given that social media is now integral to the way many young people interact.A good starting point is a basic understanding of childhood development milestones. Broadly,children have a high dependency on carers for security and guidance up to the age of 5,increasing independence and self-care ...
Healthcare services are united in facing the coronavirus pandemic, with many thousands of vital workers and carers at the frontline. Unprecedented measures have been put in place worldwide to meet this challenge – such as recalling retired medical staff and deploying final...
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If your relationship with your parents or carers has broken down (also known as ‘estranged’), there are people you can turn to for help when you research your options, start your application, or think about your transition to university or college.
Many will have suffered gaps in their education due the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. This makes it more difficult to predict what knowledge or skills our students will have when they arrive with us. Where do we start when planning our teaching? We suggest here that using a ...
"I'm not saying this was misguided, although it was definitely engineered: The idea that what was needed was to get cheap calories to as many people as possible, as fast as possible, and that led to a kind of processing industry which actually in structure doesn't look ...
Background Research has found that caring affects carers physically, mentally, and emotionally (Davidson & Gentry, 2013; Carers UK, 2020), with many carers reporting getting no breaks at all (Carers UK, 2021) and often suffering financially and socially (Bruhn, 2016). This has been exacerbated...
The Covid-19 pandemic, and in particular the lockdowns and associated changes to many public-facing services, have highlighted the severity of digital exclusion, and acted as a catalyst for conversations around how to tackle it. In the UK, the past few years have seen a proliferation of ini...
This was also the year she celebrated her Golden Jubilee. "My family and I always knew what she meant for the people of this country and the special place she occupied in the hearts of so many here, in the Commonwealth and in other parts of the world. ...
Many of our survey items, including our experiment, ask about perceptions of – and spending on – those ‘in their sixties’ rather than those ‘aged 66+’ (the current state retirement age). This makes it inappropriate to include respondents of that age themselves in our sample, for this...