Health, Sports & Psychology
One question can change everything
UNICEF has teamed up with spoken word artist @clickfortaz, in support of adolescents living with a mental health condition. ...Transcript.
Health, Sports & Psychology
How can I support bereaved neurodivergent children?
...Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Not everyone experiences grief in the same way. Whilst under-researched, there is evidence that neurodivergent people may experience grief, as well as the social practices around death and bereavement, differently from others. This is thought to be related to their neurodivergence – in the differences in how their...
Society, Politics & Law
The story of a female postal worker
...health and safety and how to ‘prep a frame’. You are then left to your own devices. “We come in each day and break down our mail. It comes to us in boxes and we tie these down into bundles and bags to assist with our own delivery.” Casual workers/temps are treated differently within the workforce, they are trained less than permanent workers as well. Postal...
Health, Sports & Psychology
How to keep your kidneys healthy
...health and emphasis is placed on the preventative aspects of care, to minimise the risk of kidney disease...10 March is World Kidney Day! Learn more by exploring www.worldkidneyday.org What are the kidneys and what do they do? [A medical model with detachable organs laid out on a pink background] The kidneys are paired bean-shaped organs located in the lower back region....
Education & Development
'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
...public sphere and highlight racial disparities within the criminal justice systems in both the UK and the US. One response (by politicians, governments, the media, police forces) is to blame the individual officers involved in the incident, labelling them as ‘bad apples’, i.e. a few individual police officers deemed to be solely responsible for these so-called...
Society, Politics & Law
Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
...health care or other support for lengthening periods. Increasing racism and hostility towards minority ethnic and religious groups are part of making life unbearable for some of those who have fled persecution. A hostile environment In 2012, home secretary Theresa May set out to “create a really hostile environment for illegal migrants”. Beginning in 2015, new...
Society, Politics & Law
Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement
...public sector since the GFA do not stand up to scrutiny. Rather a successively weak private sector and a historical legacy of large staple industries seems a better explanation. Figure 1 below displays the relative performance of Gross National Product (GDP) per head in Northern Ireland since 1998. What appears to be common to all conflicts is that economic inequality is...
Health, Sports & Psychology
FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
...Health in England mandated that all healthcare trusts and primary care practices collate and report individual-level data, about women and girls in England who accessed healthcare services because of FGM. This is undertaken via the national FGM Enhanced Dataset database (SCCI 2026), Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) Female Genital Mutilation - NHS England...