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The Psy-Security-Curriculum ensemble: British Values curriculum policy in English schools [PDF]

, 2018
Framed as being in response to terrorist attacks and concerns about religious bias in some English schools, ‘British Values’ (BV) curriculum policy forms part of the British Government’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, 2015.
Ajegbo K., Anderson B., Annamma S. A., Baker K., Ball S. J., BBC, Bhabha H., Butler J., China Mills, Christine Winter, Derrida J., Fanon F., Fitzpatrick P., Froggett L., Gilroy P., Gove M., Hall S., Hesse B., Historical Association, HM Government, HM Government, HM Government., Hussain N., Kundnani A., Lawton D., Mackenzie J. M., Mayes E., Mills C., Nandy A., Ofsted, Osler A., Ozga J., Parehk B., Parker I., Razack S., Rizvi F., Rushdie S., Said E., Santos B. D. S., Tharoor S., Tomlinson S., Tomlinson S., Tomlinson S., Tyler I., Versi M.   +44 more
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Gateways, Funnels, and Stackers: How People Hide Property Ownership Through Offshore Structures

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do wealthy individuals use offshore financial structures like shell companies to protect personal assets? And how is such offshore wealth structuring itself variably organized? Moving beyond conceptualizations of offshore as concerning only individual tax havens, this article investigates offshore wealth structuring as a fundamentally ...
Kristin Surak, Johnathan Inkley
wiley   +1 more source

Resilient planning for sporting mega-events: designing and managing safe and secure urban places for London 2012 and beyond [PDF]

, 2011
Since the 1960s both regeneration and security have been prominent themes in Olympic planning. However, this paper argues that the prominence given to post event 'legacies' in London's bid to host the 2012 Summer Games has fomented a merger of these ...
Coaffee, J, Fussey, P
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Accountability and Hyperaccountability in Child Protection Scandals

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The number of child abuse–related deaths has decreased significantly in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, but there remains public and political concern about the actual and perceived risk of child deaths, with resultant processes enacted to supervise child protection practice.
Robin Sen, John Devaney
wiley   +1 more source

Framing the UK’s counter-terrorism policy within the context of a wicked problem [PDF]

, 2016
Terrorist attacks can be seen as the ultimate wicked problem. After 9/11, terrorists moved from so-called ‘spectacular’ events to relatively low-intensity attacks against individuals and groups. The emergence of what has become known as the ‘home-grown’
Fischbacher-Smith, Denis
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Conversational Democracy: Facilitating Children's ‘Unprompted Talk’ in Social Work Dialogues

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In child and family social work dialogues, social workers address topics that are relevant to children's well‐being and safety. In doing so, they inevitably prioritize one conversational direction over another. This means that while one topic is being addressed, other possible topics are put on hold or are simply never developed.
Kristina Edman
wiley   +1 more source

What is broken? Expected lifetime, perception of brokenness and attitude towards maintenance and repair [PDF]

, 2015
This paper addresses the discrepancy between the expected and actual lifetimes of vacuum cleaners considering perceived ‘brokenness’ as a driver for replacement. Among electrical products, vacuum cleaners have a high rate of domestic ownership in the UK.
Barr, C, Cooper, T, Fisher, T, Harmer, L, Salvia, G   +4 more
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Science, Technology, Society, and Law [PDF]

, 2017
Law and regulation increasingly interact with science, technology, and medicine in contemporary society. Law and social science (LSS) analyses can therefore benefit from rigorous, nuanced social scientific accounts of the nature of scientific knowledge ...
Bertenthal, Alyse, Cole, Simon A
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‘I Do Not Feel Great About It, but It Was the Logical Decision’—An Exploration of Why England's Agency Social Workers Have Left Permanent Child Protection Roles

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2023, England's statutory children's services recorded the highest number of agency social workers since records began. The cost of these workers, and the impact of an unsettled workforce on the children in receipt of their services, has led to a new set of national rules for agency social workers in children's social care.
Ciarán Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

The domestic and gendered context for retirement [PDF]

, 2013
Against a global backdrop of population and workforce ageing, successive UK governments have encouraged people to work longer and delay retirement. Debates focus mainly on factors affecting individuals’ decisions on when and how to retire.
Arthur S, Banks J, Blossfeld H-P, Collard S, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), DWP, Emmerson C, Ginn J, Ginn J, Humphrey A, Lisenkova K, Lissenburgh S, Loretto W, McCulloch A, Miles M, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Phillipson C, Price CA, Silverman D, Szinovacz ME, The Economist, Vickerstaff S, Vickerstaff S   +22 more
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