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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...family of four young children under the age of eight. Several weeks later an aunt investigated, and found the children, still at home, in a filthy condition and half starved. They had survived only by eating raw vegetables from the garden. No-one had checked. All the family members had assumed that someone else had taken them. Despite their ordeal, and to the surprise of...
Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...family or friends close by. In this first of a series of four OpenLearn articles linking to The Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) Series structured around Five Pillars for Ageing Well that run every year at The Open University, we are going to discuss why we are so unprepared and what we all could do to find a different approach. Our series articles will go into more detail...
Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...family will obviously tend to have a strong influence on children’s developing ethnic identities. The family is, after all, the first experience that most children will have of being a member of an ethnic group and we already know just how influential parents can be in shaping children’s ways of thinking, interests and tastes. However it is important to understand...
They can cage a child, but they can't frame the agenda
Society, Politics & Law

They can cage a child, but they can't frame the agenda

...Families Belong Together protest] Women Of Faith Cry Out: A protest against Trump's policies outside the Washington offices of US Customs And Border Protection By now, you’ve probably heard about the family separation and detention policies at the U.S. border. The facts are horrifying. Recent media coverage has led to a flurry of outrage and debate about the origins of...
The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...family carers is rising and predicted to continue to rise. As a result, caring will touch most of our lives; more than three in five of us will be a carer at some point. In addition, increasing numbers of people are likely to care more than once and care for two people at the same time. This all means that currently 20% (one in five) of the UK population are carers...
Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...families, formal and informal carers, health, and social care professionals (and anyone else who might have to make decisions about our care). It empowers the family and the team of professionals to make decisions in a timely manner. Research in England indicates that when someone has had an advance care plan in place at the time of death, the bereaved were more likely to...
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...family. Betty had two sisters and two brothers, a gentle retiring mother and an inspiring father who taught her to play chess, tennis and bridge. She did well at St Joseph’s convent school. While continuing her education at Carnegie College of Domestic Science, she was very involved in helping to care for relatives of her mother who were in poor health. [This is a map...
Do sperm whales speak with local accents?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do sperm whales speak with local accents?

...families, which belong to clans. Whitehead, along with his colleagues, has elegantly shown over the past two decades that it is hard to explain the differences we observed between sperm whale clans without invoking culture. In their new work, they show these clans are not just a passive aggregation of genetically related families. We need to invoke the influence of...