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LegalAware Review of the Year 2011 – Part 3 (Oct – Dec), disability and...
In the final three months of this year, I wrote more about psychometric testing (for example in the proposed BCAT and psychometric tests for training contract applications), human rights (for example...
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"Responsible reform": Sharp criticism of the legitimacy of welfare reforms...
Embargoed for publication 10:00 9 January 2012 A new Report on the proposed changes to Disability Living Allowance in a team led by Dr S J Campbell, Sue Marsh, Kaliya Franklin and Declan Gaffney,...
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The new websites of BPP and the Bar Standards Board are paradigms of...
In many ways, the website is likened to the ‘shop window’ of the organisation. It is the visible part of an organisation, which is vital for attracting new stakeholders. It also acts a pivotal part of...
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Ad valorem: What's the purpose of the law in a powerful state?
‘Ad valorem’ is a new feature on ‘Legal Aware’, to act as a fulcrum of challenging intellectual debate, resulting from recent legal and social blogposts. It is loosely based on the ‘LegalAware’ blog...
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Why David Cameron's "lurch to the right" must not be above the law
Like John Hirst, the former prisoner who studied law and put the UK on-the-spot about the proportionality of imposing a total ban on prisoners using the vote, David Cameron is not above the law. In...
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It’s time we talked about ‘dementia friendly communities’
This could be the video from any corporate. The point is that the video contains very familiar concepts and memes which can be marketed very easily. I have reviewed the development of the policy of...
View ArticleIf no two people are the same, how can we build ‘dementia friendly communities’?
Even identical twins act differently. This is because they are shaped by the environment in unique ways, even if they have exactly genetic sequence as the blueprint which designed them. It therefore...
View ArticleThe World Dementia Council will be much stronger from democratic...
There is no doubt the ‘World Dementia Council’ (WDC) is a very good thing. It contains some very strong people in global dementia policy, and will be a real ‘force for change’, I feel. But recently the...
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A lot more unites us in English dementia policy than divides us, potentially
It’s sometimes hard to see the big picture in the policy of England regarding dementia. I don’t mean this in terms of the three key policy strands of the strategy, which is currently the Prime...
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Can #thoughtdiversity promote employment for persons living well with young...
“Thought diversity“, I feel, is fundamentally in tune with what I feel about the ethos of living well with dementia: recognising what people can do, rather than what they can’t do. This is...
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