September 2010 Blog Posts (2)

Walk on By - BBC programme on Community violence - discovered by Gerv Leyden - in Nottingham

Gervase Leyden (Nottingham) (Board member of the Marsha Forest Centre)

saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it.

** Fight or flight - would you 'have a go'? **

How would you react if you saw someone being attacked in the street?

Britain has been called a "bystander society" but new

research shows we are more likely to intervene than expected.…

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Added by Jack Pearpoint on September 13, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

can you hold a fork?

Can you hold a fork? Do you understand how to use a straw? Are you pretty sure about the amount of food that you can put into your mouth and still chew? Do you know why you need to chew? Silly questions, right... for most adults they are. For lunchtime at a day center these are all valid questions, and the assumed answer to all of them is usually no.

Lunchtime at the agency I work for usually looks something like this; three clients to one staff sitting at a table in front of meals cut… Continue

Added by Craig Drury on September 4, 2010 at 1:20am — No Comments