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Elderly and Young Holding Hands Features

Continuing healthcare for the elderly

Retired health visitor Sue Moos looks at assessing eligibility for older people’s NHS-funded care, new developments to prevent postcode lotteries and the implications for health professionals.

Vulnerability, Professional
Teddy Bear iStock Features

The tools to assess neglect

Identifying problems with the care of a child poses challenges for health visitors. Dawn Hodson and Natalie Cummings discuss how the Graded Care Profile 2 tool can aid you in your assessments and help your relationship with a family.

Vulnerability, Safeguarding
600million News

Wales: child poverty scheme fails to impact poorest

Flying start, Wales’ flagship scheme to support children in poverty, is failing to reach nearly two in three of the country’s poorest children, a report has found.

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Features

Loneliness: all by myself

Loneliness doesn’t simply hit at Christmas, or solely afflict a certain age group. In fact it’s been called an epidemic that affects all ages, all year round, reports journalist Phil Harris.

Vulnerability, Mental Health
Sanitary towel Features

Period poverty: tackling the taboo

Being unable to afford the basic necessity of sanitary protection is a reality for many women and girls in the UK. There’s also a compounding stigma around menstruation. Journalist Juliette Astrup investigates.

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Hand drawing line illustration Features

The big health divide

There are still clear gaps in life expectancy and health depending on where you live, reports journalist Anna Scott. What’s going on?

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Ivan Roberston Features

Personal resilience

Professor Ivan Robertson explains the importance of resilience for health, work and sustaining performance under pressure.

Vulnerability, Mental Health
John Bird Opinion

The big vision: interview with John Bird

Co-founder of The Big Issue empire John Bird talks about the way to lift people out of poverty, fighting social injustice and his plans to make it all happen.

Vulnerability, Professional
Cild alone News

Neglect linked to unemployment

Unemployment can cause an increase in child neglect as worse-off parents cannot provide for a child’s basic needs, says new Oxford University research.

Vulnerability
Crying child News

Wales: funding boost for ACE programme

An all-Wales programme to help police deal with vulnerable people via early intervention and root-cause prevention has received a £6.87m boost.

Vulnerability, Safeguarding
Blurred image of man on phone screen News

England and Wales: police see surge in sexting cases

The number of children in England and Wales involved in sexting offences – sending or possessing sexual images of themselves or others – has more than doubled since 2014-15, police say. They recorded more than 6200 incidents this year, up from 2700 two years ago.

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