Children, Young People and Families
Helen Penn discusses how far we’ve come away from the community nurseries of the 1980s: a local accountable service for local people. Now it’s big business and the children are not the beneficiaries.…Read more
The era of climate boiling – the Pyrocene – is upon us. Extreme heat and wildfire events are both widespread and regular. Celia Roberts, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Louisa Allen and Rebecca Williamson propose the term Pyro-reproduction to explore the ways in which people forge ways of life in such conditions. …Read more
Bozena Wielgoszewska reports her findings on why the pandemic affected women’s employment rates more adversely than men’s. …Read more
The authors of a recent article for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence conducted surveys with festival attendees to see the extent of safety at music festivals. These findings revealed that women consistently reported a distressing normalisation of unwelcome attention, harassment, invasive touching and violence.…Read more
Robin Sen and Christian Kerr respond to the BBC's 'Teens In Care' documentary and discuss how it didn't cover society and the government's role in letting down young people in the care system.…Read more
Ceryl Teleri Davies, author of 'Understanding Abuse in Young People’s Intimate Relationships', welcomes the shift in focus to the harmful impact of gendered social norms on the prevalence of abusive behaviour. …Read more
Julia Margaret Zulver reveals how the mothers of the 100,000 missing children in Mexico mark Mother’s Day.…Read more
Robin Sen and Christian Kerr speak to Jess Miles about the recent 'once in a generation' MacAlister Review of Childrens Social Care in England.…Read more
Richard Machin looks at the UK’s response to the financial & housing needs of Ukrainian refugees, more than a year on from the Russian invasion, and argues that a stronger safety net is needed.…Read more
In this episode, Jess Miles speaks with Luke Billingham and Keir Irwin-Rogers, authors of 'Against Youth Violence', about a new way of making sense of youth violence by putting it in the context of social harm.…Read more