Dedication, Motivation and a Whole Lot of Heart

16 / 09 / 2016

At the Rio Paralympics Team GB is going for gold in a big way. We are currently second in the leader table and it looks like we are going to stay up there. One amazing story emerging from these games was the T13 1500m final. The top four Paralympians all had faster times than that of Olympic gold medallist Matthew...

Inappropriate Comments on Social Media

13 / 09 / 2016

There is always a hum of social media chatter these days. Top of the Twitter trends as I write this is the shocking news that the Great British Bake Off is moving to Channel 4. Well, there you go....... I am constantly amazed how many people spend so much time gossiping about such trivia. It takes all sorts. There are...

Is Breast Always Best in the Workplace?

08 / 09 / 2016

Breastfeeding is always a hot topic. Over the last few months women have been asked to leave restaurants, supermarkets and courts for feeding their babies in public. Some restaurants have asked women to cover their child up with a napkin so as not to cause offence to other diners. In July the MP for East Antrim Sammy Wilson described colleagues...

Pregnant Then Dismissed

06 / 09 / 2016

It is illegal in the UK to dismiss a woman for reasons relating to her pregnancy or being treated less favourably for that reason. Despite this, research carried out by the Commons Women and Equalities Committee found that employees on maternity leave and pregnant employees now face more discrimination than ten years ago. The study highlights that around 54,000 new...

Born (paper) Free

01 / 09 / 2016

We are in the process of going paper free. We will be hanging on to our physical library of reference books, but pretty much everything else that can be described as paper has been sorted, is being scanned and once named and saved into the relevant file on our shared drive the debris goes into the maws of the shredder....