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Jim Broadbent Loves His Flawed Character In The Sense Of An Ending
By Rich Cline in Movies / TV / Theatre on 17 April 2017
The Sense of an Ending is released Easter Monday
To play the lead role in the film adaptation of Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, Jim Broadbent says that going back to Julian Barnes' writing was the key. "Just how someone speaks reveals so much about them," Broadbent says of his character, Tony. "Hearing that voice is the most useful thing you can get."
Jim Broadbent in The Sense Of An Ending
Broadbent says that the role resonated in his own past, especially his school days. "I wasn't quite one of those smart, intellectual sixth-formers," he laughs, "but those schoolboy relationships are fairly consistent over the generations, and I certainly recognise him from my own. I also recognise the arrogance and awkwardness of youth. So the arc of his life from school until now, I knew exactly where he was coming from."
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The Sense Of An Ending Review
Julian Barnes' Booker Prize-winning novel is adapted into a remarkably intelligent, gently involving film anchored by a terrific performance from Jim Broadbent. With an unusually realistic depiction of London life, this an introspective story about finding closure, and it's nice that the filmmakers avoid ramping up the narrative to push a big emotional climax. Instead, it's in the small moments that the film rings true.
Broadbent plays Tony, a pensioner who runs a small camera shop as a hobby. His primary distraction is his single daughter Susie (Michelle Dockery), who is in the final stages of pregnancy. So Tony and his ex-wife Margaret (Harriet Walter) are providing whatever support they can. Then out of the blue he is notified of an inheritance from someone in his distant past. This sends him down memory lane, as he remembers his life as a university student (then Billy Howle), falling in love with Veronica (Freya Mavor) and feeling crushed when she fell for his best friend Adrian (Joe Alwyn) instead. So Tony tracks down Veronica (now Charlotte Rampling) in the present day to try to sort out their loose ends.
This is a complex story about how tricky it is to make sense of a messy past. The film refuses to simplify things in any way, leaving the audience to see themselves in the characters and situations as it flickers back and forth between the two timelines, dropping hints and details until the final piece falls into the puzzle. And the message is that you can't get closure until you accept even the more difficult elements of your story.
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Jim Broadbent Says The Sense Of An Ending Is About Complexity, Not Age
By Rich Cline in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10 March 2017
Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent has had an unusually varied career ranging from acclaimed dramas like Iris and Brooklyn to lighter entertainment in the Bridget Jones and Harry Potter movies.
At 67 Jim Broadbent is also one of the few actors who plays his age on-screen. In the British drama The Sense of an Ending, he plays a retired man looking back at his life, pondering his regrets through the eyes of his ex-wife and an old flame (played by Harriet Walter and Charlotte Rampling, respectively).
Broadbent says that the character was easy to identify with. "He's actually not really grown up," he says. "A lot of us older people like to think we're mature and grown-up and know what we're about. But we're still anxious and vulnerable and as arrogant and flawed as when we were at 20. We just get better at disguising it, at editing our life and behaving, supposedly, properly. I'm constantly astonished that I'm 67 years old and approaching 70. I think I'm just starting to think maybe somewhere down the line I'll get the hang of things. You never feel you've gotten there, that you've achieved any sort of wisdom."
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Jim Broadbent Reveals Details About His 'Game Of Thrones' Season 7 Character
By Ed Biggs in Movies / TV / Theatre on 08 March 2017
Speaking to Screencrush, the 67 year old stage and film mainstay spoke a little about his character from 'Game of Thrones'.
Veteran British actor Jim Broadbent has teased a few details about the "significant" character he will portray in the upcoming seventh season of 'Game of Thrones' – and it turns out that a great deal of the fan speculation was correct!
Despite the HBO hit show's producers wishing to keep almost everything about season seven under wraps ahead of its arrival later this year, Broadbent spilled a few crucial details for 'GoT' fans in a new interview with entertainment site Screencrush.
Jim Broadbent talked about his 'Game of Thrones' character
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The Sense Of An Ending Trailer
Tony Webster is a retired man in his sixties whose past comes back to haunt him when he receives a strange letter in the post. It takes him back to his university days when he met the love of his life Veronica Ford. Though they have been estranged since then, she bequeaths him a diary in her will. Their separation was one of bitterness and heartbreak; his best friend Adrian Finn ended up stealing Veronica's heart, and Tony reacted by sending them a very angry letter in response to their partnership. Not long after, Adrian died in mysterious circumstances and with all the horror of those years brought up once again, Tony is forced to confront his guilt and innoncence in the whole saga - as well as other people's suspicions.
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Bridget Jones's Baby Review
As it's been 12 years since the last Bridget Jones movie, expectations aren't too high for this sequel. So it's a very nice surprise that this film stands on its own as a charming and often very funny romantic comedy while rounding off the trilogy in style. The cast is terrific, and the script bristles with snappy dialogue and witty characters that lead the audience down an unpredictable route to a complicated happy ending.
On her 43rd birthday, Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is finally content with her single life. Although her romantic past continues to torment her, especially when she runs into former flame Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) at a funeral. With a corporate shake-up underway at the TV news programme she produces, presenter Miranda (Sara Solemani) suggests that Bridget needs some sex to liven up her life, whisking her off to a music festival. There she has a cute, hot encounter with the dishy Jack (Patrick Dempsey). And a week later, she rekindles her romance with Mark when she learns that his marriage has ended. So when she discovers that she's pregnant, Bridget hasn't a clue which man is the father.
This premise offers plenty of scope for both thematic meaning and awkward plot turns, and the screenplay merrily dives right into all of it, mixing some silly slapstick with darker emotions as director Sharon Maguire maintains a breezy-comical tone. This kind of balance is difficult to get right, but the film feels effortlessly engaging.
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Jim Broadbent Joins Cast Of 'Game Of Thrones' For Season 7
By Ed Biggs in Movies / TV / Theatre on 01 September 2016
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The English actor is to play a "significant" role in season 7 of 'Game of Thrones', it has been announced.
Veteran British actor Jim Broadbent has joined the cast of 'Game of Thrones' for its seventh series, in what is described as a "significant" role.
The 67 year old actor, renowned for dozens of award-winning roles in movies, on television and the stage, is to play a major part in the seventh and penultimate series of HBO's ever-popular fantasy drama when it returns in the summer of 2017, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Jim Broadbent is to play a "significant" role in 'Game of Thrones' series 7
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Bridget Jones's Baby Trailer
Bridget has always known how to get herself into a muddle - catastrophic muddles at that - even though she's been separated from her last love, Mark, for five years it appears their journey together hasn't come to an end as yet.
After taking advice from one of her colleagues, Bridget decides that it's time to get back on the dating scene and after deciding that the likes of Tinder aren't for her, Bridget finds herself being set up with Jack Qwant who she sees in the news room studio.
The pair get on remarkably well and soon find themselves spending the night together. A little fun is just what Bridget needed. When she finds herself at the christening of one of her friends little girls, her and Mark are forced to be amicable towards one another but the pair fall into old habits and Bridget and he also spend the night together.
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Jim Broadbent - Photographs of a variety of stars as they took to the red carpet for the world premiere of 'Paddington' which was held at the Odeon cinema in London, United Kingdom - Sunday 23rd November 2014
Jim Broadbent - The Arqiva British Academy Television Awards 2014 (BAFTA) - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 18th May 2014
Jim Broadbent - Arqiva British Academy Television Awards held at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane - Arrivals. - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 18th May 2014
Jim Broadbent - 'The Harry Hill Movie' World Premiere at the Vue Cinema, Leicester Square, London - London, United Kingdom - Thursday 19th December 2013
Jim Broadbent - The World Premiere of 'Harry Hill The Movie' - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Thursday 19th December 2013
Jim Broadbent - Moet British Independent Film Awards held at Old Billingsgate Market - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 8th December 2013
Le Week-end Review
By Rich Cline
Like a 20-years-later sequel to Before Midnight, this sharply observant comedy-drama follows a couple through a soul-searching weekend in which they evaluate their relationship with real wit and emotion. And transparent performances make it something to savour, as it offers us a rare grown-up movie about real issues we can identify with.
As the title suggests, the weekend in question takes place in France, and it's a 30th anniversary treat for Nick and Meg (Broadbent and Duncan). They can't really afford a trip to Paris, especially after ditching their dodgy pre-booked hotel in lieu of something far nicer, but they figure out ways to make their time special. Meanwhile, they talk about their years together, and the hopes and regrets that are haunting their thoughts. There are some hard questions to ask about their future, even as they haven't lost that spark of sexuality. Then they run into Nick's old Cambridge pal Morgan (Goldblum), who invites them to a party where they meet academics and artists just like them. Which only makes them think even more.
The key issues for them include Nick's early retirement (for an ill-timed comment to a student) and Meg's desire to change her life completely. As they consider the options, their conversations drive the film forward forcefully, flowing through cycles of flirtation and laughter to bitterness and cruelty. The depth of their love is never in doubt, even as they wonder how secure their relationship actually is. Broadbent and Duncan play these scenes effortlessly, taking our breath away because it's all so honest, often both funny and scary at the same time.
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Filth Review
As another full-on Irvine Welsh adaptation Trainspotting did in 1996, this bracingly original movie puts a new filmmaker on the map. Not only is this a loud blast of both style and substance, but it refuses to water down its subject matter, taking us through a shockingly profane story in a way that's both visually inventive and emotionally resonant.
This is the story of Bruce (McAvoy), an Edinburgh detective who's determined to beat his colleagues to a promotion. He's also a relentless womaniser, sexist, racist and drug addict. And he'll do anything to get ahead, hiding the sordid details of his private life from his boss (Sessions) while undermining the other cops at any chance while pretending to be their friends. In quick succession, he gets young Ray (Bell) addicted to cocaine, flirts continually with Amanda (Poots), has a fling with the kinky wife (Dickie) of fellow officer Gus (Lewis), torments Peter (Elliott) about his sexuality, and takes Bladesey (Marsan) on a sex-tourism holiday while making obscene calls to his needy wife (Henderson). All of this happens while Bruce leads the investigation into a grisly murder.
McAvoy dives so far into this role that we barely recognise him in there. Bruce is so amoral that we are taken aback by each degrading moment. And yet McAvoy somehow manages to hold our sympathy due to the film's blackly hilarious tone and a startling undercurrent of real emotion. Even though he's a monster, we see his boyish fragility, especially in surreal sequences involving his therapist (Broadbent), which merge with his fantasies, hallucinations and nightmares.
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Colin Firth Will Put On His Wellies & Raincoat As He Lends His Voice To Paddington Bear
By Joe Wilde in Movies / TV / Theatre on 14 September 2013
Colin Firth Hugh Bonneville Julie Walters Jim Broadbent Nicole Kidman
Brit actor Colin Firth will provide the voice of Paddington Bear in a new live-action movie
Colin Firth has agreed to play Paddington Bear in a re-boot of the famed Michael Bond books about a bear from Peru with a taste for marmalade. In the original Bond books, Paddington is found by the Brown family in London's Paddington Station after getting lost on the way over from his South American homeland. It is thought that the origins from the book will be mirrored on to the screen.
Colin Firth will play the marmalade-loving bear
In a discussion with the Daily Mail, Firth revealed that the movie will all be live action, except for the computer animated Paddington. Firth also revealed that as well as providing the voice for Paddington, his facial expressions will be mapped and used by the animators to construct the Paddington we see on stage, using the same methods used to capture Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films.
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With Bana And Hall, How Did 'Closed Circuit' Fail To Please?
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 28 August 2013
Eric Bana Rebecca Hall Jim Broadbent John Crowley
'Closed Circuit' boasts a stunning cast, though fails to deliver when required.
Closed Circuit, the new crime-thriller from Is Anybody There? director John Crowley, has failed to impress the critics ahead of its highly anticipated release this week. The international suspense thriller features a glittering cast including Eric Bana, the superb Rebecca Hall and Jim Broadbent, though was criticized for its pacing and urgency.
The movie focuses on a high-profile terrorism case that unexpectantly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team. One morning, a busy London market is hit by an bombing, though only one member of the accused survives and is arrested and jailed.
Preparations begin for one of the trials of the century, though here's the hitch: the government will use classified information to prosecute the man - evidence so secret that neither he nor his lawyers can see it. When the accused's lawyer dies expectantly, a feisty young replacement (Bana) steps up to the plate and begins to untangle a web of conspiracy, which all sounds great, but the critics can take or leave it.
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Harry Hill And Julie Walters Race Scooters For 'The Harry Hill Movie' [Pictures]
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15 May 2013
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The Harry Hill Movie looks like a riot!
Forget The Fast & The Furious! This week, comedian Harry Hill and British movie legend Julie Walters took to their scooters and powered through a quiet London suburb to film scenes from Hill's new movie Harry Hill The Movie. In a pretty hilarious looking scene, the comedian drives a yellow mobility scooter in typically slapstick fashion, falling off it at one point as Walters - who plays his grandmother - cackles away.
Iconic actress Walters was almost unrecognizable in a white frizzy wig, dark sunglasses and purple jacket while Hill was dressed as, well, Harry Hill. The comedian opted for his signature suit with big collared shirt and creeper shoes. The movie follows Harry and his grandmother as they attempt to get his pet hamster from London to a vet in Blackpool before the clock winds down. It's seems a pretty silly premise, though Harry has assembled quite for the cast for the movie, including revered actor Jim Broadbent, comedian Matt Lucas and recent Olivier award winner Sheridan Smith.
Directed by Steve Bendelack and co-written by Harry, Jon Forster and James Lamont, the movie is due to hit cinemas later in the year.
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James McAvoy Needs To Clean Up His Act In Filth (Trailer)
By Hayley Avron in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12 April 2013
James McAvoy Irvine Welsh Jamie Bell Imogen Poots Jim Broadbent
Filth, the latest movie to star James McAvoy, is an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel of the same name and it has all the hallmarks of a classic Irvine Welsh movie adaptation, with its fast-paced, seedy cinematography and wry, snappy humour. The word filth takes on two meanings here. McAvoy plays the central character Bruce Robertson, who – by all accounts, is a pretty filthy kinda guy, he's into some fairly unsavoury sexual practises and when his doctor asks if he's been taking his medication, he's only able to sort-of-honestly answer 'yes' because of all the illicit substances he's been snorting. That's not the only kind of 'filth' he is though – he's also a police officer. A Detective Sergeant no less.
Robertson's not one for abiding by the law, however and even when he's on duty, he's a pretty deceitful, dishonest kind of guy and will do anything to get one over on his colleagues, so that he can get a promotion. However, the combination of mind-altering drugs and the fact that he's collapsing under a mountain of lies soon starts to take a toll on his sanity and wellbeing. Add to that the fact that he has a troubled marriage that he's desperate to save and things aren't looking great for him, all told.
This red-band trailer precedes the September release of the movie which also stars Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, Joanne Froggett and Jim Broadbent.
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Filth - Red Band Trailer
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Bruce Robertson is a vile, devious and emotionally disturbed individual who also happens to be a Detective Sergeant. Off duty, he lives a life of debauchery; snorting line after line of cocaine and indulging in sordid sexual encounters with numerous women while trying to control his unpredictable bipolar personality. On duty, he does everything within his power to trick, deceive and ruin the lives of his colleagues with whom he competes to achieve a promotion to detective inspector. He does nothing to hide his radical views on race and women as he attempts to solve a grisly murder that seems to have more to it than he initially thought. With the web of lies he weaves throughout his life, will he be able to sort out truths from the untruths in order to maintain his sanity as his deteriorating mental health threatens to cripple him? And will he ever be reunited with the wife he is so desperate to resolve things with?
Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, 'Filth' has been directed and written by Jon S. Baird ('Cass') and sees an intense star-studded cast convert to screen an compelling story of insanity, romance and deceit. This shocking 18-rated crime drama is set to hit UK cinemas in September 2013.
Jim Broadbent - South Bank Sky Arts Awards held at the Dorchester - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Tuesday 12th March 2013
Cloud Atlas Review
Mad geniuses Tom Tykwer (Perfume) and the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix) boldly take on David Mitchell's layered epic novel, which connects six generations through the power of storytelling. The film takes so many huge risks that it's breathtaking to watch even when it stumbles. And as each tale is passed on to the next generation, the swirling themes get under the skin.
The six stories are interlinked in a variety of ways, transcending time to find common themes. On a ship in 1849, a seriously ill American lawyer (Sturgess) shows kindness to a stowaway ex-slave (Gyasi). In 1936 Edinburgh, a great composer (Broadbent) hires a musician (Whishaw) to transcribe his work, then tries to steal the young man's magnificent Cloud Atlas symphony. In 1973 San Francisco, a Latina journalist (Berry) gets a tip about dodgy goings on in a local nuclear power plant. In present-day London, a publisher (Broadbent) is trapped in a nursing home by his brother (Grant) and plots a daring escape. In 2144 Neo Soul, an official (D'Arcy) interrogates a replicant (Bae) who started a rebellion alongside a notorious rebel (Sturgess). And in a distant stone-age future, an island goatherd (Hanks) teams up with an off-worlder (Berry) when they're attacked by a warlord (Grant).
While the themes in this film are eerily involving, what makes this film unmissable is the way the entire cast turns up in each of the six story strands, changing age, race and gender along the way. Even so, they're essential variations on each other. Weaving is always a nemesis, whether he's a hitman, a demon or a nasty nurse. Hanks' characters are always strong-willed and often badly misguided. Grant goes against type to play sinister baddies. And D'Arcy is the only actor who plays the same character in two segments, as Whishaw's 1930s young lover and Berry's 1970s elderly informant. Meanwhile, each segment plays with a different genre: seafaring epic, twisted drama, political mystery, action comedy, sci-fi thriller and gritty adventure.
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Jim Broadbent - UK film premiere of 'Cloud Atlas' held at the Curzon Mayfair - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Monday 18th February 2013
Jim Broadbent and Tim McInnerny - Great Expectations Gala Party London United Kingdom Thursday 7th February 2013
Jim Broadbent Wednesday 24th October 2012 "Cloud Atlas" Los Angeles Premiere held at Grauman's Chinese Theater - Arrivals
Jim Broadbent and Grauman's Chinese Theatre Wednesday 24th October 2012 Premiere of 'Cloud Atlas' at Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Cloud Atlas Is As Risky As Inception, Says Tom Hanks
By Joe Wilde in Movies / TV / Theatre on 21 October 2012
Tom Hanks Christopher Nolan Lilly Wachowski Halle Berry Jim Broadbent Jim Sturgess Doona Bae Zhou Xun Hugh Grant Hugo Weaving Susan Sarandon
With his upcoming film, Cloud Atlas ready for release later this month, one of the film's stars, Tom Hanks, has alluded to the deep plotline that runs through the book adaptation and said that the film is as "risky as Inception" was when it was release in 2010.
Hanks was plugging his new film during a chat with Canadian paper The Montreal Gazette, when he brought up the Christopher Nolan film, suggesting that it was the closest thing to compare to his latest movie outing. Cloud Atlas follows the intertwining lives of a massive cast that drifts between centuries both past and present, examining the impact of fate on good and bad behaviour.
In his discussion, he not only had praises to sing for Brit-director Nolan, but also his three "bold" directors for the upcoming project; Tom Tykwer and Lana and Andy Wachowski. And if three directors were a lot to take on board, then the number of characters the actors have to transform themselves into throughout the film will take some effort to get your heads round too, with Hanks alone taking on 6 different roles.
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Jim Broadbent Saturday 8th September 2012 2012 Toronto International Film Festival - 'Cloud Atlas' - Afterparty
Cloud Atlas Trailer
'Cloud Atlas' is the story of how the separate lives of individuals and their actions affect each other through time. It explores a variety of different themes making it difficult to be pigeon-holed into a particular genre; action, romance and drama create the twists and turns that can change a human being from being a violent killer to being a compassionate hero. This tale explores how one act of basic humanity can influence a revolution centuries into the future.
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Elliot Gould and Jim Broadbent - Elliot Gould, Guest, Jim Broadbent, Chris Fujiwara Wednesday 20th June 2012 Edinburgh Film Festival 2012 - 'Killer Joe' Premiere
Jim Broadbent and BAFTA Sunday 12th February 2012 The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) held at the Royal Opera House - Arrivals.
Jim Broadbent Wednesday 4th January 2012 'The Iron Lady' UK film premiere held at the BFI Southbank - Arrivals London, England
Arthur Christmas Review
This lively holiday romp has a steady stream of sharp verbal and visual gags that hold our interest. Even when the plot stalls in the middle, it's difficult to stop chuckling at the filmmakers' deranged sense of humour.
At the North Pole, Santa (Broadbent) is a bit complacent after 70 years on the job, letting his heir-apparent son Steve (Laurie) convert Christmas Eve into a high-tech black-ops style mission executed with military precision. To Steve, missing one child is an insignificant statistic. But Steve's younger brother Arthur (McAvoy) disagrees, and teams up with his feisty Grandsanta (Nighy) to make sure the last gift is delivered the old fashioned way.
Yes, the film is a riot of clashes between tradition and progress, the wisdom of the years and youthful vigour. Fortunately, the serious themes are subverted, hilariously playing with our expectations and never turning into a nostalgic paean to the olden days. That said, this British production does feel eerily co-opted by Hollywood, from the use of the American "Santa Claus" (no one ever calls him "Father Christmas", which might have made sense of the film's odd title) to the somewhat feeble attempts to ramp up the action and suspense. Not to mention a massive wave of sentimentality at the end.
But even this is undermined by Baynham (Borat) and director Smith's script, which maintains a dry British sense of humour and gives the strong vocal cast plenty of snappy material to play with. While most of the characters are a bit unmemorable, Nighy gets the best lines: Grandsanta as an old coot full of surprises, including some terrific rude jokes and an amusingly animated hound-style old reindeer sidekick. Staunton also has some terrific dialog as the underestimated Mrs Santa.
Visually the film is brightly colourful, amusingly designed with small sight gags and continual Christmas imagery. While the characters look a little plasticky, the settings are gorgeously rendered, and the flying sleigh sequences almost make it worth seeing in 3D. The problem is that the film feels stretched out by random antics and underdeveloped plot-threads along the way that add nothing to the overall story. So we get tired of the bumbling chaos, mainly because we know exactly where it's got to end up.
The Iron Lady Trailer
When Margaret Thatcher started out in politics she always aspired to do something great, though just how far she'd take her career was beyond imagination. Having first made her mark in local politics in 1959, Margaret was named MP for the first time.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 Trailer
Harry Potter and his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, continue their search for Voldemort's Horcruxes - dark magical objects that help the user gain immortality. Having found and destroyed one Horcrux - a locket belonging to Hogwarts founder Salazar Slytherin - the three friends travel from Ron's older brother Bill Weasley's house by the sea to the wizarding bank, Gringotts and then to Hogwarts to look for the final remaining Horcruxes.
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Perrier's Bounty Review
Lively and rude, this comical crime thriller keeps us engaged with its likeable characters even when the plot begins to feel pointless. In the end, there's not much to the film, but it's enjoyable while it lasts.
Michael (Murphy) is a slacker who has four hours to pay back his loan shark Perrier (Gleeson) before a bounty is put out on him. On this fateful day, he teams up with his dying father Jim (Broadbent) and his neighbour Brenda (Whittaker), who accidentally gets involved in his mess. As they run around Dublin trying to stay one step ahead of the goons, as well as a couple of zealous traffic wardens, this trio is forced to examine their lives and relationships, often in the face of imminent injury.
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Hot Fuzz Review
By Rachel Gordon
For those who appreciated some gore alongside laughter in a movie, and were sick of seeing the slashers of the 1980s being constantly regurgitated for box office dollars, 2004's Shaun of the Dead was a refreshing cinematic experience. It wasn't perfect -- logic would randomly suspend itself and re-start again at the whim of plot, but the characters were fun to watch and listen to so it was difficult to hold these minor foibles against the film.
The filmmakers have returned, and corrected many of their mistakes. Hot Fuzz is not only hilariously funny, but every intelligent detail makes sense this time around, and the action is that much more engaging for what takes place because of it.
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Brazil Review
By Keith Breese
Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a civil servant Dilbert at the Ministry of Information. He's a low level office grunt typing his way through a lifetime of meaningless papers in a retro-future totalitarian state. His one escape from his dreary life is his dreams. Bursting with vivid colors, Sam's visions see him with armored wings rising into the bright sky above the cold city. There, in the firmament, Sam battles with Darkness to free a blonde beauty (Kim Greist) imprisoned in a floating cage.
Unfortunately, there are no happy endings for dreamers in this alternate world. Sam always awakens to his mind-numbing existence, only plugging away in a system that rewards only blandness, appeasing his socialite mother (addicted to face lifts) whose only wish is to see her meek son move his way up a corporate ladder to nowhere.
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Robots Review
By Robert Strohmeyer
The 1995 release of Pixar's Toy Story forever altered the world of animated cinema. In an instant, decades of Disney-dominated traditional cartoons vanished in a pixilated puff of fairy dust and a new era of almost entirely computer-generated animation began. The ensuing wave of digital films has met with such astonishing box-office success that even such forgettable romps as Chris Wedge's Ice Age have managed to top the earnings charts in their opening weeks.
But things are changing in the animation scene. The freshness of CG has worn away, and audiences are no longer wowed by flashy technology alone. Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles has raised the bar on both animation excellence and story-telling savvy to a level that will be hard to top in coming years. If such early hits as Toy Story or Antz premiered today, it's unlikely they would wow the crowds nearly as much as they did on their initial releases. It's a tough time to be an animated film.
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Little Voice Review
By Christopher Null
Surprisingly powerful despite its cute premise, Horrocks shines as a timid young woman (known as Little Voice) who has the uncanny ability to unerringly reproduce the voice of dozens of great female vocalists (eg. Garland, Bassey, even Marilyn Monroe). Smarmy promoter Caine puts her onstage, where her neurosis only worsens, but not before a few sparkling hours before the crowds.
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Moulin Rouge Review
When a red curtain opens and an orchestra conductor emerges to "direct" the unmistakable 20th Century Fox theme music, we know we're in for something different. Really different. Good different.
Filled with virtuoso special effects and spectacular song-and-dance sequences, Baz Luhrmann's long-awaited Moulin Rouge makes every minute of our collectively held breath worthwhile. In fact, during its opening hour, this critic found it hard to look away even for a second to jot down a note, for fear of missing even a nuanced sparkle in the eye of some French whore.
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Iris Review
By Frank Ochieng
In the refined and sobering drama Iris, we witness a loving but unconventional relationship between a strangely elegant couple -- English critic John Bayley and his Alzheimer's-stricken, novelist wife Iris Murdoch. Writer-director Richard Eyre, who wrote the script with Charles Wood based on Bayley's memoirs Iris: A Memoir and Elegy for Iris, delivers an amazingly touching portrait of resilient and everlasting passion between two eccentric creative forces who have contributed to the literary world immensely. Iris is an enchanting and finely-acted personal drama that manages to absorb the pleasures and pain of an undying spirit of togetherness. Expressionistic and resoundingly involving, Eyre's thought-provoking film is perceptively engaging.
Eyre does a terrific job in showing us the deterioration of a brilliant-minded woman in Iris Murdoch. It is always frustrating to witness anybody's decline in health, but it must be particularly awful for a talented author with an impeccable series of written work to her name. The film shows us the two phases of Iris's life -- as a free-spirited young woman in 1950's Oxford, England and as an aged, sickly soul trying to survive her last days in the 1990s while her husband tends to her needs. Titanic heroine Kate Winslet plays the youngish and energetic Iris while Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench portrays her ailing years.
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Around The World In 80 Days (2004) Review
By David Levine
The 50-year-old Jackie Chan has lost a step or two. This remake of the award winning 1956 classic Around the World in 80 Days is clearly just a vehicle to further his career; unfortunately it mainly showcases his age. His fight scenes are laughably choreographed and his acting comes across as forced.
Chan's problems are indicative of many others faced by this overblown $110 million mess. Even as production was finishing, a distributor had not been found. Not surprisingly, Disney eventually picked up the film. Yet, what is surprising is Disney's decision not to distribute a challenging film like Fahrenheit 9/11, but instead to release this one, a flavorless and disgraceful remake.
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Around The World In 80 Days Review
By Rob Blackwelder
Jules Verne might have a hard time recognizing his source material in the Jackie Chan action-comedy adaptation of "Around the World in 80 Days," but for non-purists, it's easy to forgive the many liberties taken in this funny, fleet-footed summer-matinee romp.
Although the ostensible main character is still screwball Victorian inventor Phileas Fogg (lanky Steve Coogan) -- who wagers against the stuffed shirts of the English scientific establishment that he can circumnavigate the globe in the titular time period -- this version of the story more literally revolves around Passepartout (Chan), Fogg's valet who has his own reasons for traipsing across continents.
Passepartout has stolen a jade Buddha from a Bank of London vault in order to return it to its rightful place: his native village in China. Fogg is his ticket to safe passage -- or so he thinks.
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NJ man lost a daughter to domestic abuse, now educating others to save lives
Dino Flammia
Dino Flammia Published: December 21, 2021
Michele Sabia was 44 years old when she was killed by her husband on their front lawn in Carlstadt in 2016. (Photos provided by Pete Miragliotta)
Pete Miragliotta knows he missed some warnings signs before his daughter's life was cut short.
But he also knows that most people would miss the same signs.
That's why he's devoting much of his time today to educating others on the prevalence of domestic abuse, what to watch for in your own relationship or in others, and how to reach out for help. The guidance is arguably even more important in light of the pandemic, which had many people suffering in silence at the start and has since resulted in an uptick in activity for shelters and other resources across New Jersey.
On July 6, 2016, Pete's daughter Michele was fatally shot by her husband of 22 years on the front lawn of their Carlstadt home. Michele's husband took his own life soon after, and Pete and his wife instantly became the immediate guardians of Michele's three kids.
"There had never been any physical violence in their relationship ... but there were other things I learned later that are telltale signs," Pete told New Jersey 101.5.
The Rutherford resident said that people wrongly look only for physical signs of violence — a black eye, for example. But domestic abuse manifests in other ways that may be front and center in public.
"Putting the other person down in front of others — there's a difference between light teasing and being ultimately critical of someone," Pete said. "It could be controlling behavior — if the spouse has to get permission from the other person to spend money or go somewhere."
These aren't automatic signs of an abusive relationship, but Pete noted that domestic violence hotlines aren't only meant for victims — people who are concerned about someone else's situation can pick up the phone for advice and potential resources.
Michele was less than a month away from her 45th birthday. According to Pete, Michele yelled to her kids — aged 9, 11 and 14 at the time — to get out of the house when her husband entered with a gun. And they listened.
"There was some premeditation, in my mind, because he retrieved his shotgun ... by breaking into his mother and father's house," Pete said.
Michele was shot once inside the house, Pete said, and the fatal shot occurred outside. By the time police entered the home after surrounding it, Michele's husband had killed himself.
Pete noted that his son-in-law had been dealing with depression for much of his life. He was committed for mental health issues a couple of times, and couldn't hold down a job.
"He expressed to me on more than one occasion his fear of her ever leaving him," Pete said.
Pete said he's learned "an awful lot" about domestic abuse since that tragic July evening. Presently, he is the board president at Center for Hope and Safety in Bergen County, which helps adults and children rebuild their lives beyond domestic violence.
The nonprofit has answered more than 6,000 calls during the coronavirus pandemic. Research shows that disasters such as the COVID emergency has the potential to not only increase the rate of abuse, but the severity of abuse as well.
"We're getting almost twice as many phone calls as we ever used to get, we have double the capacity in our shelter program, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down at all," he said.
Pete noted that in Bergen County, over 90% of all homicides are related to domestic abuse.
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5-C NutriScore to be France's official nutrition label
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The five-colour NutriScore is the most effective nutrition label in promoting healthier food choices and will be adopted as the official (but voluntary) label in France, the health minister has said.
Four logos had been rolled out in 60 supermarkets across France for 10 weeks in a bid to determine which one was most effective in promoting healthy eating.
Health minister Marisol Touraine said in a statement: "The first question was whether or not simplified nutrition labelling systems were likely to lead to changes in consumers' purchasing behaviour. The answer is clearly yes. Three of the tested systems (Nutri-Colours, Nutri-score and SENS) were unambiguously positive in terms of the criterion chosen by the scientific committee.
"The combination of multiple approaches systematically explored (by categories of products, buyers, etc.) reveals a clear overall superiority for Nutri-Score [...]. This advantage of Nutri-score is even more marked when we observe specifically the behaviour of consumers who buy the cheapest products. [...] Nutri-Score therefore appears to be the most effective system for the whole study."
"We are taking a major step forward: for the first time, the value of a nutritional logo and the effectiveness of the NutriScore logo have been demonstrated," said Touraine.
Director of nutrition research at the University of Paris, Professor Serge Hercberg, who developed the 5-C NutriScore nutrition logo said: "The recognition of the superiority of the NutriScore logo in terms of the impact on consumers' purchasing behaviour, and the adoption of this logo by the Minister of Health, are a great victory for public health and a great victory for consumer information. [It will] enable them to easily compare the nutritional quality of foods at the time of their purchase," he said in a statement in French to FoodNavigator.
"Manufacturers who have strongly demanded scientific demonstrations of the impact of this logo, which are available today on the basis of several studies, must now accept the rules of the game that they themselves demanded."
FDE: 'Another potential layer of complexity'
ANIA, the association which represents the interests of the French food industry, said it noted Touraine's announcement and maintained its commitment to the
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consultation but was waiting for the experiment's results to be officially presented "out of respect for the stakeholders".
It had developed its own logo which was trialled alongside the NutriScore, a UK-style traffic light logo and one developed by the retail and distribution sector.
ANIA also drew attention to a recent opinion issued by the French food safety agency ANSES which concluded that nutrition logos did not seem adapted to tackling public health issues such as obesity.
Pan-European industry group FoodDrinkEurope (FDE) said
"We regret that today's announcement of a French national scheme adds yet another potential layer of complexity to what should be a pan-European approach to front of pack labelling. Any proliferation of national schemes be avoided, as this may hamper the free movement of goods in the EU single market; instead, discussion on a co-ordinated approach to front of pack  nutrition labelling should take place at EU level, in close consultation and agreement with all stakeholders."
FDE called on the European Commission to assess whether the French recommendation complies with EU rules, particularly regulation on food information to consumers.
Food industry watchdog FoodWatch had thrown its weight behind the UK's traffic light label. It welcomed policymakers' initiative of bringing about greater transparency for consumers but added: "In order to be truly effective, such a device must be made compulsory for all manufacturers, and the logo must be affixed to the front of the packaging. This means putting the issue on the European agenda, because a single state cannot impose mandatory nutrition labelling," it said.
Snowball effect
Speaking to Le Parisien this week, Touraine also lamented the fact that EU rules on the single market mean France cannot make the logo mandatory.
"I cannot impose [this on industry], European rules do not allow it. I regret it but it is so. I am counting on the pressure of consumers, who want to be informed, to ensure industry will take this route. Some will play the game and it will have a snowball effect. We cannot talk about public health without being transparent. Today, everyone is talking about preventative [measures]; this is the future of health."
Touraine's next step will be to pass a decree in April allowing manufacturers to use the logo.
The logo has not received the unanimous backing of French lawmakers; agriculture minister Stephane Le Foll said it was "stigmatising" to certain foods.
According to French state figures, 15% of French people, or nearly 7 million adults, are obese.
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Cathy & Marcy Celebrate Diverse Families with 'Dancin' in the Kitchen'
By Hannah Hodson
Grammy Award winning children's musicians Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer release their 44th album today, titled Dancin' In The Kitchen: Songs For All Families. The recently married couple, who refer to their relationship as the "30-year engagement," hope their album follows in the footsteps of Marlo Thomas, famous for creating the universally famous 1972 album celebrating diversity, Free To Be… You and Me. Surely you've heard it, maybe even suffered through assembly-time renditions in grade school. My middle school even printed Free To Be themed day planners. Thing is, though revolutionary for its time, Free To Be is a little dated. Fink and Marxer hope they can bring the spirit to contemporary issues.
image courtesy of Cathy & Marcy
Fink and Marxer want to expand our definition of diversity. They have songs about adoption ("Happy Adoption Day") and LGBT families (Dancin' In The Kitchen With Mama and Mommy/Dancin' In The Kitchen With Daddy and Papa). Primarily, the duo are concerned with complicating the notion of the nuclear family, and instilling children with the notion that every family looks different. "Marlo Thomas defined a family as a feeling of belonging," Fink tells me:
I totally love that because that includes every family. It includes every family with an adopted kid, with a foster kid, it includes blended families, it includes multiracial families, it includes single parent families… Now, thanks to the work of so many great organizations, we live in a world where when you say the word 'family,' you aren't thinking of the Cleaver family anymore… you're not thinking of a nuclear family with a white mom and white dad and 2.3 children… every family is unique.
In the song "Soccer Shoes," a child can't find their soccer shoes because he lives with separated or divorced parents. "Twins" is a song about identical twins, written and performed by actual identical twins. The album boasts multiple songs with titles like "I Belong to A Family" and "Family Song," all celebrating the different ways to define family.
Fink and Marxer use this album to open up discussions about themes that many parents might be hesitant to tackle. The album contains a story written and told by storyteller Andy Offutt Irwin, "Who's In Charge of Naming the Colors?" during which we are prompted to discuss the oversimplified ways we identify skin color. A little boy sees some paint swatches at the hardware store, and uses them to name the colors of his multiracial family. Creating space for difficult conversations between parents and children has been both a goal and a side effect of their music making through the years. In 1992, the duo invited a children's chorus to perform on their song "Everything Possible," written by Fred Durst. However, upon reading some of the lyrics, many parents decided to pull their children out of the project. The offending lyrics?
There are girls who grow up strong and bold/There are boys quiet and kind/ Some place on ahead, some follow behind/ Some go on their own way and time/
Some women love women/
Some men love men/
Some raise children, some never do/
You can dream all the day never reaching the end of everything possible for you.
In the end, no matter the parent's decision, each parent had to sit down with their child and explain exactly why they were not being allowed to participate in the chorus with their friends. I asked Fink if any of the parents ended up changing their minds about participating after a conversation with their child:
There was a family who came into the studio, they had a son in the sixth grade. The father was in the military, and apparently the mother and father had some pretty 'hearty discussions'. He was against it, she was for it and in the end they left it up to the child. And the child said 'I definitely want to sing that song.' The interesting discussion between the mom and dad was that they had a son in college. And the mother finally looked at the dad and said 'Are you trying to tell me that if our son comes home from college and says he's gay, you're not gonna love him?'
"Everything Possible" is also included on the tracklist for Dancin' In The Kitchen.
The newlyweds will certainly be continuing to make music that embraces diversity, and you can keep up with their albums and children's concerts at their website, cathymarcy.com. Buy Dancin' in the Kitchen: Songs for All Families on Amazon.
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Hannah Hodson
Hannah Hodson is a 22-year old Brooklyn-bred writer and actor. She graduated Hampshire College with a very valuable BA in Theatre and Black Studies. She currently resides in DUMBO, Brooklyn, where she admires the view while writing poetry about gentrification, climate change, race, class and other heavy stuff, but tries to keep a positive outlook on it all. She recently met Abbi and Ilana from Broad City (IRL), and has photos to prove it. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter, for her thoughts on Beyonce.
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this is so sweet and amazing and adorable! yay!
omg. As a Free to Be You and Me DIE HARD (the CD is still in my car), I am SO ready for this album. Really into Dancin in the Kitchen, and excited to listen to the rest.
lisa orton
this is great! it sounds like a catchy tune and i love the video.
KaeLyn
Well this is just adorable and great and lovely. Makes my heart happy!
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No rest for the wicked!
Dear devotees and friends,
Please accept my best wishes. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I haven't written for some weeks due to be overwhelmed with too many things to do. It's probably been the busiest period of my life. But as they say "no rest for the wicked", so I'm sure it's good for me.
Actually one of the main secrets of Krishna consciousness is to keep fully engaged in devotional service. Srila Prabhupada accepted the idea the "an idle mind is the devil's workshop" and we can certainly experience that it's true. If we stop engaging the mind then it starts taking off in all sorts of extreme directions, so it's better to have a little more devotional service than we can easily manage, rather than too little.
So anyway, the last time I wrote was at the end of the Navadvipa Parikama. There were many things I wanted to tell you about it, but you'll have to wait to see the DVD set we're making of it to find out !
Then I went back to Mauritius, which I have now become co-GBC for, with BB Govinda Maharaja, and found some of the situation there embroiled in unfortunate tenseness, and had to start giving a lot of attention to that.
I moved around South Africa for most of March and April. The highlight was the Durban Rathayatra from April 10 to 13. I think Their Lordships Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra devi were pleased, as it was one of the best Rathayatras we've had.
Two of my disciples from Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, Bhakta Rajesh and his wife Vraja Renu compiled a collection of diary entries of mine from earlier years and published them as a book "Travelling in the Service of Srila Prabhupada – Volume 1", and we launched it at the Rathayatra. Harideva prabhu, an expert presenter and MC, announced it from the main stage, and told people that I would sign copies if they came forward immediately.
To my surprise only about 3 people came forward, and it took them some minutes to come. I thought this was going to be a big disaster, and became quite anxious. However the next day, the Saturday of the Rathayatra, I went to the tent we had to display the books and my DVDs, and found a number of people had bought books. I stayed there for about 90 minutes, and a steady stream of people came and I signed books and DVDs for them, so in this way everything was saved.
On the 20th of April Govinda Maharaja and I went back to Mauritius to make a concerted effort to help the situation there. Actually Mauritius is one of the best places in the world for preaching. The people are incredibly favourable to Krishna consciousness and supportive of our activities, but sometimes among our devotees a tendency arises to become political and then things become disturbed.
So Maharaja and I separated the two main projects, the Phoenix temple and the Bon Accueill farm, plus a group of devotees doing congregational preaching also wanted to take direct responsibility for their programmes, so we allowed that, and basically the situation seems to have become more peaceful.
Following that I returned to South Africa on the 26th, and then left for Moscow on the 27th. I landed there on the 28th and spent the night in the flat of Talavan prabhu, one of my disciples there, and then on the 29th set out for Izhevsk, about a 2 hour flight to the east.
I had never been there before and didn't know what to expect, but to my surprise, when I walked through the airport there was a kirtana party mainly made up of my disciples from Kazan, about 400 kms to the south. The whole airport became transformed, and the people who had been on the same flight as me were smiling and appreciating the kirtana.
On the way in from the airport I talked to one of the leaders of the yatra, Vasudeva Suta prabhu, who is the husband of Madhavi Lata dd, one of my disciples there. He told me that the main industry there was making
firearms, particularly rifles. We drove through the downtown area and he pointed out a huge factory. "This is the main factory for Kalashnikov, the makers of the famous AK47" he told me.
I was shocked to hear that, as the AK47 is probably the most famous weapon in the world, and is used not only by the Russian army, but by about every terrorist and revolutionary in the world. I asked Vasudeva Suta "Who is this Kalashnikov person?"
"Mr Kalashnikov's still living here in Izhevsk" Vasudeva Suta told me. "He's a very famous man."
That night and Thursday night, the 30th, we did programmes in the yatra's normal Sunday programme place. They rent a room in the Kalashnikov Museum every Sunday! About 80 devotees gather each week in one of the display rooms of the weapons museum, surrounded by rifles and photos from the revolution in the early 20th century.
In the middle of the room are two huge statues of soldiers (with Kalashnikov rifles of course) so we named them Jaya and VIjaya.
Even though the environment was so unusual for a Krishna conscious programme, still, as the kirtana picked up and the devotees chanted and danced, the material situation was forgotten, and everyone relished pleasure on the transcendental platform.
So now I'm back in Moscow, and tonight I'm flying to a city named Omsk, further to the east. I had to fly back west to Moscow for two hours, and then I'll be flying more than three hours east, as there is no direct
connection between Izhevsk and Omsk, except by train, which takes more than 24 hours.
I will keep you updated more regularly now.
Hoping this meets you well.


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Secure care restricts the liberty of the children under the age of 18 placed in their care. The children / young people can be placed through the Children's Hearings Scotland or the Courts.
Secure accommodation is a form of residential care for the very small number of children whose needs and risks, for a particular period in their lives, can only be managed in the controlled settings of secure care. Such children have been deemed to be a significant risk to themselves or others in the community.
Secure care provides intensive support and safe boundaries that enable these highly vulnerable children to re-engage and move forward positively in their communities. Secure care provides a nurturing environment that is able to address specific needs whilst providing care, including health and education where the learning follows the Curriculum for Excellence.
The Head of Unit
The Head of Unit will be the Named Person for all the young people in their care. The Head must ensure their unit complies with all the relevant Laws and fully considers the guidance that is applicable to secure services.
Placing a Young Person in Secure
If a children's hearing makes a relevant order which contains a secure accommodation authorisation (SAA), it is the Chief Social Work Officer (CSWO) who decides whether or not to implement the SAA.
A CSWO cannot implement an SAA without the consent of the Head of Unit (section 151 of the 2011 Act). If the Head of Unit refuses consent, the CSWO must notify the Principal Reporter so that a hearing can be arranged to review the relevant order (regulation 8 of the 2013 Regulations).
The Children's Hearing (Scotland) Act 2011 (Implementation of Secure Accommodation Authorisation) (Scotland) Regulations 2013, details the decision that the Head of Unit must make when the Chief Social Work Officer has decided to implement a secure accommodation authorisation.
The court can also place young people in secure care on remand or sentence using the Criminal Procedures (Scotland) Act 1995
Wellbeing/Outcomes
The Purchaser (LA's or the Scottish Government) is responsible for planning the intended outcomes for the young person when they are placed in secure care using the appropriate care planning route, e.g. Child's Plan. When a young person is placed in secure care using the secure care contract the purchaser should complete an Individual Placement Agreement (IPA). If the IPA is not completed there is no binding contract in place.
The IPA should detail the identified outcomes based on the SHANARRI (safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible, included) wellbeing indicators and request appropriate interventions to help achieve the best outcomes for each individual young person.
When considering the intended outcomes of the secure placement local authorities and providers should where possible take account of the child, their Parents, Relevant Person, and other professional's views.
Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC) is the national approach in Scotland to improving outcomes and supporting the wellbeing of our children and young people by offering the right help at the right time from the right people. The secure units use the SHANARRI wellbeing indicators to evidence the progress of each individual young person during their placement in secure care. Information is gathered at regular intervals from the young person, practitioners, lead professional and where appropriate the young person's parents. That information enables the units to measure the young person's progress.
In safeguarding the Child or Young Person each Provider of secure care has a set of policies and procedures which cover the delivery of the Service and meets the requirement of the Care Inspectorate, other regulatory bodies as appropriate and Councils as the lead bodies for Child Protection issues.
These policies and procedures should include, but not be limited to:
Promoting Positive Behaviour
Managing Challenging Behaviour
Holding Safely
Drugs and Alcohol policy
Methods of Care and Control in compliance with the Holding Safely Guidelines
Sanctions and consequences
Confidentiality and Data Protection
Children's and Young People's Rights
Participation strategy
Anti-discriminatory Practice
Promoting Children and Young People's Rights to be Safe, Well-Cared for and Listened to
Independent Advocacy for the Child or Young Person
Unauthorised absence of a Child or Young Person – relevant policies, procedures, protocols
Record Keeping and Information Policy
Complaints Register
Service User Agreement
Risk assessment and risk management
Single separation and segregation
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