• The headlines say one thing – cuts, inequality a lack of social justice and the Big Society advocates say another: what sense can we make of this ? 03/09/2010
    Professor John Diamond (the University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reflects on some of the headlines from the news this week: ” Looking through the report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies released this week on the impact of the Coalition’s Budget and the increasing number of examples from the Voluntary and Community sector of [. […]
  • Looking for Absences – Social Justice and Equalities in the Big Society: what does this tell us? 03/09/2010
    Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) points to continuing absences in the Coalition’s Big Society initiative: “I am struck by the notable absences in the Coalition’s Big Society project. There are, at least, two really central ones – for me- and they are any references to Social Justice and Equalities. […]
  • Summer Holidays, Stories and The Big Society: Why We Need More Than A Bucket And Spade 03/09/2010
    Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reviews some recent stories from the national press on the Big Society: “Reading through the papers over the weekend the connections between the Big Society idea, the Coalition’s Budget and the emerging impact of the cuts became clearer. There are two articles which are w […]
  • Getting The Most Out Of The Equality Act 2010 03/09/2010
    This is THE essential conference for equality law practitioners. The key note speech will be given by Mrs Justice Laura Cox. Major changes to the law will be presented by discrimination law experts. Karon Monaghan QC will discuss what is in and what’s out – new definitions and concepts – disability discrimination, gender re-assignment, combined […]
  • The Big Society, A Sense of History and why Local Politics Matter 03/09/2010
    Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) returns to the question of a Sense of History: ” An interesting absentee in the Coalition’s claims for their Big Society is any reference to their own different histories and ways of relating to the localism debate. So, the Liberals do have a tradition and history […]

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Black Presence

The Black Presence website was formerly the Black Presence in Britain, history site about the contribution of African descended people in British history. The Black Presence in Britain website was set up in 1998 due to a lack of information about Black people in Britain to be found on the Internet. I was studying politics [...]

The scandal of ‘criminalising’ mental health patients

Community and faith groups condemn the rapid rise in prisoner suicide rates Tuesday 2 January 2008 Human rights group Black Mental Health UK have added their voice to the growing numbers of community and faith organisation who have condemned the rapid rise in the numbers of suicides of people in prison over the last 12 [...]

LGF Online

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The Voice OnLine

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