For February 2017 Policy Press are making their most read articles of 2016 free to read. You've got until the end of February 2017. Be quick! Critical & Radical Social Work Promoting activism through critical social work education: the impact of global capitalism and neoliberalism on social work and social work education Assisted dying: the search for a … Continue reading Free journal articles for one month – Policy Press
The PHE has published two important documents about young people’s substance misuse. The first is the 2015-16 annual report, which provides data on young people’s use of specialist substance misuse treatment services, which form part of the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS). The second, a rapid mixed methods evidence review, commissioned by PHE and undertaken … Continue reading What we know about young people in alcohol and drug treatment
This project undertaken by the ISOS Partnership and commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA), has sought to answer two central questions: What are the key enablers of (and barriers to) improvement in local children's services? How can the system as a whole facilitate and support improvement in local children's services? The final report sets … Continue reading Action research: Improvement in local children’s services – LGA
New report from CORC, NSPCC and Loughborough University, Improving Children’s Social Care Services: Results of a feasibility study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The report can be downloaded at source here. It sets out the findings of a feasibility study that aimed to understand how to define ‘good’ children’s social care services and how to assess … Continue reading Improving Children’s Social Care Services: Results of a feasibility study
Your Family, Your Voice, is an alliance of families and practitioners that has been developed by Family Rights Group to counter the stigma and negative presumptions about families whose children are subject to, or at risk of, state intervention. The Alliance is leading a Knowledge Inquiry to look in detail at one part of our … Continue reading Call to Action – Knowledge Inquiry: Children who come into the care system under a voluntary arrangement
By Liane Davey. Originally published on January 31st, 2017. Source: Harvard Business Review There’s no point in collaboration without tension, disagreement, or conflict. https://t.co/0L3af2ZeUz — Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) 1 February 2017 Collaboration is crumpling under the weight of our expectations. What should be a messy back-and-forth process far too often falls victim to our … Continue reading Collaboration: ‘If Your Team Agrees on Everything, Working Together Is Pointless’
This post is intended to draw attention to the learning from a Serious Case Review (SCR) published by Croydon Safeguarding Children Board about a child who for the purpose of the review was named 'Claire'. Claire was taken into care and placed with foster carers. She was then sexually abused by her foster carer. The report was … Continue reading Looked After Reviews & Child Protection Conferences – Learning from SCR ‘Claire’
Trauma sensitive practice with children in care By Judy Furnivall Originally Published 13 Aug 2014. Source: Iriss An enhanced understanding of trauma can enable practitioners and managers, from all the agencies working with children in care, to improve their practice with severely distressed children and to reduce the negative impact of trauma not only on … Continue reading Trauma sensitive practice – Iriss
Source: Eight-year-olds Identified in Infancy as at Risk of Harm: Report of a Prospective Longitudinal Study Research Report: July 2016 By: Rebecca Brown, Harriet Ward, Jenny Blackmore, Caroline Thomas and Georgia Hyde-Dryden: Loughborough University About the study Findings from this study raise important questions about child protection policy and practice. In particular they raise issues concerning … Continue reading Eight-year-olds identified in infancy as at risk of harm: report of a prospective longitudinal study
By Dr Bruce Perry, adapted from the Foreword to his book, Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children, by Richard Rose. EXTRACT A fundamental and permeating strength of humankind is the capacity to form and maintain relationships – the capacity to belong. It is in the context of our clan, community and culture that we are born and … Continue reading ‘Without a life story, a child is adrift, disconnected and vulnerable’ – Dr Bruce Perry on the value and power of the Life Story approach
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