Month: May 2015

Despite the drive towards the provision of local, specialised support, hundreds of children and young people with intellectual disabilities are still placed in out-of-area residential … Read more

Dr Peter Baker, Dr Peter Langdon and Professor Glynis Murphy from Tizard have returned from a 3 day Autism Conference in May hosted by a … Read more

A positive behavioural support framework has been launched today which can be downloaded for free.   The PBS coalition, a subgroup of the Challenging Behaviour … Read more

Dr Marian Duggan discusses the issues surrounding the court case involving Ashers, the Christian-run bakery in Northern Ireland. Dr Duggan has written extensively on homophobia including … Read more

The 2015 Student of the Year is April-Louise Pennant, who has just completed her final year on the Sociology with a Year in Hong Kong course. The … Read more

National Counter Terrorism Policing HQ have asked the Centre for Child Protection to assist in promoting their Youth Online Understanding Radicalisation (YOUR) Survey as widely … Read more

We are delighted to announce that Tony Osgood and Jill Bradshaw have  both won Kent Union Teaching Awards voted by the students themselves; the ultimate accolade … Read more

The streets of our towns and cities are taken for granted by most yet they are in many ways the measure of how civil and … Read more

PSSRU is part of a three year European Commission funded project, Third Sector Impact (TSI), looking at the impact of the third sector in Europe – … Read more

Our Year 2 Autism students attended their final workshop this week presenting their portfolio work and describing how they had been working to improve the quality … Read more