Dismantling UK's Welfare State: the job is only half done. Will your charity, your support system survive?

The New Year news from the government is that, if re-elected in 2015, it will cut a further £25 billion from public spending – with £12 billion coming from welfare.

While we can rightly focus on this or that group of vulnerable people who will suffer or die as a result, the underlying story is that

What is the status of multiagency keyworking in England? Are there any keyworkers now? What happened to the generously funded CCNUK? Can you provide information?

Peter Limbrick writes: This is an appeal for information about established multiagency keyworking projects in England for children and adults. We will publish a list of all valid projects that are sent to us.

There was great interest in keyworking during the first few years of this century but it s

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

On the Good Ship Disability: Are you sundeck or steerage?

'...there can be aimless and empty days with a sense of going nowhere. Life in steerage can be desperate, lonely, unhealthy, disabling and depressed'

I have not been on an ocean liner but I am well aware of the great contrast between conditions on the upper decks and down in steerage. So, who is on

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.