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Syringe and drugs

The New Normal

After Covid, is the future of drug and alcohol services digital? A switch to phone and online offerings might not…

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Posted in: Health

For parents, the fight to keep sex-segregated spaces goes on

It was Vicki Edwards’s own upbringing which led her to enter one of the most contentious debates of our time…

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The return of the street market

There was a time when local markets were stalling, but local councils are starting to recognise that they could offer…

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Posted in: Business, Public sector Filed under: markets
Prison

Prisons: the inside story

Is the £10m project to tackle drugs and violence in 10 UK prisons likely to prove worthwhile or is it scratching the…

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Posted in: Public sector Filed under: Prisons, Rory Stewart

Will Personalized Medicine Help or Harm Us?

Sian Abrahams’ mother was only 46 when she died of breast cancer. A few years later, her father died of…

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Idea from Harlem transforms young lives in west London

A scheme lauded by Barack Obama is steering pupils out of hardship and into university Two years ago Phoenix academy…

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Posted in: Education Filed under: Harlem Children's Zone, Phoenix Academy, West London Zone, WLZ

Schools pulled into row over helping transgender children

As more teens come out as trans, experts clash over how schools should help Miles Everitt, 18, thinks himself lucky…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Mermaids, Schools, transgender, Transgender Trend

Why the south Wales town that forged the NHS now points to its future

Tredegar, the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan, offers a microcosm of the health and social care problems facing the nation Growing…

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Posted in: Health Filed under: Aneurin Bevan, NHS, Tredegar

Gentrification: going up in the world

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Gentrification isn’t just about hipster cafes and flat whites. Done right, it can mean real regeneration of local communities. Kim Thomas…

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Posted in: Public sector Filed under: Gentrification

Checking out: outsourcing under the spotlight

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The collapse of Carillion has put public sector outsourcing under the spotlight. Could going in house replace it or are…

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Posted in: Public sector Filed under: Carillion, insourcing, outsourcing, Vangent

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