Styal prison unit ‘unsuitable’: inspector

The chief inspector of prisons has described the state of women held in a special unit at a Cheshire prison as more shocking and distressing than anything he has ever seen on inspection.
Housing & Homelessness News - Family matters

Kelly Mattison reports on the closure of an accommodation centre that has been helping homeless mothers and their young children for 30 years
‘Please – don’t take money from the poorest children’

“I know times are hard and the government has to make savings but please don’t take money away from the poorest children in society; that’s just not fair.”
Parents Talk Tactics

A school-funded programme has helped parents cope with their children’s
challenging behaviour, says Kelly Mattison, who co-facilitated the course
More Than An Act

Acts of random kindness make the world a slightly better place. Now one entrepreneur is helping people look good while they perform them.
Children need more protection from porn

The Bailey report on the sexualisation of children published last week does not go far enough to protect young people from the easy availability of pornography.
If they close this place down i will go back to prison

So scared of life on the outside was Andrew Monahan that he would drive up to police officers and tell them he had no driving license in order to be sent back behind bars.
Alesha Dixon presents BBC show on domestic violence

The singer hopes to reach out to children who have witnessed domestic violence with her documentary, Don't Hit My Mum
People bully you because your house isn't fancy

Four children share their insights on life below the poverty line in a BBC TV
programme to be broadcast next week.
‘There was nothing to prepare us for it’
Former Coronation Street actor Bruce Jones was among the celebrities who slept rough for ten nights in a BBC documentary.
Body of evidence - Male Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Body dysmorphic disorder sufferers become worry so obsessively about their appearance that some try to kill themselves. And it affects men as well as women.
Charitable tendency
Johnny Marr talks exclusively to Kelly Mattison about the release of his single in aid of homeless charity Centrepoint.
Women search for hope in a war-scarred state
Sally Lindsay and Suranne Jones visited conflict-riven Congo last month where rapes and the brutality of crimes against women are described as the worst in the world.
What it’s like to grow up with an alcoholic parent
“Doing this documentary hasn’t really helped me put closure on anything,” said Calum Best
Best tackles family legacies of booze
Calum Best meets some of the 1.3 million children who have a parent who abuses alcohol
Domestic Violence: Enemy within
The emotional scars of witnessing domestic violence can stay with children for a lifetime increasing the risk they may go on to be abusers themselves.
Forced Marriages In Community Spotlight
A community initiative is running free workshops in the North West on forced marriage and honour killings after receiving funding from the Forced Marriage Unit
On course to tackle domestic abuse
The organiser of a domestic abuse awareness course for men claims it has been
successful in changing their behaviour towards their partners.
Speaking Out acclaim for survivors of childhood abuse

Mental Health Media awards for three men brave enough to talk in powerful documentary about the sexual abuse that blighted their lives.
In the shadow of terror

New film reveals how people of Islamabad face up to suicide bomb threat
