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Lack of Specialist Services is Failing Children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
As the Government launches a review into the care system, Byline Times reports that children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder are being failed.
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At Greater Risk of Dying But Not A Vaccine Priority: COVID’s Mental Health Impact on the Learning Disabled
Saba Salman reports on the absence of official recognition by the Government that people with learning disabilities have been disproportionately affected by the Coronavirus pandemic in a number of ways
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The COVID-19 Crisis Must Spur a Revolution in Public Mental Health Services
The Coronavirus pandemic has exposed an urgent need to reform long-neglected areas of healthcare, argues Byline Times’ chief medical officer John Ashton
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Everybody is Somebody: My Daughter’s Pandemic Anxiety
Reverend Joe Haward explores the impact of the Coronavirus on empathetic children and what we can do to reassure them that they are not helpless while the Government fails to reassure us at every turn
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2020 SPOTLIGHT: The Government’s ‘World-Beating’ COVID-19 Failures and Lies
Stephen Colegrave tracks how Boris Johnson’s administration created the conditions for the worst public health disaster in living memory
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Male Suicide: Exploring a Lost Identity
Reverend Joe Haward explores the shocking rate of male suicide in the UK and its relationship to masculinity
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Hidden Trauma: Accident and Emergency Nurse Reveals Abuse of Disabled by Family Carers
Stephen Colegrave speaks to an Accident and Emergency nurse who has witnessed the unreported abuse of vulnerable people
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Extreme Anti-Abortion Group’s New ‘Missional Network of Pregnancy Support’ Revealed
Sian Norris reports on plans for the provision of new services by a group which links abortion with Satanic Ritual Abuse, believes delaying abortion decisions is justified, and links it to suicide
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A Rake’s Progress: How Men Have to Face Up to their Eating Disorders
As Freddie Flintoff speaks publicly about having bulimia, Nathan O’Hagan explains how lockdown has made him finally confront his own condition
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Vulnerable People in Corporate Care: ‘The Patient Loses Out’
Alain Catzeflis investigates the impact of an explosion of US corporate money on Britain’s independent mental health sector
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COVID-19 Could Mark the Beginning of the End for Obsessive Consumerism
Jon Bailes considers how free we really are under the free market system and whether the Coronavirus crisis will have revealed this to the public with far-reaching consequences
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As Prevent Fails Again, It’s Time to Defund Counter-Terrorism and Rethink Safe Societies
As failings continue, we must acknowledge that the counter-terrorism industry cannot keep people safe, argues Muhammad Rabbani
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Millions Concerned about Lockdown Problem Drinking
As drink sales rocket during the COVID-19 lockdown, Stephen Delahunty reports on how the reality of Britain’s dependency on alcohol is coming home.
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‘Dear World, What A Strange Place You Have Become’
18-year-old student Daisy Davidson explains the thinking behind a website she set up to chronicle people’s feelings of the Coronavirus crisis around the world.
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It’s Not Too Late to Prevent the Mental Health Crisis of Coronavirus
Stephen Colegrave compares the failure to prepare for the mental health impact of COVID-19, especially on the young, to the Government’s neglect of care homes.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: The Forgotten Consequences of those in a ‘Double-Lockdown’
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has rightly focused on hospitals and care homes – but hidden hotspots of the virus such as prisons should not be forgotten as we tackle the outbreak.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: A New Age of Anxiety
NHS worker Nathan O’Hagan, who has experienced issues with anxiety for most of his life, explores how people who never previously thought about feelings of unspecified dread are now having to contend with them because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Governments and Banks Want to Keep Us in Debt
Iwan Doherty investigates why our economy hates saving and loves credit and the consequences of the private debt bubble that enslaves us.
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The Poverty Business Impoverishes Us All
Iwan Doherty investigates how businesses profit from poverty and billions are invested to increase indebtedness.
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We Must Kill Marketing Before it Kills Us
Stephen Colegrave, former marketing director of Saatchi and Saatchi, explains why the Mad Men world of marketing must die.
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‘Men Need Spaces to Talk About Masculinity. Cutting Hair Can Save Lives’
As part of her Why Masculinity Matters series, Hardeep Matharu speaks to Tom Chapman, founder of the Lions Barber Collective, about the need for spaces for men to speak to each other about the challenges of navigating masculinity.
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DYING QUIETLY: The Cost of Staying Alive
In their series exploring the deaths that go unnoticed, Natalie Bloomer and Samir Jeraj examine the impact of austerity and the shrinking of state social safety nets.
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Living with Attention Deficit Disorder
Mike Stuchbery on his recent ADD diagnosis and why this has provided the breakthrough he needed.
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‘Jirga’ Provokes New Thinking on War and PTSD
CJ Werleman speaks to the Australian filmmaker Benjamin Gilmour about his new film Jirga.
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A Thousand Small acts of Kindness – How to Tame the Black Dog of Depression
Mike Stuchbery speaks out about his mental health struggles, and in doing so finds a cure in the kindness of others
