Task Force To Distribute Penn State USD 60m fine
A 10-member board has been appointed to decide how the cumulative USD $60million fine ($12m per year for five years) will be distributed. The Guardian has the agency story here.
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At the moment the main news story in the UK was the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. That pause gave us time to reflect on the news on Sunday 7th April that the home where six children died in a pre-planned fire in Derby, England is due to be demolished. The lantern lighting…
There’s been a lot of talk about youth mental health during the pandemic, including a number of prominent voices raising the alarm about this crisis. There have been almost as many voices suggesting that ending things like lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, and just getting “back to normal” will fix this mental health crisis.
I am not one of those voices.
Now let me be clear, I’m not saying that the pandemic hasn’t played a number on mental health for all of us, it clearly has. But, the crisis in mental health for everyone, but especially young people, existed long before COVID-19.
Tomorrow evening, ESPN’s excellent E:60 program will do a piece on Invisible Victims: According to experts, children with disabilities are three times more likely than children without them to be victims of sexual abuse. And when the disability is mental rather than physical – meaning the disability is not immediately visible – the cases are…