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Lessons from Scotland's independent care review
A breakthrough independent review has taken place over 3 years, speaking to 5,500 social workers, looked-after adults and children, reports KATE RAMSDEN
CJ ATKINS reports on the stand that saw Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif hauled out of Israel’s parliament during Donald Trump’s vainglorious address
ROGER McKENZIE argues that Western powers can see the beginning of the end in the rise of the global South — and racist reactions are kicking in
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Taking a brief look at who the US president surrounds himself with reveals a team dedicated to the complete erasure of Palestine, not justice and civil rights for its people, writes TERRY HANSEN
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN
IT IS hard to lift your attention from the coronavirus crisis at the minute, but there are some things that must not get lost in our understandable preoccupation with Covid-19.
One such thing here in Scotland is the report of the independent care review, a root-and-branch review of Scotland’s care system. It is unique in the history of government reviews in that it has been driven by those with experience of care.
Over the past three years, the review team has listened to over 5,500 experiences. More than half the voices were of children and young people with experience of the care system, adults who had lived in care and different types of families. The remaining voices came from the paid and unpaid workforce.
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