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The National Council for Civil Liberties exists to help people where individual or collective liberties are threatened. Several cases are shown, and the philosophy and methods of the organisation are discussed.
Peper Harow used to be an approved school but has been turned into a therapeutic community for disturbed adolescent boys. The boys discuss what the community means to them and how their problems are handled.
Looks at several different families and the ways in which sons and daughters have tried to resolve the problem of what to do with parents who need looking after. Should old people go into homes? What kind of...
The right of individuals to appeal, if they are unable to manage on the supplementary benefits given by their local Social Security office.
About the Dingleton Psychiatric Hospital in Scotland, which has an ‘open door’ policy. Patients have a say in their own and other patients’ treatment. Sensitivity sessions and group therapy are shown.
A dramatised documentary about a vagrant alcoholic woman, with Patricia Hayes and Barbara Jefford. Explores the problems suffered and caused by tramps.*
About the women who are left to support their children by themselves.
Families can go on for years without a serious talk of any kind. When crisis comes - death, divorce, bankruptcy - members may discover that they have never really understood one another. For the Browns (this...
If a policeman stops an individual in the street and asks to search him, can he refuse? And if the policeman wants to take him to the station, must he go?
Traces, in retrospect, the short life of a 19-year-old girl (Gale) from her abandonment by her mother at 6 months to her death in the basement of a derelict house in Chelsea from an overdose of drugs. Gale,...
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