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Society, Politics & Law
Applying social work law with children and families
...Health, Social Services and Public Safety, 2017)...Applying social work law with children and families: 5 Family - It is difficult to define the notion of a ‘family’. Although some people may still have a stereotypical image of a family – a mother, father and two children – this is not the family form that many people will have experienced. Nearly half of all...
History & The Arts
Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
...publication ensured an incompleteness and lack of closure, and required readers to assemble installments as sequential parts of a disconnected whole. What Dickens searched for was an adaptive model for improving upon the fragmentary form of serial fiction. As Dawson persuasively suggests, “What was necessary, in both paleontological reconstructions and the composition...
Health, Sports & Psychology
The science of chocolate
...health warnings or stories proclaiming the latest superfood which can provide miraculous health benefits. And very often, the stories completely contradict previous reports about the same item. You know the sort of thing – one month you hear that red wine is good for you, then other scientists come out and say no it isn’t, and then yet a third study might indicate...
Science, Maths & Technology
Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
...public, best keep themselves informed about the extent to which advances in AI may impact on the economy, as well as our society? A recent consultation by the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence has called for evidence on the economic, ethical and social implications of advances in artificial intelligence [call for evidence PDF]. The consultation...
Society, Politics & Law
Five surprising facts about sex and the pandemic
...Quasi-Representative Survey (Natsal-COVID), Lancet https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3862586 Arafat SMY, Kar SK. Sex During Pandemic: Panic Buying of Sex Toys During COVID-19 Lockdown. Journal of Psychosexual Health. 2021;3(2):175-177. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352192866_Sex_During_Pandemic_Panic_Buying_of_Sex_Toys_During_COVID-19_Lockdown...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital
...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Walking the Walk is an experienced-based approach to quality improvement. It has previously been successfully utilised in acute hospitals, care homes, and GP surgeries. It draws on people’s lived experiences to provide settings with feedback and recommendations about the care environment. It involves three stages: scene...
Society, Politics & Law
Strategies to reduce the prison population
...health, drug-taking and the release of prisoners being kept indeterminately for “public protection” that could be progressive, but only if interventions operate outside from the criminal law. The age of criminal responsibility should be raised as soon as possible from 10 to 16 years and diversion schemes introduced which keep young people out of the criminal process....