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Working with children and families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working with children and families

...caring for children. It draws on interviews with a wide-ranging selection of professionals, from people who deal directly with children at nurseries or schools to those that help shape national policy, to throw light on national initiatives and schemes such as ChildLine, and explore family life from different perspectives and social levels. This material forms part of The...
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...care for relatives of her mother who were in poor health. [This is a map of Guyana] Map showing the location of Guyana At 18, Betty entered the world of work, beginning in the Department of Transport and Harbours before joining the civil service in the Housing and Planning Authority. Here she took on the role of Women’s Housing Officer, interviewing families, and...
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...Care, one of the specialist mental health trusts already applying a zero strategy. His plans are at an early stage, but he is setting out to create a Zero Suicide foundation. He wants it to identify good practices across the 55 mental health trusts in England and create a new strategy to be applied everywhere. The zero approach is a proactive strategy that aims to...
What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?

...cared for in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) receive antibiotics in the first two days of life, regardless of their health status. And a majority of those receive many more days of treatment. “Extremely preterm infants often have multiple medical problems, with symptoms of prematurity overlapping with other conditions like infection,” said co-author Barbara B....
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...adult literacy seem to highlight the connection between economic development and low adult literacy rates. [Described image] (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2014) Figure 1 World youth literacy map However, we also noted that, as indicated by Leach (2014), developing literacy for all in an empowering way and for social betterment is not a straightforward, unproblematic...
Ap Gofalu Trwy'r Gymraeg
Education & Development

Ap Gofalu Trwy'r Gymraeg

...wrth i'w Cymraeg wella. [CCC Caring In Welsh App page] Dyluniwyd, datblygwyd a recordiwyd sain yr ap gan Galactig. Y gyflwynwraig Nia Parry leisiodd yr ap. Darganfyddwch fwy. [Logo Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol] Darparwyd yr adnodd hwn gan Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol ac mae'n rhan o'r hwb Barod ar gyfer Prifysgol. Gallwch ddod o hyd i fwy o adnoddau fel hyn ar hafan yr hwb....
Early childhood health promotion
Education & Development

Early childhood health promotion

...Care (ECEC) Practitioners. The Toolkit includes a 5 Step Programme as a model to guide practitioners in identifying and implementing a health promotion activity. The research foregrounds the valuable role that ECEC can contribute to promoting the health of babies and young children. Health can be improved and promoted through implementation of many of the aims of the...
Ecosystems: living communities
Science, Maths & Technology

Ecosystems: living communities

...the role of the sun, carbon, and energy interactions between organisms in ecosystems Humans enter the equation How human activity affects the delicate energy balance in an ecosystem with often adverse consequences Managing or meddling? How ecosystems need careful understanding if we are to sustain them for the future whilst using them to our economic advantage...