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What exposure do black children have to racist teachers?
Read moreTo some extent, teachers inevitably reflect the breadth of attitudes in society, including those on race. Twenty-five per cent of the general public admit to having racist attitudes. Whilst this will likely be less amongst teachers, it is certain...
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Collective sense-making in this new world
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There's no doubt that these are painful and challenging times and the inequities that exist in this current socio-economic system have been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. The people across the networks we have the privilege of being a...
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A grassroots response to COVID-19
Read moreAs the director of a grassroots project, with a turnover of just £55k p/a and just five part time staff, all with self employed status, I always thought that our jobs were insecure and that we faced the greatest challenges for survival. I used...
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Rumblings, responses, and a new reality: early impacts of COVID-19 on our work and partnerships
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We have written about Lankelly Chase’s own response to the coronavirus emergency here. This is a separate blog to report on some of the things we’re hearing from our projects and partnerships. One of our learning frameworks is to look for...
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Introducing the Connected grants programme
Read moreIn Summer 2019 we published Hard Edges Scotland, which expanded on our initial statistical profile of severe and multiple disadvantage from 2015. Over the last few months we’ve taken this much further and published a whole range of new research...
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Patterns of severe and multiple disadvantage in women
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Many people will face a major adversity at some point in their life. A period of overwhelming depression or anxiety. Time in a violent or abusive relationship. Perhaps a spell with no home, or dependent on drugs or alcohol. Some people will...
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Hitting rock bottom: It didn’t have to be that way. One woman’s determination to see women-only services for women struggling to cope.
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My name is Katy *. I am 29 years old, have a 7-year-old boy and a job in the caring profession. The new Gender Matters report strikes a particular chord for me, highlighting the urgent need for women-only services. Every year, over...
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Women Healing Women – why vulnerable women need specialist services
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When I arrived in Bristol after having run away from an abusive relationship, I had a drug habit to feed, I had nowhere to live and I was losing my mind. Not just in the everyday sense - I was completely out of touch from reality. My Bipolar...
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Gender Matters: we all have to don our ‘gender goggles’
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Gender Matters is a report with personal resonance for us as women. We recognise the experience of ‘generic’ design (of services, research, products) actually being implicitly designed for men. We’re very lucky to work and thrive in a...
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The mainstream is broken. But for who?
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“The Mainstream media is broken” this was the rallying cry of over 100 people in 2017 as The Common Sense Network crowdfunded over £50,000 in 50 days to build a new independent news outlet for and by ordinary people. Whilst the phrase was...