Female Genital Mutilation

Yesterday was an international day of zero tolerance towards Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

I was listening to Woman's Hour and they had an interesting piece on FGM which you can find here. If you want to go straight to it then fast forward 14 minutes in.

The Guardian has also put together a very good page of resources, interviews and information on FGM which is well worth a look. You can find it here.

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Troubled families online discussion

Hello.
I missed this when it was live, but it's still worth a look if you're interested in the government's 'Troubled Families' scheme. The Guardian does these 'online discussions' (a panel of experts answers questions from the general public) quite often and they're usually good value.

You can reference it of course as a webpage if there's anything in there that is worth including in assignments.

Now I've explained what it is, you can read full online discussion here.

Great piece on the rioting by Zoe Williams in the Guardian today.

I would encourage you to read this piece from Zoe Williams on the current riots.

I don't expect everyone to agree with the sentiments expressed, it would odd if we did, but her conclusions are pretty close to my own. We're getting a lot of polemical opinions thrown at us by a 24 media at present (anyone who saw Newsnight last night will know what I mean) so quietly expressed voices of reason are in danger of being drowned out by calls for water cannons and worse. No matter what your opinion is, if you'd like to express it then I'd like to read it. After all, many of you already work with young people and have experiences and insights that I will never have. I'm a librarian who just wants a quiet life.

And finally, to any of you working or living in areas that have been affected I simply hope you're okay,

Alan

Society Guardian.

I know that buying a daily newspaper is fast becoming a thing of the past because most newspapers are free online.

The Guardian has a particularly good online section for social science students called 'Society Guardian'. In the paper edition it appears on a Wednesday.

Have a look here to get a taste of what it covers. It won't do the same job as academic journals, (if you tried writing an essay based entirely on newspaper articles you'd probably fail!) but it offers a good selection of opinion pieces and articles written from the perspective of the client.

You can also set up an RSS feed to the website, enabling the info to come to you. Have a look here for advice on how to set this up.