Leigh Roberts

The recommendations for policy are reform of equalities legislation, better support for individual perpetrators and measures to improve relations between social landlords and medico-welfare agencies involved in ASB control. This book presents an analysis of relevant developments in antisocial behaviour (ASB), social housing and disability equality law and policy. Using an empirical study of social landlord organisations, which includes detailed analysis of case files, a review of their policies, as well as focus groups and interviews with managers and officers, it shows how housing professionals operate in this framework. This analysis provides an in-depth account of how housing professionals make medical, moral and risk-based judgements and assessments of perpetrators they know or suspect to have mental health or learning difficulties. It explains how these factors inform the process of managing complaints about ASB arguing that they lead to different outcomes for occupants of social housing. The importance of the book relates to housing officers' constructions of disability and their potentially discriminatory consequences: officers' minimal compliance with equality law or extraordinary treatment may correspondingly result in social exclusion or inclusion.

The Healthy Company is a handbook for directors and executives – and those on their way to getting there. Leading a company today means managing the uses of its resources and relationships and how it deals with the resulting effects over time as these effects will come back to impact the company, negatively or positively, in the future. It is this circle of integrated thinking that is essential to a healthy and sustainable company. The book considers a company’s purpose and strategy under an integrated thinking approach. It also takes readers through a history of the company structure itself and the corporate revolutions that have happened along the way. A healthy company needs a healthy board, therefore, good corporate governance and the role of the board is explored. Practical tips and considerations are given for being a director, with FAQs. The successful running of board meetings is covered as well as the role of the board leader, along with a list of features which make for a good Chair. The Healthy Company proffers four matters that should be discussed at every board meeting to keep directors informed and to cultivate better decision-making. A healthy company needs integrated reporting that reflects its integrated thinking approach. This reporting should be internal for management and the board, but should also result in the annual integrated report released to investors and other stakeholders. This book covers the best practice guidance on preparing an integrated report, with FAQs for directors and executives. The Healthy Company offers a seven-step process which focuses on integration and a healthy company for the longer term.

What If... A long time ago, in order to avoid extinction, the ancient Sasquatch interbred with the humans. What if... The community repopulated, and lived in peace and harmony with all creation for generation after generation -- until the compassionate act of their Healer set it all on end. Coming across an abandoned infant, the Healer Adia rescues the forbidden Outsider child and brings it back to their underground community - breaking the sacred laws set down by the Ancients for the protection of the community.. When the Leader returns from a tribal council meeting and finds what she has done, he takes her compassionate act as an affront to his authority and an unforgiveable threat to the People's welfare. If she had known the consequences, would she have made the same decision? Things were never easy between them - the beautiful young Healer and Kthama's powerful virile leader. Perhaps if she had known, the secret he harbored about her, she might have better understood the difficulty of their relationship. She was prepared for him to be angry. She was prepared for him to punish her. But she was not prepared for Khon'Tor's Wrath. Khon'Tor's Wrath is the first in a multi-book series based on the world of Etera. Set in a community of hybrid human/Sasquatch, the series follows the lives of the young Healer Adia, the community's leader Khon'Tor, the High Protector Acaraho, and the Outsider child whom the Healer rescued. But regardless of the setting, this is a heroine's journey and the quest for that which we all collectively hold dear - love, honor, belonging - justice.

The Healer's MantleWhat if...recovering from the Leader's punishment for her defiance, the Healer moves forward raising the Outsider child as best she can. When unforeseen consequences of Khon'Tor's wrath materialize, Adia turns to the People's High Council for help. But instead of receiving mercy and wisdom, she is forced to make a terrible choice-one no woman should ever have to make. Struggling under the cruelty of the High Council's judgment, only the presence of the People's High Protector, Acaraho, brings her any comfort. But the fire that warms, also burns. Forbidden to mate, she prepares to live a life of unsatisfied longing for the compelling, virile, man she has fallen in love with. But can she live with her choice? Or will she set aside a Healer's calling to fulfill a woman's dream? A dream she surrendered long ago, when she accepted The Healer's Mantle. The Healer's Mantle is the second book in the Series Wrak-Ayya: The Age of Shadows by best-selling author Leigh Roberts. This high fantasy will take you on the adventure of a lifetime, set in the underground cave systems of the human-hybrid Sasquatch who ages ago barely escaped extinction.