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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with barrister Lucy Reed, on opening the secretive family courts to scrutiny

The family courts, which make orders for children to be taken into care, have long been a hidden world, but that's now changing. Neil talks to barrister and transparency campaigner Lucy about why this matters, and how the system needs to change.

Alex Turner George Colwey Neil Maggs
Alex Turner, George Colwey and Neil Maggs

City

‘I have never experienced such intense stress’: Social workers on the strain of cuts

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Ideas and Action

Among the trauma and the bullshit: Thoughts of a black social worker

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Features

Services at tipping point: adult social care cuts in Bristol

Further cuts and restructures to adult social care in Bristol are on the table. Here's what's happened so far, what changes are afoot and what impact people are seeing.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner