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NT Government The Territory Labor Government is seeking public input into an innovative strategy that will set a new course for student engagement and improved educational outcomes. The Education Engagement Strategy, to be released later this year, will be a framework for meaningful, accessible education stemming from purposeful and engaging learning processes. Acknowledging the key role communities have in leading schools, the strategy will outline actions that can be led by students, families...

Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 8) 150 Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America will publish a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs . In this blog, he discusses psychiatry’s resistance to admitting to withdrawal effects, as well as the way doctors and scientists are treated when they critique the establishment. Each Monday, a new section of the book will...

Edward Mallen - Credit: Archant Meldreth father Steve Mallen has said he is well on his way to making good on a public promise he made at the funeral of his 18-year-son Edward, who died from suicide six years ago last week. Edward Mallen, a former head boy at Melbourn Village College, took his own life following the sudden and inexplicable onset of clinical depression in 2015. Steve has spent much of the past six years investigating the mental health sector and seeking reform in his sons memo...

It is misleading and not factually correct to say these were mistakes and missed readings, she suggested. The letter has been criticised by Vicky Phelan, who developed cervical cancer after screening and first revealed failings in the CervicalCheck programme. Ms Phelan posted on Twitter: “2.5 years after my case broke open the CervicalCheck debacle and an independent review by Dr Gabriel Scally found that CervicalCheck was doomed to fail identifying serious gaps in governance structures and m...