we are at higher risk of having multiple long-term health conditions, which we call multimorbidity, and using multiple medications, which we call polypharmacy. This combination of ageing, multimorbidity and polypharmacy inevitably comes with some risks – these are explored in a previous...