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A Boss Had The Best Response When His Employee Took A Mental Health Day Off

A Boss Had The Best Response When His Employee Took A Mental Health Day Off - After all, despite the progress we've made in reducing mental health stigma, we still have a long way to go before mental health is taken as seriously ...

Teaching children emotional intelligence could help their mental health longterm

Teaching children emotional intelligence could help their mental health longterm - Teaching children emotional intelligence could help their mental health ... covering nearly 100,000 students from across the US, Europe and the UK .

EU's Brexit negotiator sets out tough conditions for UK

EU's Brexit negotiator sets out tough conditions for UK - Grief may exist in his absence six months after he passed, but his legacy lives on in increased awareness about concussions and mental health  ...

Trump's trip to the UK not happening in 2017

Trump's trip to the UK not happening in 2017 - Researchers are discovering that ongoing stress during early childhood _ from grinding poverty , neglect, parental substance abuse and other ...

If we want to improve social mobility, we have to address child poverty

If we want to improve social mobility, we have to address child poverty - highlighted that child poverty in the UK has increased since 2011 and that 'given the billions invested in services, it is disappointing that there has ...

One in four youngsters face risk of deadly toxic stress caused by trauma of bullying, divorce or

One in four youngsters face risk of deadly toxic stress caused by trauma of bullying, divorce or -    While it's estimated that nearly half of all children live in families close, or below, the poverty level in the US. Similar rates can be seen in the UK .

Scotland 'first country in world' to give free sanitary products to women on low incomes

Scotland 'first country in world' to give free sanitary products to women on low incomes - That is why, as part of our wider aims to eradicate poverty from our country, we are exploring how to make products freely available to low-income ...

UK unemployment rate hits lowest since 1975, but real wages keep falling - business live

UK unemployment rate hits lowest since 1975, but real wages keep falling - business live -  UK employment up, and at a record high, in today's ONS data. ... Some 3.8 million workers are trapped in poverty , many with few qualifications and ...

Vanessa Redgrave urges people to fight against labels

Vanessa Redgrave urges people to fight against labels - The film, which will air later this month as part of the broadcaster's Gay ... half a century since homosexuality was partially decriminalised in the UK .

Africans getting fed up with gay rights noise – Ghana's speaker of parliament

Africans getting fed up with gay rights noise – Ghana's speaker of parliament - 2012, the then- U.K. Prime Minister, David Cameron, warned African countries that they risked aid cuts if they failed to respect gay rights. Ghana's ...

Gay ex-Army officer wins Supreme Court fight for husband's pensions rights

Gay ex-Army officer wins Supreme Court fight for husband's pensions rights - But it is to our Government's great shame that it has taken so many years, huge amounts of taxpayers' money and the UK's highest court to drag them ...

Couple married in one of UK's first gay Muslim weddings suffer online abuse

Couple married in one of UK's first gay Muslim weddings suffer online abuse - Footage from the ceremony showed the couple dressed in traditional Bangladeshi attire as they said their vows at the town's registry office.

Gay man wins UK court battle for equal pension rights

Gay man wins UK court battle for equal pension rights - A gay British retiree has won a legal battle to secure the same occupational pension rights for his husband that a wife would enjoy. Five judges at the ...

American rapper, Tyler, The Creator, just seemingly came out

American rapper, Tyler, The Creator, just seemingly came out - It appears that Tyler, The Creator, real name Tyler Gregory Okonma has seemingly come out as gay or bisexual in a track on his latest album.

The Rebel in London for Gay Pride

The Rebel in London for Gay Pride - Marking 50 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality in the UK , The Rebel's Lucy Brown and I headed to London to find out if the city had ...

Drag queens read to primary-aged kids in new initiative

Drag queens read to primary-aged kids in new initiative -  LGBT campaigners have backed a new initiative which involves drag ... in the UK , with programmes being developed in Birmingham and Bristol.

Sir Ian McKellen set to appear at Wigan Pride 2017

Sir Ian McKellen set to appear at Wigan Pride 2017 - The Hollywood star and campaigner for LGBT rights will be part of the ... the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK

A gay man has opened up about his coming out video that went viral

A gay man has opened up about his coming out video that went viral - A video from a hidden camera that captured the moment a teenager came out to his mother recently went viral online and now the man has opened up ...

Can you be my gay best friend?' and other questions LGBT+ people are done with being asked

Can you be my gay best friend?' and other questions LGBT+ people are done with being asked - This Pride month, we spoke to members of the LGBTTQQIAAP ( lesbian , gay , bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ...

Who's Nick's Dad? LGBTI Confront Homophobics over Human Rights

Who's Nick's Dad? LGBTI Confront Homophobics over Human Rights -  LGBTI members arrived in the square Monday morning on the blue “diversity bus.” The bus painted with the message,“The future of children is always ...

Scared to get sick, how healthcare in India lets down LGBTI people

Scared to get sick, how healthcare in India lets down LGBTI people - Doctors sometimes lecture LGBTI people that their lives are a sin and turn away trans patients because they don't know which ward to admit them to.

The best gay-friendly beach city you've never heard of

The best gay-friendly beach city you've never heard of - The LGBTI area of the St Petersburg Municipal Beach on Treasure Island is an essential. The long, pristine stretch of white sand is ...

Will Young climbs into bed with director Chris Sweeney to launch LGBTI podcast

Will Young climbs into bed with director Chris Sweeney to launch LGBTI podcast - Will Young is teaming up with openly gay filmmaker Chris Sweeney for an LGBTI podcast, it's been revealed. The weekly 'in conversation' series will ...