This article offers a critical reflection on the function of education, health and care plans (EHCPs) in pathways to employment for disabled young people. We consider ‘the education plan’ as an artefact of special educational needs systems. We problematise the often taken‐for‐granted assumption that such plans are always and only a ‘good’ thing in the lives of disabled young people seeking pathways to employment. At the same time, we consider the rise in demand for plans that are understood by many as a crucial mechanism for achieving support. Following the recent policy reforms in England, we describe a context in which the funding of education is shrinking and in which the promise of employment for disabled young people has yet to be delivered. We conclude by proposing some changes to policy and practice to enhance employment opportunities for disabled young people.
The United Nations' designation of 2016 as the International Year of Pulses provided an unprecedented opportunity to focus the world's attention on the 12 crops recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as pulses. Combined with consumer demands for high-protein, high-fiber, and clean-label ingredients, pulses are a viable food ingredient for multiple end-use applications. As a result, there is a need for expansion of fundamental research on the functionality of pulse ingredients and their end-use applications.
This paper explores some of the threads that connect landscape, folklore and ecology before introducing the papers in this special issue on 'Landscape and Folklore.
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