Comment
25 March 2022

Richard Garside’s recent piece on the problems the voluntary sector encounters in achieving real...

Comment
21 March 2022

In a recent article on this website Richard Garside issued a plea about the current state of...

Comment
18 March 2022

“I was so scared. I felt completely helpless. I was a single mum, in the pandemic, living by...

Comment
11 March 2022

How do we escape the monotony of repeated policy failure? How do we instead do something...

Comment
10 March 2022

I recently read a book that covers, with an impressive historical sweep, some of the tumultuous...

Comment
16 February 2022

Systemic violence refers to emotional, psychological, and physical harm from social structures,...

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10 February 2022

"I often wondered if, stumbling upon a service user in cardiac arrest, my immediate reaction...

Comment
7 February 2022

Last week, my colleague Helen Mills spoke at an event organised by JENGbA (Joint Enterprise, Not...

Comment
4 February 2022

There is a lot about discussion and debate over the placement and housing of transgender...

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21 January 2022

Over the festive season I re-read a book by Mark Leech, which had not only left an indelible...

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Geraldine Brown
20 January 2022

Women very rarely commit a violent crime or pose any risk to the public, so why do about 600...

Comment
10 December 2021

The ongoing Justice Committee inquiry into the dreadful Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP...