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

The 'Big Society', secular horizontality and, of course, Team Around the Child

'I am merely advocating that we gently and determinedly hijack the coalition's Big Society in order to shift the balance towards horizontality as far as we can.'

Editorial comment: I have not read in detail about the UK coalition government's Big Society, but I get the general idea of reducing the

Early childhood intervention is stubbornly stuck in the age of black and white television

'My baby is in pieces all around the city. It feels like she does not belong to me anymore'

(Editorial for TAC Bulletin for June 2011)

I may not have got the words exactly as they were spoken, but this appeal came to me when I was a keyworker with One Hundred Hours during the 1990s.[1] I want

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

Useless and harmful therapy in the horizontal landscape

Beware the therapist whose certificate comes from a summer school, who has a one-size-fits-all programme, and who wants to work in splendid isolation!

Editorial: The horizontal landscape is the place where multiagency and multidisciplinary practitioners meet each other and the service user (o

Lost in the disabled infant therapy circus?

Editorial comment (2011)

The coalition government wants to move provision of services away from the statutory sector and towards the voluntary and community sector. This piece in the Big Society jigsaw will inevitably, in my view, open up a market in the early-childhood-intervention world for ever m

Keyworking and multi-agency service co-ordination: Training and resources are essential

Keyworkers need co-ordination as much as disabled children and families do. They cannot create it on their own – especially while performing the rest of their duties in their main role

Peter Limbrick writes:

In the hope that there can be a national debate about these important resource issues before

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