'...there can be aimless and empty days with a sense of going nowhere. Life in steerage can be desperate, lonely, unhealthy, disabling and depressed'
I have not been on an ocean liner but I am well aware of the great contrast between conditions on the upper decks and down in steerage. So, who is on
Read more: On the Good Ship Disability: Are you sundeck or steerage?
Peter Limbrick writes: The UK coalition government brought in the Localism Act to give, they say, power to local people in England (extracts below*). We should make use of this government initiative now that we have seen how desperate conditions are in some of our maternity units, care homes and ger
'Why don't the people helping my child talk to each other?' 'Why can't I have just one special person who helps me join it all together?' 'Whose child is it anyway?'
This paper is writtern to answer some basic questions parents ask; 'Why don't the people helping my child talk to each other?',
Read more: TAC, keyworkers and empowerment. A briefing paper by Peter Limbrick
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Peter Limbrick writes: This is an appeal for information about established multiagency keyworking projects in England for children and adults. We will publish a list of all valid projects that are sent to us.
There was great interest in keyworking during the first few years of this century but it s
Some children and young people (and, of course, adults) will be subject to discrimination because of their disability and because of their race. In this article, Jane Lane invites all of us to be aware of the potential for this dual inequality and to consider how the two discriminations can interact
Read more: Disableism, racism and young children. An essay by Jane Lane
In this article I am intending to describe and explore action research and show how I have used the approach in my own educational research. I will also provide some examples of projects written up for master's dissertations in the hope that you, the reader, will be encouraged to conduct your own ac
Read more: Action research: when the practitioner becomes the researcher. An essay by Dr Penny Lacey
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
Read more: Editorial: When unemployed people are 'shirkers' and disabled people are 'scroungers'
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011