Phil Smith
Executive Producer, Spoken Features, Radio New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand
TOPIC: Explore the political, media, and social factors contributing to the popular fallacy that people with mental illnesses are dangerous and violent. Investigate the impact of public fear on people experiencing mental illnesses and on health care practice, particularly within New Zealand prisons.
A survey of more than 12,000 teenagers has highlighted the emotional pressures young people rate as their most significant. The research has been collected as part of the Travellers Programme, a scheme in place at 80 schools around the country, which sees year nine students complete an online survey about their lives.
British police say thousands of Romanian children have been smuggled into the U.K. to work as thieves and pickpockets.
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