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Dogs Helping Kids is a unique charity with its headquarters based in North Devon, England. We are the only organisation in the country training and assessing dogs purely to work in the school and college environments as both educational and therapeutic aids. We are evolving and growing all the time, and we have the highest standards of canine welfare and wellbeing in the country. The impact our School Dogs have on children and teenagers in the educational environment is amazing and changes lives forever. It is our vision to have a DHK School Dog working in every school and college across the country. Click here to read more

There are many reasons to have strong and worthy opinions that need to be voiced, especially as of late. The pandemic has brought about myths that, when propagated, could threaten public health. And a modern civil rights movement is illuminating the systemic racism that continues to empower white supremacy everywhere—including in the workplace, in health-care, and in wellness spaces. So when someone in your live voices and defends a perspective you don’t agree with and feel you can’t simply brush under the rug, what’s best way to handle that conflict? Should you take a stand or not engage? Click here to read more

This website presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the British Isles. While it is primarily designed to support teachers and students studying migration to Britain, its aim is to be a useful resource for anyone interested in Britain’s migration history. This site is organised through stories of individuals and groups. These stories are told through a diverse range of historical source material and are arranged into four time-period categories: AD43-1500; 1500-1750; 1750-1900; 1900-2000s. Across each period, you will find images, quotations, newspaper clippings, Parliamentary reports, videos, poems, extracts from novels, and many other materials that present the successes, challenges, obstacles and surprises faced by Britain’s migrants over more than a thousand…

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A key text for challenging ageism and promoting dignified practice. Dr Sue Thompson presents invaluable guidance on how to take care of older people in positive empowering ways that avoid common ageist assumptions and practices. This is an essential guide to good practice in eldercare. Available to purchase here or here

Most workplaces seem to be very pressurized places these days. One of the dangers of this is that some people respond to pressures in ways that can make the situation worse. For example, it is not uncommon for busy people not to take a break. They seem to think that they are so busy that they just have to press on. But if we don’t give our bodies and our minds the opportunity to recover from the strain we put them under in pressurized circumstances, we risk making ourselves ill through stress. We are also more likely to make mistakes, to be less creative, to fail to learn, to be more anxious and defensive in our practice, to gain less…

People living on the streets can get help with everyday needs other than housing while they're homeless and sleeping on the street. This includes, but is not limited to, the following; food, showering and bathing, laundry, advice, healthcare, benefit claims, belongings storage, dog care, voting Click here to read more

The Fawcett Society are working in partnership with the Runnymede Trust to deliver a project exploring the pay and progression of women of colour.Building on the Government’s Race Disparity Unit’s work and the independent McGregor-Smith Review, we will explore in depth ways to unlock the potential of women of colour at work, by understanding the inequalities and intersecting barriers they experience, and the solutions they think would help to overcome them. The project aims to gather a clear picture of the points at which intersecting gender and ethnicity differences in pay and progression begin to set in, for different groups of women. We will be exploring what intersecting or multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage, as well as resources, mean…

There are fairly good arguments for optimism and pessimism both. Optimists, who see the best in everything, are likely to have a sunnier disposition; pessimists, on the other hand, would argue that their negative expectations never leave them disappointed when the worst actually happens.But in the end, it might be realists who win out. According to a study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, being realistic about your life outcomes is likely to make you happier than overestimating them. David de Meza from the London School of Economics and Chris Dawson from the University of Bath examined data from 1,601 individuals who took part in the British Household Panel Survey between 1991 and 2009. This longitudinal survey covers a…

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