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Blog: Coping with bereavement during the Covid-19 pandemic
For the past 10 years, the charity I founded has been providing bereavement support to people who lose a loved one to cancer. The whole premise of our support at The...
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Blog: Another way of grieving
Around 6,000 people under the age of 24 die in the UK every year, leaving up to 50,000 bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents. The death of a child is always a...
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Blog: From grief to hope
Each year some 6,500 people die by suicide in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics. Each suicide impacts a further 135 people - and many of those who...
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Blog: How to sustain the difficult work to end FGM
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a violent gender inequality. Globally over 200 million women and girls have been cut. Their families and communities will give many...
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Blog: How art can help vulnerable adults during lockdown
In March this year, Artlink West Yorkshire - the arts and health charity in Leeds where I work - had to close its offices and stop all delivery activity for the...
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Blog: LGBTQ+ community spaces
In October, Manchester City Council announced a housing scheme for people over the age of 55 who identify as LGBTQ+. This is the UK’s first extra-care housing scheme...
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Blog: From sleeping on the streets, to hotels, to where?
‘Frank’ had been sleeping rough in Bristol for 32 years. Can you imagine what that was like for Frank, especially given that he also suffers from military post traumatic...
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Blog: Protecting young people at risk of self-harm and suicide
Suicide rates among the under 25s have increased in recent years, particularly among 10-24-year-old females, according to the Office for National Statistics. Suicides...
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Blog: Protecting infants during the second lockdown
Official figures now confirm that what many of us feared has happened: violent abuse to babies under the age of one has risen in the year of lockdown. Data from Ofsted...
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Blog: Teaching controversial topics in the classroom
The tragic murder of a French history teacher in October has highlighted the perils and importance of tackling controversial topics in the classroom, and the need to do...