How to write a 'not-good-enough' report when local treatment, care, or education services are below standard

Peter Limbrick writes: The UK coalition government brought in the Localism Act to give, they say, power to local people in England (extracts below*). We should make use of this government initiative now that we have seen how desperate conditions are in some of our maternity units, care homes and ger

TAC, keyworkers and empowerment. A briefing paper by Peter Limbrick

'Why don't the people helping my child talk to each other?' 'Why can't I have just one special person who helps me join it all together?' 'Whose child is it anyway?'

This paper is writtern to answer some basic questions parents ask; 'Why don't the people helping my child talk to each other?',

The Foundation for Public Utility of Enterprise Health Care. 12 steps in Hell

1 On 14 July 1933, an act was passed concerning ‘the preventive measures for giving birth to individuals with hereditary defects’, which left the possibility of practising euthanasia open for Nazi doctors, and introduced a precedent for using law against practically any form of human life.

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Welfare state out. Big business in. 'Big Society' is nonsense!

As the UK coalition government reduces the size of the state we all become hapless victims of greedy totalitarianism.

Editorial comment: In a discussion about the validity of the institutions of state, Chomsky observes:

The reason why transnational corporations are so interested in the liberals

Disableism, racism and young children. An essay by Jane Lane

Some children and young people (and, of course, adults) will be subject to discrimination because of their disability and because of their race. In this article, Jane Lane invites all of us to be aware of the potential for this dual inequality and to consider how the two discriminations can interact

Action research: when the practitioner becomes the researcher. An essay by Dr Penny Lacey

In this article I am intending to describe and explore action research and show how I have used the approach in my own educational research. I will also provide some examples of projects written up for master's dissertations in the hope that you, the reader, will be encouraged to conduct your own ac

Editorial: When unemployed people are 'shirkers' and disabled people are 'scroungers'

There are people who want most of the cake. No matter how big or small the cake is there are people who think that they and their friends and their children should have most of it.

In 1942 Sir William Beveridge laid the foundations for the UK Welfare State. The idea was to collect weekly national

The dangers of mobile phone and wi-fi radiation. If the radiation were orange we would all see it as dangerous pollution.

Here is news of research from Sweden and public health concern in India.

Sweden:

In a newly-released study conducted at the Örebro Hospita in Sweden, it was revealed that 10 years of cellphone use resulted in an average 290% increased risk of brain tumor development. Interestingly, the tumor develo

1 On 14 July 1933, an act was passed concerning ‘the preventive measures for giving birth to individuals with hereditary defects’, which left the possibility of practising euthanasia open for Nazi doctors, and introduced a precedent for using law against practically any form of human life.

2 ...

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