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Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...think or can bear to think our children or the children we know can be involved. Increasingly we are becoming aware of the exploitation of children across the nations and regions of the UK although the targeting of our children and young people may take different forms depending on where you live. If you were to ask children and young people, they would describe child...
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...system. So I think being very aware that not all things are equal and being able to react to that and give people the support they need has been really important for us. And it wasn't easy. Those first three or four months, I was still working in technology at that point, was a Herculean task. To be able to get everybody the tools that they needed to be able to do the job...
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...system economic development immigration and nationality tourism energy: electricity, coal, gas and nuclear energy criminal law common markets civil law trade and industry, including competition and customer protection agriculture and food railways, transport safety and regulation sport and the arts employment legislation planning social security and child support social...
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...thinks of itself as a 'world city'. Moreover it is politically interesting – and heartening – because it is a claim to place that is open rather than bounded, hospitable rather than excluding, as ever-changing rather than eternal. And nothing that follows is meant to gainsay that. What I should like to explore about this imagination of place held by so many Londoners,...
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ. See previous article in series: Designing your research question Before working through this article, you should have settled on your research question. This article will support you through the next steps in the research cycle (Figure...
Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment
Nature & Environment

Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment

...system, its not as accurate as the old system but can usually position the quadrats to within 5cm of where they should be which is fine and is usually significantly quicker as you don’t have to hunt for the fixed points and there is no delicate equipment to carefully set up on a heavy tripod. The gps also gives the locations in latitude/longitude or ordinance survey...
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Money & Business

Risk management

...thinking: high-hazard systems normally have several controls and care is taken to make sure these controls cannot be circumvented by a ‘common mode of failure’ controls that rely on people are normally the least effective controls that are directive should not be the sole prevention for high-impact risks...Session 8: Risk specialisms: 3 Project risk management - Much...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...Thinking beyond sectors for sustainable Development) contributes to this effort critiquing what progress has been made so far on the MDGs and introducing current debates to help set the post 2015 agenda. Some of the points raised are: on the limitations of focus of previous goals e.g. deciding whether it is climate change adaptation and or mitigation required; presence of...