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In this article Jeremy Braund describes the rationale behind the use of discrete classes in education provision for people with mental health problems, focusing on: the advantages and disadvantages compared with mainstream provision. He goes on to pose a number of questions about this rationale, and invites more people to join the debate, to seek and provide answers.

Snakes and Ladders: Adult education and mental health video‐based action pack. Jeremy Braund, Richard Hooper, Stewart Moore and Robin Hoyle (Eds.). Looseleaf folder with 2 videos. Produced by the Lancashire Stepping Stones Project.

‘[Learning] helps all of us to improve our chances of getting a job and getting on …encourages independence …has opened up the chance to explore or become creative. It helps make ours a civilised society, develops the spiritual side of our lives and provides active citizenship. Learning enables people to play a full part in their community, it helps us fulfil our potential and opens doors to a love of music, art and literature. That is why we value learning for its own value as well as for the equality of opportunity it brings.‘Learning contributes to social cohesion and fosters a sense of belonging, responsibility and identity.’

Kate Peden and Sandra Hall describe the making of a multimedia resource on the benefits of learning for people with mental health difficulties, in which service users themselves played a key role.

Hoskin and Macve have suggested that the crucial discontinuity in accounting’s development over the last two centuries occurred with its use for disciplinary purposes at the Springfield Armory in the USA in the 1830s and 1840s. Questions the applicability of their thesis to Britain through an examination of the manuscript records of the Dowlais Iron Company. Determines that, at Dowlais, in the mid‐nineteenth century, the accounting system was used for administrative co‐ordination and managerial decision‐making purposes, but does not appear to have been used for purposes of labour discipline, even though this was a matter of concern. Suggests that the Dowlais management, through the use of other methods to counter indiscipline, was able to develop and utilize the accounting system in other ways; also suggests that accounting in Britain may have developed somewhat differently from that in the USA. Suggests that future research into the history of accounting needs to examine the possibility of separate development paths resulting from varying socio‐economic contexts in different countries.