Mail on Sunday Leader Article on Jimmy Savile
BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten wrote exclusively for the Mail on Sunday regarding the Jimmy Savile case. That article is here.
As it turns out, tuning out people who might need some compassion is simply an act of isolation, and isolation is almost never good for our own mental health. By cutting out the people who don’t always offer up those positive vibes, we wind up disconnected and lonely. Which, of course, we can’t share with the people left around us, because we are all living in the nothing negative bubble, so you are now living a very isolated life, which leads to much MORE anxiety, stress, and depression.
These kinds of programs make a difference. Making sure kids understand safety issues, and how to report anything that is not safe, is an important part of fighting child abuse. If you don’t teach them, they won’t know. You’re not “ruining their innocence”, you are educating them before someone else does. You may not like…
“n recent years, awareness of mental health in the workplace has ramped up – and rightly so. An employee’s job can often be a source of mental illness or, if not the source, then an aggravator of it. So it’s great that initiatives such as RUOK Day are becoming widespread. This, however, has given rise…
The BBC’s Regional documentary strand, Inside Out for the East of England, ran a report in the past ten days about the possible future effects of the content that social network users post online. The report concentrated mainly on the effects on future careers for adults but the BBC’s Webwise site which was mentioned in the…
In Parliament on Wednesday 12th September, Conservative politician Sir Paul Beresford Introduced a 10 Minute Rule Bill proposing the change to an existing law, the Coroners and Justice Act 2009. The politician wants the current illegal status of under 16s engaging in sexual activity to extend to written accounts of child abuse. The admendment passed…
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