Health and wellbeing

This policy briefing covers key messages and policy recommendations, including the need to consider public health aspects in planning decisions and the power of combining legislative and policy directives with the voluntary commitment of developers to create sustainable and healthy places.…Read more

This paper from Families, Relationships and Societies, considers how research on families living in poverty, specifically those in Israel during the Covid-19 pandemic, is often at risk of objectifying the poor or blaming them for their circumstances. …Read more

Peter Beresford introduces a webinar which will offer an important chance to articulate and explore the issues around user involvement in mental health policy and provision.…Read more

The pandemic has significantly altered the experiences of families of prisoners and how they maintain contact with their loved ones in prison. Maria Adams looks at new questions thrown up by the replacement of prison visits by video calls.…Read more

“The mad yellow book” gives a voice through a graphic novel to the marginalised working-class experience. Lisa McKenzie of Working Class Collective reflects on how The Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class brought people together, through the solidarity it created virtually. …Read more

Dan McQuillan looks at the dangerous capacity of AI to criminalise women in the wake of Roe vs Wade and calls for ways of coming together that invert algorithmic exclusion via mutual aid and solidarity.…Read more

Gary Craig, co-editor of The Modern Slavery Agenda, looks at how Mo Farah revealing his story now has raised public consciousness about slavery.…Read more

Space for relational and community-based support are limited by the dominance of market-oriented, computer-based tasks, medication and risk-focused interventions. Rich Moth looks at how neoliberal reorganisation of services has actually taken community mental health practice in the opposite direction.  …Read more

Emma Bond and Andy Phippen, authors of 'Safeguarding Adults Online: Perspectives on Rights to Participation', grapple with the thorny issue of supporting adults with learning difficulties in their digital lives without compromising their privacy and participation rights.…Read more

Tony Manzanetti reviews 'End of the Road: Remaking the Street as the Heart of the City' by William Riggs, a book that illuminates the importance of streets as an economic, social and natural space.…Read more