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Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...family and friends just as good? ...Quite often talking is the best form of therapy and having someone who knows you, who you can confide in and can talk back to you on a personal level based on the fact they know you, can sometimes be very comforting. (Service user quoted in Leach, 2015) [two people hugging in black and white] BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind programme,...
Why has the welfare cap become so complex?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has the welfare cap become so complex?

...families introduced in April 2013 has been one of the most supported policies introduced by the coalition. By setting the maximum eligibility at the median household income and excluding those working over 16 hours (24, if two workers) voters saw it as an equitable constraint which could, with support, also help people to better their circumstances by finding work. The...
Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...history – the position generally taken by young people - or whether purchasing the products meant somehow endorsing the values of 'the sex industry' to which the brand was inextricably linked. And even if it were the latter, should one explain this to children? - As one mother argued, 'you don't want to force them to think about things that they're innocently thinking...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...family has been a key social institution across human history, and transition stages, when new family members are born or when family members die or existing family members age and change roles, are common to all societies. The marking of transition stages are vastly diverse in nature, but naming ceremonies of babies have occurred right around the world over many...
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About Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

About Earth In Vision

...history with broadcasting written into the script. To this end, we have made three ebooks which draw directly on our sample of fifty hours of BBC programmes. The ebooks will be free to download, and will link to a website holding a sample of resources and archive content for free public use. Along with the programmes themselves we have been working in the BBC’s paper...
How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...history. My lifetime probably won’t last beyond 100 years if I’m lucky. But did you know that something we see nearly every day will far out live us. Not only that but it will see numerous of generations live and die - the tree. [Cathy and tree] Trees have been growing on earth since before the human population arrived. This tree is 400 years old, which means that it...
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...history, community and organisation matter, but also less pre-determined because these specifics are highly changeable. It can be difficult to think in scales of global economic tides and social values, but the individual, workplace, family or locality is easier to apprehend and to alter. A political aspect of open methodologies is that they approach methods not in terms...
What is Royal Assent - and why don't laws come into force straight away?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Royal Assent - and why don't laws come into force straight away?

...families wherever possible; to ensure that local authorities can provide services for children and families in need; to promote partnership between children, parents and local authorities; to improve the way courts deal with children and families; and to protect the rights of children. However, this Act did not come into force until 1991. If you read again the principles...