Strengthening Communities, Rejecting Division

(Pictured Above) Will Linden, Deputy Head of Scottish Violence Reduction Unit Last week, Scotland witnessed a deeply concerning escalation of targeted hostility and violence against minority ethnic communities. Perpetrated under the cynical guise of “protecting white lives,” this flashpoint was fuelled by the brutal attack in Belfast on Steven Ogilvie and the tragic death of […]

Understanding Contextual Safeguarding

(Pictured Above) Nicole Savage, Senior Officer in North Lanarkshire Council and Lead in Contextual Safeguarding Implementation “I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain. The intense, often unmitigated pain…”Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language […]

From polluted water to polluted feeds: a public health approach to digital harms

(Pictured Above) Dr Amrit Kaur Purba, Assistant Professor and Wellcome Fellow, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine In the 19th century, our politicians woke up to the dangers of unclean water. London’s aptly named ‘Great Stink’ of 1858 forced MPs to revolutionise the sewer network, and then the […]