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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...families, prison staff and society at large. They are also concerned with the continued failure of prisons to fulfil any of their stated aims or purposes...[Barbed wire fencing on a prison wall] Below we consider a range of questions that often arise whenever the idea of prison abolition is raised and offer some detailed, but concise, responses that may be used as a...
They can cage a child, but they can't frame the agenda
Society, Politics & Law

They can cage a child, but they can't frame the agenda

...Families Belong Together protest] Women Of Faith Cry Out: A protest against Trump's policies outside the Washington offices of US Customs And Border Protection By now, you’ve probably heard about the family separation and detention policies at the U.S. border. The facts are horrifying. Recent media coverage has led to a flurry of outrage and debate about the origins of...
Clickety Clack: a railway poem
Society, Politics & Law

Clickety Clack: a railway poem

...History courses. [A women worker on the railways, first world war, sitting in front of a cargo vehicle, uniform, wearing a cap and smiling.]Clickety Clack Clickety Clack The rhythm of the railway track. With all the men folk off to war. It’s women left to do the chores Corsets and skirts are cast aside Whistles, trousers, gold buttons worn with pride. Clickety Clack...
The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...family carers is rising and predicted to continue to rise. As a result, caring will touch most of our lives; more than three in five of us will be a carer at some point. In addition, increasing numbers of people are likely to care more than once and care for two people at the same time. This all means that currently 20% (one in five) of the UK population are carers...
Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...families, formal and informal carers, health, and social care professionals (and anyone else who might have to make decisions about our care). It empowers the family and the team of professionals to make decisions in a timely manner. Research in England indicates that when someone has had an advance care plan in place at the time of death, the bereaved were more likely to...
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...family. Betty had two sisters and two brothers, a gentle retiring mother and an inspiring father who taught her to play chess, tennis and bridge. She did well at St Joseph’s convent school. While continuing her education at Carnegie College of Domestic Science, she was very involved in helping to care for relatives of her mother who were in poor health. [This is a map...
Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...history a woman is the presidential nominee of one of the two major political parties in the country. And though I have some policy differences with Hillary Clinton, there is one thing she understands better than any of the others who vied for the nomination – that the security of women and the security of the world are integrally linked. The empirical evidence for this...
Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...family moved to England for my Dad’s job in the early 1970s. Born in Ireland, raised in England, I have now lived in Belfast for 25 years, so issues of national identity, where you belong, and where people think you belong, were impressed upon me from quite an early age. The Irish border revisited Firstly, a potted (imperfect) history of the border for those unfamiliar...