The COVID-19 pandemic has not only resulted in more referrals to children’s services departments in local authorities being made, but also to more complex issues being reported. The so-called ‘toxic trio’ of substance abuse, domestic violence and poor mental health has been exacerbated by pressures caused by the pandemic according to a Department of Education […]
It is extremely difficult, if not impossible to legislate for emotions. This is a conundrum, known to sociologists as a ‘wicked problem’. In other words there is no scientifically probative ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer and the ‘solution’ may in fact give rise to a consequential raft of other societal and institutional problems, not yet apparent. […]
I ADMIT to the fact that the timing of this article has a tinge of dramatic irony about it, falling so contingent as it does to International Women’s Day and National Justice Week. The subject of such irony? The fact that, in the UK, a woman cannot be convicted of raping either a man or another […]
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