A project in the desert

I am a trustee of a charity called The Green House (formally the Avon Sexual Abuse Centre) which provides psychotherapeutic counselling for victims of sexual abuse both children, women and men.Our children’s service has not one penny of statutory funding  and...

Daniel Pelka

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01crmrp Start: 1.10Well here we are again. Another little boy murdered sadistically by people who are a disgrace to parenthood. It’s left me thinking that, after doing several radio interviews about it, I wonder just how much...

Warped Priorities

According to Save the Children 1.6 million children in Britain live in poverty. Young children will tonight go to bed hungry, wake up cold and tired and this will undoubtedly affect their ability to absorb education.The parents, more often than not, will be...

Sunburn and Social Work

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01c98t7This is a link to last night’s BBC radio interview on sunburn and social work (Start: 20.20 minutes into programme).I’m often asked to do interviews for radio or television and it is usually on aspects of childcare...