Supporting Parent Carers’ Emotional Wellbeing: Guidance for Health, Education and Social Care Professionals. Can you help with this paper?

‘This is your job but this is our life.’ – Parent Carer

Paper by Joanna Griffin, Counselling Psychologist, Dr Emma Johnston, Clinical Psychologist, Jane Steeples, Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

Introduction

Parents of children who have special education needs or disabilities (SEND) or additional learn

Birth defects surveillance: atlas of selected congenital anomalies - WHO

'because of their severity and frequency, these depicted conditions have significant public health impact'

From their website: "This Atlas of selected congenital anomalies is a companion tool to Birth defects surveillance: a manual for programme managers, and is intended to help in the development,

The Effectiveness of Hippotherapy to Recover Gross Motor Function in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

By Laura De Guindos-Sanchez, David Lucena-Anton, Jose A. Moral-Munoz, Alejandro Salazar and Ines Carmona-Barrientos

Abstract: 'Cerebral palsy (CP) is a permanent disorder of the posture and movement, which can result in impairments of gross motor function, among others. Hippotherap

Multi professional working: how the efficacy of integrated teams is impacted by, and how team dynamics impacts upon, individual professional experiences. Can you help with this research?

This project aims to explore the experiences of different people working within a multi professional team supporting children and young people

This research will try to understand how different professionals perceive their own role within a multi professional team and what barriers they may ha

The value of gene modifying therapy by RNA editing

From the website of RettSyndrome.org

"Gene modifying therapies as a whole offer great promise as potentially curative treatments for genetic disorders like Rett syndrome because they target such diseases at their root cause: genetic mutations.

"The most well studied gene modifying therapies rely on

5G – Bias and conflict of interest at the BBC (UK)

Paper by Annelie Fitzgerald , member of Safe Schools Information Technology Alliance (SSITA)

Extract:

'In addition to adverse impacts on human health, issues with 5G include privacy intrusions and increased surveillance, as well as harm to flora and fauna and the wider environment, e.g. through mor

kContact intervention offers support for birth parents of children in care - Report

-- kContact keeping contact between parents in children in care --

The kContact project team recently published a paper in the international journal Child Abuse & Neglect.

kContact is the largest trial to date testing the effectiveness of a contact intervention in the out-of-home car

A doctor’s views on UK government’s plans for Covid vaccination

“It is a huge responsibility to impose a medical intervention on a healthy person who may not directly benefit from it, and who may be made sick by it...”

The UK government recently ran a public consultation about vaccinations for the Covid virus. Dr Elizabeth Evans has kindly offered her response f