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Week ending 18 July 2008
| | | Responses to child neglect |
| | Summarises the research and findings of Ruth Gardner's report 'Developing an effective response to neglect and emotional harm to children', 2008. Indicates key implications for practice. |
| | Publication Details: | Community Care Issue 1727, 2008 pp 24-25 |
| | Authors: | Gupta, Anna |
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| | | When care order can be made before a placement order. |
| | Presents the case of T, where the Court of Appeal ruled that the local authority should not have followed the usual practice of making a placement order at the same time as a care order. Since the children were unable to form attachments following a very damaging upbringing from parents with severe learning difficulties, professionals were unsure that adoption might be at all viable, and more time was needed before this decision could be made. |
| | Publication Details: | Community Care Issue 1726, 2008 pp 21 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Mitchell, Ed |
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Child and family services |
| | | Adoption from abroad of a relative child. |
| | Aims to explore pertinent legislation, procedures and issues associated with kinship placements where the UK is the receiving State. Discusses international perspectives on inter-country adoption, complying with UK regulations, the duties of local authorities and Trusts, and the four provisions governing inter-country adoption in the Immigration Rules. Looks at kinship care research outcomes, assessment issues and considers key issues for good practice. |
| | Publication Details: | London: British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF), 2007 pp 16 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLM NT |
| | Authors: | Haworth, Gill, and Way, Jan |
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| | | Speaking out briefing no.3: children and young people's access to services in rural areas. |
| | Outlines key policy proposals to improve access to services, and directing services through local partnerships. Summarises the main legislation aimed at improving outcomes for children and young people in rural areas and details key research findings on the experiences of children and young people in relation to rural housing, work and social opportunities. Considers what opportunities this agenda may present for the children and young people's voluntary and community sector, including support for seasonal communities and confidential advice to young people in close-knit communities. |
| | Publication Details: | [London]: National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO), 2007 pp 8 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QKE HR |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Corporate Authors: | NCVCCO; NCVYS |
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| | | Telephone helplines directory 2008-9. |
| | Contains details of telephone helplines throughout the UK, providing services around: alcohol; bereavement; carers; children and young people; disability; domestic violence; drugs; education; emotional distress; employment; family and parents; gender identity; health; HIV and AIDS; housing and homelessness; immigration and asylum; learning disability; legal and civil rights; lesbians, gay men and bisexuals; mental health; missing persons; money and debt; older people; prisoners and ex-offenders; rape and sexual abuse. Also includes details of services operating in the Republic of Ireland. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Resource Information Service, 2008 pp 412 |
| | ISBN: | 9781906084080 |
| | Shelf Mark: | REF/DIR |
| | Authors: | Hoffland, Antoinette et al |
| | Corporate Authors: | Telephone Helplines Association |
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| | | Adoption, resilience and the importance of stories: the making of a film about teenage adoptees. |
| | Describes the work of a group for teenage adoptees where they created a film about being adopted. It highlights how narratives are important in adoption, particularly in relation to development, attachment and resilience. |
| | Publication Details: | Adoption and Fostering Volume 32 Issue 1, 2008 pp 58-68 |
| | Authors: | Fitzhardinge, Helen |
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| | | Child welfare workers' practice in cases involving domestic violence. |
| | Reports the findings of a qualitative study into child welfare workers' practice in cases involving domestic violence. It focused on the interventions used, elements influencing child welfare workers' decisions and what obstacles there were to intervention. Results showed that child welfare workers have different ways of intervening in cases involving domestic violence, and that these interventions were centred on the women victims of violence. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse Review Volume 17 Issue 3, 2008 pp 174-190 |
| | Authors: | Bourassa, Chantal et al |
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| | | Counselling services for young people. |
| | Presents the policy context around the development of counselling services for young people, gives an overview of the provision of services and outlines the different approaches in voluntary sector counselling services. Concludes with recommendations for the improvement of services. |
| | Publication Details: | Highlight Issue 239, 2008 pp [1-4] |
| | Authors: | Street, Cathy |
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| | | Promoting foster carer strengths: suggestions for strengths-based practice. |
| | Suggests that a strengths based approach to working with foster carers could be of value. It looks at the theoretical background to a strengths based approach and then uses a case study to illustrate elements of a strengths based approach. |
| | Publication Details: | Adoption and Fostering Volume 32 Issue 1, 2008 pp 19-28 |
| | Authors: | Odell, Tim |
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| | | The experience of adoption (2): the association between communicative openness and self-esteem in adoption. |
| | Suggests that adoptive parents underestimate the difficulty that their children have in talking about adoption. Results showed that children who found it harder to talk about their adoption at age 11, experienced lower self esteem and were more likely to feel different from their adoptive families. |
| | Publication Details: | Adoption and Fostering Volume 32 Issue 1, 2008 pp 29-39 |
| | Authors: | Beckett, Celia et al |
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| | | The use of attachment theory in adoption and fostering. |
| | Explores the relevance of attachment theory to fostering and adoption. It looks at important qualities of substitute carers, the attachment patterns of both children and potential substitute carers, how attachment theory can help to select substitute carers and ways of matching carers and children. |
| | Publication Details: | Adoption and Fostering Volume 32 Issue 1, 2008 pp 49-57 |
| | Authors: | Walker, Jim |
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Child health, development and welfare |
| | | A little book of alcohol: activities to explore alcohol issues with young people. |
| | Provides thirty ideas and activities for work with young people aged 13 to 16 who are exploring issues around alcohol. It is split into three sections - warm-ups, activities and reviewing - and is suitable for anyone working with young people. Provides examples of easy-to-use activities and exercises to open a session around alcohol. Includes activity ideas for group and individual work covering information and knowledge, and exploring attitudes and developing with the aim of providing young people with a better understanding of alcohol and its effects. |
| | Publication Details: | Leicester: The National Youth Agency, 2003 pp 71 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLR DNU |
| | Authors: | Rogers, Vanessa |
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| | | Analysts in the trenches: streets, schools, war zones. |
| | Brings together the experiences of community psychoanalysts, their methods and recommendations for community work, difficulties they have encountered and their program successes. Explores the emotional sequelae to violence, including sexual and physical abuse; to multiple and traumatic losses; and to learning inhibitions and devises community responses to the scapegoating of classes and groups, to homelessness, and to variations in family structures. |
| | Publication Details: | Hillsdale, New Jersey ; London: The Analytic Press, 2004 pp 331 |
| | ISBN: | 0881633453 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QMN UPC E |
| | Authors: | Sklarew, Bruce H. ed. et al |
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| | | Ending child abuse deaths: a special supplement produced by the Guardian in association with the NSPCC. |
| | Supplement to the Guardian newspaper. Articles look at: the history of child abuse and deaths with statistics and case studies; the calls to change the child protection system following Lord Laming's inquiry into Victoria Climbie's death and the NSPCC's Full Stop campaign; what the government can do including views from MPs; and what the public can do to help (this final article is available online at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2002/oct/23/childrensservices3) |
| | Publication Details: | The Guardian, [2002] pp 8 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLJ KN |
| | Corporate Authors: | The Guardian; NSPCC |
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| | | Speaking out briefing no.1: knife, gun and gang crime. |
| | Outlines key policy proposals relating to youth gangs, the Respect agenda and funding programmes supporting community groups working on issues related to gun, knife and gang crime. Summarises the main legislation relating to the sale and possession of knives and guns. Details key research findings relating to the extent of gun and knife crime, the prevalence of knife carrying amongst young people and the factors influencing young people to join gangs; and considers the contribution that the children and young people's voluntary and community sector is making to address these issues. |
| | Publication Details: | [London]: National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO), 2007 pp 16 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QT |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Corporate Authors: | NCVCCO; NCVYS |
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| | | 'Failure to thrive' revisited. |
| | Considers the ways in which the causes of failure to thrive have been approached in the past and makes suggestions for best practice. It argues that except in a minority of cases, failure to thrive is due to insufficient intake of calories, and that centile charts should be routinely completed for all young children. If growth problems are identified a multi-factorial assessment should be undertaken. Possible interventions are then summarised. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse Review Volume 17 Issue 3, 2008 pp 147-159 |
| | Authors: | Batchelor, Jane |
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| | | A model for life-story work: facilitating the construction of personal narrative for foster children. |
| | Presents the life-story work model, an interactive model of the self and the external systems interconnected by attunement (being aware of, and responsive to, another), facilitated by an individual's construction of self. Suggests the co-construction of the life-story is a critical aspect of the development of self and therefore plays an important role in the attunement one experiences within the nexus of the two systems. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Volume 12 Issue 4, 2007 pp 193-195 |
| | Authors: | Cook-Cottone, Catherine, and Beck, Meredith |
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| | | Attachment measures for research and practice. |
| | Reviews strategies and specific measures for assessing attachment in infancy and childhood. Highlights that although the evidence base for a number of measures is strong, the incorporation of these measures into clinical practice has been slow. Some of the practical barriers to include attachment measures in clinical practice are considered, and ideas for overcoming these barriers are proposed. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Volume 12 Issue 4, 2007 pp 187-192 |
| | Authors: | O'Conner, Thomas G., and Byrne, J. Gerard |
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| | | Children with challenging behaviour. |
| | Summarises research into Children 1st's Directions projects entitled 'Changing directions for children with challenging behaviour and their families'. Gives an overview of practice implications. |
| | Publication Details: | Community Care Issue 1729, 2008 pp 26-27 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Blewett, James |
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| | | Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis. |
| | Analysis of 13 studies with 498 subjects and 311 controls concludes cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) appears an effective treatment for childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders in comparison to waiting list or attention control. Explains CBT can be used with children over six years of age and can be delivered in different formats: individual, group or family/parent. Findings show CBT appears effective in just over 50% of cases and there is no difference between formats. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Volume 12 Issue 4, 2007 pp 164-172 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Ishikawa, Shin-ichi et al |
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| | | Managing psychotic illness in young people: a practical overview. |
| | Takes a symptoms-based approach, collating and summarising recent evidence regarding best practice when managing young people affected by schizophrenia, schizoaffective or bipolar affective disorder. |
| | Publication Details: | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Volume 12 Issue 4, 2007 pp 173-186 |
| | Authors: | Tiffin, Paul A. |
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| | | Meeting the needs of children with foetal alcohol syndrome. |
| | Report of a project by adoption agency Parents for Children. Suggests a multi-disciplinary assessment of a child and a full history of the birthmother is vital in finding appropriate support for families. Indicates children suffering from foetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) need to be given information in chunks and may have high IQs but learn slowly. |
| | Publication Details: | Community Care Issue 1729, 2008 pp 22-23 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Gulland, Anne |
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| | | Why Bridgend? |
| | Looks at the negative effects of media attention on the people of Bridgend, in Wales, where there has been a comparatively high number of suicides among young men aged 15-24. Mentions unemployment, mental health and suicide statistics for the area. |
| | Publication Details: | Community Care Issue 1726, 2008 pp 14-15 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Hayes, Derren |
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| | | Improving safeguarding practice: study of serious case reviews 2001-2003. [Research brief]. |
| | Executive summary of the second biennial study of 40 serious case reviews undertaken during 2001-2003. Presents the key findings, conclusions and implications. The report concludes the effectiveness of serious case reviews could be improved, highlighting good practice and suggesting reviews should not be the only source of knowledge for improving safeguarding practice. |
| | Publication Details: | Nottingham: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), 2008 pp 5 |
| | ISBN: | 9781847750952 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Rose, Wendy, and Barnes, Julie |
| | Corporate Authors: | Open University |
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| | | Improving safeguarding practice: study of serious case reviews 2001-2003. [Research report]. |
| | Second biennial study of 40 serious case reviews undertaken during 2001-2003. Looks at: common recommendations; whether findings resulted in action plans; what helped or hindered the implementation of action plans; and if reviews led to changes in policy or practice at a local or national level. Concludes the effectiveness of serious case reviews could be improved, highlighting good practice and suggesting reviews should not be the only source of knowledge for improving safeguarding practice. |
| | Publication Details: | Nottingham: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), 2008 pp 102 |
| | ISBN: | 9781847750952 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLJ KOX 6C |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Rose, Wendy, and Barnes, Julie |
| | Corporate Authors: | Open University |
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| | | Independent safeguarding scheme: vetting and barring. |
| | Summary of the Government's consultation on the Independent Safeguarding Authority's new scheme for England and Wales on vetting and barring, which covers those who work or volunteer, or seek to work or volunteer with children or vulnerable adults. |
| | Publication Details: | London: National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO), 2007 pp [8] |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLJ JDR DDR |
| | Corporate Authors: | NCVCCO |
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| | | Licensed to hug: how child protection policies are poisoning the relationship between the generations and damaging the voluntary sector. |
| | Argues that the growth of police vetting and the Criminal Records Bureau regarding working with children, has created mistrust. It suggests that adults are afraid to interact with children who are not their own, and that the generations are becoming distant as adults suspect each other and children learn to suspect adults. It looks at CRB checks, 'no touch' policies, risk aversion and distrust, and advocates that most adults can be trusted and the interaction between generations enriches children's lives. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Civitas, 2008 pp 64 |
| | ISBN: | 9781903386699 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QDF R |
| | Authors: | Furedi, Frank, and Bristow, Jennie |
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| | | The children's plan: building brighter futures: a summary. |
| | NCVCCO summary of The Children's Plan, which was published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) on 11 December 2007. Presents an overview of the Government's intentions for the next ten years under each of the DCSF's strategic objectives. Summarises the Government's plans in relation to parenting; child poverty; safeguarding; early years; schools and learning; key areas for reform in order to achieve greater transformation of the lives of children and young people; and reducing youth crime. |
| | Publication Details: | London: National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO), 2007 pp 12 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLA GP8 EA |
| | Corporate Authors: | NCVCCO |
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| | | Vetting and barring. |
| | A summary of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, which lays the foundation for a new vetting and barring scheme to prevent unsuitable people from working with children or vulnerable adults. Provides an overview of the barred lists and the application process for those applying to work with children, and employers' duties to refer information. |
| | Publication Details: | London: National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO), 2007 pp 8 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLJ JDR DDR |
| | Corporate Authors: | NCVCCO |
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| | | Gang prevention. |
| | Takes a look at gangs from the conditions that enable them, the consequences of membership, the history, incidence and demographics. Prevention measures by police, communities, child protection services and schools are discussed and the comprehensive strategy of the U.S. Department of Justice. |
| | Publication Details: | Virginia Child Protection Newsletter Volume 80, 2007 pp 1-24 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
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| | | Still learning to walk. |
| | An assessment of the first year of the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Agencies give their views on whether it is succeeding in pursuing a holistic view of children's lives. |
| | Publication Details: | Community Care Issue 1729, 2008 pp 18-19 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Taylor, Amy |
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Children's rights, participation and attitudes |
| | | Speaking out briefing no.2: the government's social exclusion agenda. |
| | Outlines key policy proposals relating to social exclusion experienced by children and young people. Explains the implications of the cross-government action plan on social exclusion for policy relating to children and young people. Summarises the main legislation introduced since 1997 to address social exclusion experienced by children and young people, and details key research findings on lead professionals, special educational needs and children in care. Considers what opportunities this agenda may present for the children and young people's voluntary and community sector, including provision of outreach and advice services. |
| | Publication Details: | [London]: National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO), 2007 pp 12 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLG P |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Corporate Authors: | NCVCCO; NCVYS |
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| | | The mission. |
| | 12 young people are to present findings of their own research into children's rights in the UK, as part of the Get Ready for Geneva initiative supported by the Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE). Looks at how the young people were trained and how they consulted children on play, education, respect and health and safety, using online surveys and focus groups. Gives a summary of the 14 proposals. |
| | Publication Details: | Community Care Issue 1726, 2008 pp 16-17 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Jacobs, Nina |
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Disability and special needs |
| | | Disability and impairment: working with children and families. |
| | Explores the implications of disability theory and policy for social workers working with families of children with disabilities. Outlines the social and medical models of disability and covers the spectrum of disability issues, providing information and advice for practitioners. Explains the value of family support, how to validate the feelings of siblings with disabled brothers and sisters, how to tackle social exclusion and understanding the role of lifelong professional help. Includes case studies and practice notes for social work practitioners and students. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Jessica Kingsley, 2008 pp 168 |
| | ISBN: | 9781843103967 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QML D |
| | Authors: | Burke, Peter |
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| | | Family group conferences: where next? policies and practices for the future. |
| | A series of essays from policy, research and practice perspectives, aimed at providing practitioners, managers and policy makers with ideas on how best to deliver and develop family group conference practices. Chapters cover family decision making in a changing context; working towards an effective agency mandate for family group conferences; the provision of family group conferences for ethnic minority groups; families experiences; children and young people's participation; implementation, research and practice; practice developments; education and youth justice family group conferences; family decision making to plan for safety in domestic violence; and taking family group conferences forward at a local level. |
| | Publication Details: | London: Family Rights Group, 2007 pp 320 |
| | ISBN: | 1871515459 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QDL PS |
| | Authors: | Ashley, Cathy ed., and Nixon, Paul ed. |
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| | | In the shadow of the prison: imprisonment, families and criminal justice. |
| | Provides an up-to-date, accessible introduction to the relationship between families, prisons and penal policies in the United Kingdom. Explores debates relating to prisoners and their families, and introduces relevant theoretical approaches, incorporating perspectives drawn from criminology, sociology, social work and law. Explores key aspects of the consequences of imprisonment for prisoners and their families and assesses the role of prison policies and practices in promoting and maintaining family relationships. Presents a summary of the law in relation to prisoners and their families, with reference to the relevant legislation and case law. |
| | Publication Details: | Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2008 pp 201 |
| | ISBN: | 9781843922452 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QQR DDE K |
| | Authors: | Codd, Helen |
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| | | The use of parenting contracts and parenting orders by local authorities and registered social landlords. |
| | NCVCCO briefing paper providing statutory guidance on the amendments to the Anti-social behaviour Act 2003 by the Police and Justice Act (PJA) 2006, which states that Local Authorities and Registered Social Landlords may enter into parenting contracts and apply for parenting orders with the parents or carers of children who are involved in anti-social behaviour. |
| | Publication Details: | London: National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO), 2007 pp [7] |
| | Shelf Mark: | QOV |
| | Corporate Authors: | NCVCCO |
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| | | What can parents do: new insights into the role of parents in adolescent problem behavior. |
| | Discusses adolescent problem behaviour, focusing on theory and research about the role of parents in guiding their adolescents successfully through the adolescent transitions. Examines research exploring how the roles that adolescents and parents play in their interactions can lead to problem behaviour and challenges some of the widely-held assumptions about parenting adolescents. Looks at secrecy, concealment and disclosure in adolescent-parent relationships; links between parenting and peer relationships; parental monitoring and the early emergence of drug use; positive parenting, and positive characteristics and values in children. |
| | Publication Details: | Chichester: Wiley, 2008 pp 291 |
| | ISBN: | 9780470723630 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QGI MMT |
| | Authors: | Kerr, Margaret ed., and Stattin, Hakan ed., and Engels, Rutger ed. |
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| | | A study describing mothers' opinions of the crying behaviour of infants under one year of age. |
| | Aims to describe mothers' opinions of infant crying behaviour to gain information for the design of parenting education, and to help prevent shaking of babies. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse Review Volume 17 Issue 3, 2008 pp 191-200 |
| | Authors: | Nash, Chris, and Morris, Jenny, and Goodman, Benny |
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| | | Review of criminality information: executive summary and recommendations. |
| | Examines and recommends necessary improvements for recording and sharing information about criminality between agencies and services within the UK and between the UK and other countries. |
| | Publication Details: | [London]: Review of Criminality Information (ROCI), [2008] pp 37 |
| | ISBN: | 4907818472665 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Magee, Ian |
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| | | The review of criminality information. |
| | Examines and recommends necessary improvements for recording and sharing information about criminality between agencies and services within the UK and between the UK and other countries. |
| | Publication Details: | [London]: Review of Criminality Information (ROCI), [2008] pp 153 |
| | ISBN: | 9781847266569 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Magee, Ian |
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| | | Girls gone bad. |
| | Researchers from the Centre for Policy Studies and the director of Kids Company discuss reasons for rising violence and behaviour problems in girls, including poor parenting and poor state support. Youth Justice systems and girl-only programmes are criticised for not adapting to the needs of this group. |
| | Publication Details: | Community Care Issue 1727, 2008 pp 18-19 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Mickel, Andrew |
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| | | Walker's welfare woes. |
| | Chair for the Secure Accommodation Network, Roy Walker, argues that the closure of many secure homes is having a negative effect on the rehabilitation of young offenders and the homes offer better education and welfare support for the most damaged young people. He argues the case for improving the way leavers are supported following release from care. |
| | Publication Details: | Community Care Issue 1728, 2008 pp 18-19 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Ahmed, Maria |
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| | | Researching families and communities: social and generational change. |
| | Explores research and the research methods used to look at change in the last half of the twentieth century. It covers issues such as sexuality and history, minority ethnic communities, families and social change, motherhood and education. |
| | Publication Details: | Abingdon, Oxfordshire.: Routledge, 2008 pp 214 |
| | ISBN: | 9780415427128 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QAS QJ |
| | Authors: | Edwards, Rosalind ed. |
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| | | Bullying behaviour in schools: what roles do teachers play? |
| | Examines bullying between teachers and students at two time points. Thirty percent of students said they were bullied by teachers at both times, 28% and 16% of students said they bullied teachers at the two time points. It explores the idea that if teachers are victimised or engage in bullying this has implications for the success of anti-bullying programmes. |
| | Publication Details: | Child Abuse Review Volume 17 Issue 3, 2008 pp 160-173 |
| | Authors: | James, Deborah J. et al |
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| | | Moving away from a culture of blame to that of support-based approaches to bullying in schools. |
| | Considers the value of a non-punitive approach to dealing with bullying in a primary school. The project involved working with pupils involved in bullying using the stages and principles of the Support Group Method (SGM) and collecting data through interviews, observations and field notes. Concludes in this instance a support-based approaches to managing bullying was effective. |
| | Publication Details: | Pastoral Care in Education Volume 25 Issue 4, 2007 pp 4-11 |
| | Authors: | Bray, Louise, and Lee, Chris |
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| | | Setting up an email peer support scheme. |
| | Study of an email support group in an all-boys school set up in response to an incident of physical bullying and after consultation found email was the preferred mode of support. Discusses the reasons for this and presents details of how the support system was set up and operated, and reports the outcomes. Concludes email provides a good medium for peer support schemes in schools, as it increases anonymity, and reduces concerns about 'grassing'. |
| | Publication Details: | Pastoral Care in Education Volume 25 Issue 4, 2007 pp 12-16 |
| | Authors: | Hutson, Nicky, and Cowie, Helen |
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| | | More precious than gold. |
| | A 3 minute campaign video by Unicef about trafficking. Presented by Robbie Williams. |
| | Publication Details: | UNICEF, [2008] |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Corporate Authors: | UNICEF |
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| | | A handbook on planning projects to prevent child trafficking. |
| | A handbook focusing on increasing the amount of work being done in the field of child trafficking and improving the quality of preventive work. Includes an overview of terminology related to human trafficking, the exploitation of children and prevention. Discusses the preparatory steps, which includes analysing the problem, identifying resources and opportunities available, and assessing limitations, obstacles and risks. Looks at the places where children are trafficked from, when they are in transit, and the destinations where trafficked children are exploited. Concludes with learning which interventions are effective at preventing trafficking and a summary of key points. |
| | Publication Details: | Lausanne, Switzerland: International Federation Terre Des Hommes, 2007 pp 72 |
| | ISBN: | 2970045729 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QSL X |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | Dottridge, Mike |
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| | | Institutional child sexual abuse and suicidal behaviour: outcomes of a literature review, consultation meetings and a qualitative study. |
| | Outcomes of consultation meetings with people who experienced institutional child sex abuse and a qualitative study on the views of specialist support services available finds that drug abuse and social isolation are major factors associated with suicidal behaviour and identifies relationships, children and education as major protective factors. Recommends a multidisciplinary treatment approach is required within the support services. |
| | Publication Details: | Cork, Ireland: National Suicide Research Foundation, 2007 pp 49 |
| | ISBN: | 9780955791406 |
| | Website: | Click Here |
| | Authors: | O'Riordan, Martina, and Arensman, Ella |
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| | | Care matters: time for a change. |
| | A summary of the White Paper 'Care Matters: Time for Change', which sets out the Government's proposals to reform the services that children in care receive. The paper is split into seven sections, each covering a particular aspect of the care reform agenda: corporate planning; family and parenting support; care placements; delivering first class education; promoting health and wellbeing; transition to adulthood; and the role of the practitioner. |
| | Publication Details: | London: National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO), 2007 pp [8] |
| | Shelf Mark: | QLE KX |
| | Corporate Authors: | NCVCCO |
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| | | Social work and multi-agency working: making a difference. |
| | Explores the issues of multi-agency working for social work education and practice. It brings together experts from a range of disciplines including child protection, youth justice, child health, education and criminology. Includes perspectives of service users as well as the legal and policy context and key research findings, and provides questions and recommended resources for each section. |
| | Publication Details: | Bristol: Policy Press, 2008 pp 182 |
| | ISBN: | 9781861349453 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QCC E |
| | Authors: | Morris, Kate ed. |
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| | | The emotionally intelligent social worker. |
| | An introduction to emotions and the fundamental part they play in effective and responsive social work practice. It considers the origins of emotions and how they develop across the lifespan, the emotional wellbeing of social workers and their clients and how this can affect mental and physical health. It covers issues including the brain, cognitive behavioural therapies and the practitioner relationship and emotional intelligence. |
| | Publication Details: | Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 pp 221 |
| | ISBN: | 9780230202788 |
| | Shelf Mark: | QBB CC |
| | Authors: | Howe, David |
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| | | 'Social care', the 'care ethic' and 'carework': new definitions, new directions? |
| | Examines the related concepts of 'social care', 'care ethic' and 'carework'. Suggests the narrow idea of social care meaning only services delivered by an industry of providers has some disadvantages. Broader perspectives are explored such as the notion of carework which transcends traditional conceptual and professional boundaries. The relative merits of different conceptions of care are discussed and their implications for policy and practice are considered. |
| | Publication Details: | Research Policy and Planning Volume 25 Issue 1, 2007 pp 3-11 |
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| | Authors: | Huxley, Peter, and Evans, Sherrill, and Maegusuku-Hewett, Tracey |
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| | | Re-inflating egos. |
| | Reports in the press and other media about welfare tragedies, such as child deaths, can have a serious effect on the morale and confidence of social care staff. Looks at ways to manage the situation in terms of press statements and communication with staff and council members. |
| | Publication Details: | Community Care Issue 1727, 2008 pp 14-16 |
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| | Authors: | Taylor, Amy |
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