The ThinkUKnow campaign promoting online safety has run since 2007, but now that the National Crime Agency has taken over from SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency), from late October 2013, the address has changed. You can now find the resource for children and parents here in its linkup with the Child Exploitation and Online Prevention Centre (CEOP).
Whilst ESPN’s role in the Syracuse case is less than stellar, the follow-up piece is good enough not to let them fall off the tweet log. This is the article covering stories by some male survivors at a treatment centre near to Syracuse University, New York. ESPN has portalised much of its content on the…
Stephen Meesham repeated his 1990s abuse allegations earlier this week and in the wake of the subsequent internet gossip, the wrong senior Conservative politician was identified – again. The confusion wasn’t resolved by Channel 4 news filing a report on Thursday 8th November stating they had been shown a compiled list including a Tory politician that, like…
I’ve got news for you. Yes, navigating the world of health insurance when you, or a family member, is physically sick can be difficult. We’ve all either had, or have heard story after story, of declined coverage, lack of options, costs of prescriptions, and on and on. The list of complaints are fairly endless. Well,…
“According to a study from Ohio State University, something as subtle as phrasing can have an effect on someone’s tolerance. Using a questionnaire designed to measure attitudes toward people with mental illness, participants were given one of two versions of the survey: In one version, all references were to “the mentally ill,” and in the…
Justtell.org has been around for at least the last two years, operating out of NYC. Their site is so cleverly designed, with artwork by its teen volunteers/staff, that it definitely needs another mention so it doesn’t fall off the Facebook crawl. Their video explains the organisation and features comment by the founder. The site is…
The Guardian has published an interesting article about why it’s dropping the terms “child porn” or “child pornography” from its style guide. It’s a timely article considering that there always seems to be some kind of loaded language game going on when discussing child abuse survivors. For example we have some journalists reporting on “coming…
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