Rescuing history from the scholars

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Only a few long-stay hospitals for the learning disabled are still open in the UK. The Open University has created an oral archive of interviews with former residents of these hospitals, in an effort to record a chapter of social history in the UK that allowed these hospitals to exist. By combining memories with documentary sources, former residents and their relatives have found important information, and the country has gained a rich record that enhances its academic historical view.

Research, Services, History, Open University, Oral history, Psychiatric hospitals

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Squeaky wheels get the grease

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Social work research units at universities in the United Kingdom need to make their voices heard if they are to continue to receive adequate financing in an environment when funding is getting increasingly tight. It is contended that groups, such as the Economic and Social Research Council, which award funding do not always recognise the work done by social work units and therefore do not award them the funding they deserve.

Financial management, Research and Testing Services, Scientific Research and Development Services, Research & Development-Universities, Finance, Social work, Company financing, University research, Social case work

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Where to find identity if you live in shadows?

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An analysis of research into private fostering in the United Kingdom, the laws regulating fostering and the impact that being fostered can have on a child. It is to be hoped that the new Children Bill, which is currently before Parliament, can help sort out the private fostering sector and weed out bad carers.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Other Residential Care Facilities, Legal/Government Regulation, Residential care, Foster Homes, Analysis, Laws, regulations and rules, Foster home care, Foster children, Foster parents

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