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Critical Practice With Children and Young People.
  Robb, Martin/ 9781847426819
 
  This reader provides a critical perspective on work with children and young people at a time of change. Written by experts with a wide range of academic and professional experience, it examines the ways that ideas inform practice, explores recent changes in the organisation of services, especially moves towards greater integration, and explores what it means to be a critical, reflective practitioner. Covering the whole age range from early years to youth, the book will be relevant to anyone working with children and young people, for example in social work, education, healthcare, youth work, youth justice and leisure services
Critical Practice With Children and Young People.
  Robb, Martin/ 9781847426826
 
  This reader provides a critical perspective on work with children and young people at a time of change. Written by experts with a wide range of academic and professional experience, it examines the ways that ideas inform practice, explores recent changes in the organisation of services, especially moves towards greater integration, and explores what it means to be a critical, reflective practitioner. Covering the whole age range from early years to youth, the book will be relevant to anyone working with children and young people, for example in social work, education, healthcare, youth work, youth justice and leisure services
SB11-376 Children and Young People's Worlds: Developing Frameworks for Integrated Practice.
  Montgomery, Heather/ 9781847423870
 
  This comprehensive reader combines post-graduate level theory with contemporary case studies to illustrate and analyse the complications of children and young people's lived experiences in the UK and worldwide in the early 21st century.Authors in several fields of childhood and youth studies apply their expertise to areas such as young people and the law, children's rights, child protection, sexuality, participation, politics and family life. Using the voices of the children and young people themselves, key topics illustrate important contemporary issues in the study of childhood and youth and show how these impact on policy initiatives and practical interventions in children's lives.
SB11-376 Children and Young People's Worlds: Developing Frameworks for Integrated Practice.
  Montgomery, Heather/ 9781847423887
 
  This comprehensive reader combines post-graduate level theory with contemporary case studies to illustrate and analyse the complications of children and young people's lived experiences in the UK and worldwide in the early 21st century.Authors in several fields of childhood and youth studies apply their expertise to areas such as young people and the law, children's rights, child protection, sexuality, participation, politics and family life. Using the voices of the children and young people themselves, key topics illustrate important contemporary issues in the study of childhood and youth and show how these impact on policy initiatives and practical interventions in children's lives.
SB11-371 Rethinking Residential Child Care: Positive Perspectives.
  Smith, Mark/ 9781861349088
 
  The book sets present day provision within historical, policy and organisational context, and discusses a range of practice issues. The importance of the personal relationship in helping children to grow and develop is highlighted. The author applies a critical gaze to attempts to improve practice through regulation and, fundamentally, challenges how residential child care is conceptualised, arguing that it needs to move beyond dominant discourses of protection and rights to embrace those of care and upbringing. Other traditions of practice such as the European concept of social pedagogy are also explored to more accurately reflect the task of residential child care. The book will be of interest to practitioners in residential child care, social workers and students on social work and social care courses. It should be required reading for social work managers and will also be of interest to policy makers and students of social policy, education and childhood studies.
SB11-371 Rethinking Residential Child Care: Positive Perspectives.
  Smith, Mark/ 9781861349095
 
  The book sets present day provision within historical, policy and organisational context, and discusses a range of practice issues. The importance of the personal relationship in helping children to grow and develop is highlighted. The author applies a critical gaze to attempts to improve practice through regulation and, fundamentally, challenges how residential child care is conceptualised, arguing that it needs to move beyond dominant discourses of protection and rights to embrace those of care and upbringing. Other traditions of practice such as the European concept of social pedagogy are also explored to more accurately reflect the task of residential child care. The book will be of interest to practitioners in residential child care, social workers and students on social work and social care courses. It should be required reading for social work managers and will also be of interest to policy makers and students of social policy, education and childhood studies.
SB11-366 Making Sense of Every Child Matters: Multi-Professional Practice Guidance.
  Barker, Richard/ 9781847420114
 
  This book considers the implications for practice of the 'Every Child Matters' (ECM) agenda for working with children, analysing the key issues from the perspective of the different professions that make up the 'new children's workforce'.
SB11-365 Proactive Child Protection and Social Work.
  Davies, Liz/ 9781844451319
 
  Protecting children from abuse is a serious matter, demanding critical thinking, tenacity, resilience, courage and compassion. This book is designed to show how the social work task of protecting children works. It aims to increase the confidence of those undertaking the work, who need to know and understand the processes involved to be better able to form part of the proactive child protection network. The book locates knowledge and skills within a series of case examples from the authors’ actual practice, making the book an indispensable resource for students, professionals and others concerned with protecting children.
SB11-365 Children, Families and Care: Reflections on the First Sixty Years of FICE.
  Shaw, Robert/ 9781858564456
 
  This book traces the evolution of ideas about bringing up children outside their families through the history of FICE. Originally called the Federation Internationale des Communautes d'Enfant, FICE was set up in 1948 as a result of a UNESCO study into the needs of 'war-handicapped children'. It soon became involved in supporting those working with other children living away from their families, eventually bringing together people from across the world working with street children as well as children in foster and residential care.
SB11-361 Changing Children's Services: Working and Learning Together.
  Foley, Pam/ 9781847420602
 
  Changing children's services: working and learning together focuses on the fundamental changes to children's services associated primarily with the drive towards increasingly integrated ways of working. It critically examines the potential for closer 'working together', its effectiveness and its impact on children, parents and children's services as a whole. It also explores the role of learning in this changing environment. This book will contribute to debates about the knowledge and skills that are seen as essential for work with families in childcare, health, social care and educational children's services.
SB11-358 Children as Victims.
  Kennison, Peter/ 9781844451364
 
  This book highlights the problems, dilemmas and challenges facing the child protection agencies in England and Wales, and tackles a variety of areas where knowledge on child abuse is either limited or out-of-date. Raising awareness of social, demographic, situational and environmental risk factors that may lead to the harming of children, it also looks at difficult cultural issues that sometimes get in the way of protecting children. Any professional working in, or studying, child protection will find this book an essential read.
SB11-357 Promoting Children's Wellbeing: Policy and Practice.
  Collins, Janet/ 9781847420596
 
  Promoting children's wellbeing examines the wide-ranging and growing number of policies and practices which are intended to contribute to children's wellbeing. Topics include: · the development of children's identities, · the value of play in the lives of contemporary children, · the promotion of children's health, · risk and staying safe, and · family law. The contributors draw upon research and practice to analyse and examine the policies, services and practice skills needed for collaborative, effective and equitable work with children.
SB11-356 Exploring Concepts of Child Well-Being: Implications for Children's Services.
  Axford, Nick/ 9781847420657
 
  Policy reforms to children's services in the UK and elsewhere encourage a greater focus on outcomes defined in terms of child well-being. Yet for this to happen, we need not only a better understanding of what child well-being is and how services can improve it, but also the ability to measure child well-being in order to evaluate success. This book investigates the main approaches to conceptualising child well-being, applies them to the child population using household survey and agency audit data, then considers the implications for children's services. The author: - provides a clear conceptual understanding of five definitions of well-being: need, rights, poverty, quality of life and social exclusion - demonstrates the value of each perspective - charts levels of child well-being in an inner-London community, including violated rights and social exclusion - sets out the features that children's services must have if they are to improve child well-being defined in these terms This book should be read by everyone involved in developing, implementing and evaluating children's services, including researchers, policy makers and practitioners.
SB11-355 Connecting with Children: Developing Working Relationships.
  Foley, Pam/ 9781847420589
 
  This accessible textbook illustrates how good communication and positive and participative relationships can be developed with children across the range of universal and specialist children's services.
SB11-354 Residential Child Care and Its Alternatives: International Perspectives.
  Peters, Friedhelm/ 9781858564098
 
  This book is about children facing major difficulties of some kind, and requiring care outside their families. It shows that child and youth care needs to be professionalised and indicates how this can be done. Part One discusses policies, theory and societal developments such as transforming government services for children; the UK’s contribution to child care research and policy development; and a holistic approach to child welfare. Part Two describes professional developments, special projects or concrete initiatives in child care. It provides case studies of the participation of children in their care, and of the preservation and rehabilitation of family relationships among children in residential care. It looks at crisis centres and at new developments in foster care. Contributors include James Anglin (Canada), Jurgen Blandow and Michael Winkler (Germany), Roger Bullock, Adrian Ward and Keith White (England), Bojun Dekleva and Alenka Kobalt (Slovenia), Emmanuel Grupper, Irit Miro and Anita Weiner (Israel), Josef Schiepl and Bettina Terp (Austria). This book is essential reading for everyone who works directly with children and young people who require care outside their families. It will also be of value to their managers, and to researchers and academics, inspectors, government and NGO officials and others concerned about the care of children.
SB11-357 Coming to Care: The Work and Family Lives of Workers Caring for Vulnerable Children.
  Brannen, Julia/ 9781861348500
 
  Coming to Care offers an original contribution to the understanding of care and care work in children's services in Britain in the early twenty first century. It provides fascinating insights into the factors that influence why people enter and leave care work, their motivations and the intersection of their work with their family lives. Focusing on four diverse groups of workers - residential social workers, foster carers, family support workers and community childminders - who take on the care of vulnerable children and young people in the context of relatively low levels of qualifications, the book examines their life course as care workers. It explores: the range of factors that attract people into care work, including the biographical circumstances and the serendipitous factors that propel them into the work; their understandings of and commitment to the work; and how their identities as care workers are created and sustained. The book is highly relevant to current policy debates about the development of children's services and reforming the childcare workforce and offers a range of practical recommendations. It should provide interesting reading to policy makers and service providers, as well as academics and students in the childcare and social care fields.
SB11-356 Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare.
  Powell, Martin/ 9781861347596
 
 
SB11-351 National Evaluation of Sure Start, The: Does Area-Based Early Intervention Work?
  Belsky, Jay/ 9781861349507
 
  The book reviews the history of policies pertaining to child health and well being which preceded and set the stage for Sure Start. It provides insight into how SSLPs were expected to function and how they actually operated, both in terms of their strengths, weaknesses and costs. The contributors: · examine the nature of the communities in which these programmes were situated and how they changed over time. · present the early effects of SSLPs on children and families, with evidence highlighting some small beneficial effects and some small deleterious ones. · extract specific features of SSLPs that contributed to whether individual programmes benefited children and families, providing a guide for the revision of programmes and policies.
SB11-351 National Evaluation of Sure Start, The: Does Area-Based Early Intervention Work?
  Belsky, Jay/ 9781861349491
 
  The book reviews the history of policies pertaining to child health and well being which preceded and set the stage for Sure Start. It provides insight into how SSLPs were expected to function and how they actually operated, both in terms of their strengths, weaknesses and costs. The contributors: · examine the nature of the communities in which these programmes were situated and how they changed over time. · present the early effects of SSLPs on children and families, with evidence highlighting some small beneficial effects and some small deleterious ones. · extract specific features of SSLPs that contributed to whether individual programmes benefited children and families, providing a guide for the revision of programmes and policies.
SB11-341 Growing Up with Risk.
  Thom, Betsy/ 9781861347312
 
  Growing up with risk provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management are defined and applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and young people. It offers valuable insight into the complexities of balancing responsibility for protecting the young with the benefits of risk taking and the need to allow young people to experiment.
SB11-341 Growing Up with Risk.
  Thom, Betsy/ 9781861347329
 
  Growing up with risk provides a critical analysis of ways in which risk assessment and management are defined and applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and young people. It offers valuable insight into the complexities of balancing responsibility for protecting the young with the benefits of risk taking and the need to allow young people to experiment.
SB11-339 Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare.
  Powell, Martin/ 9781861347602
 
  Although state provision may have dominated in Britain since 1945, there is a growing movement towards welfare pluralism - a mixed economy of welfare - involving private, voluntary and informal sectors. This book, written by social policy and welfare experts, sheds light on this neglected area of social policy.
SB11-339 Making It Personal: Individualising Activation Services in the EU.
  Rik van Berkel/ 9781861347978
 
  This book addresses the development of increasingly individualised public social services in the EU. It focuses particularly on activation services that have become crucial in the 'modernisation' of welfare states, comparing their introduction in the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland and the Czech Republic.
SB11-337 Welfare Policy Under New Labour: Views from Inside Westminster.
  Bochel, Hugh/ 9781861347909
 
  Welfare reform is a central part of the modernisation programme adopted by the Labour Government since 1997. This book examines the role of Parliament in the formulation and scrutiny of welfare policy, focusing in particular on how MPs and Peers view their influence on policy.
SB11-336 Health Inequalities and Welfare Resources.
  Conradson, David/ 9781861347572
 
  How welfare states influence population health and health inequalities has long been debated but less well tested by empirical research. This book presents new empirical evidence of the effects of Swedish welfare state structures and policies on the lives of Swedish citizens. However, the discussion, analysis and innovative theoretical approaches developed in the book have wide implications for health research and policy beyond Scandinavian borders.
SB11-335 Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Clinical Social Work Practice.
  Ronen, Tammie/ 9780826102157
 
  Edited by a leading social work authority and a master CBT clinician, this first-of-its-kind handbook provides the foundations and training that social workers need to master cognitive behavior therapy. From traditional techniques to new techniques such as mindfulness meditation and the use of DBT, the contributors ensure a thorough and up-to-date presentation of CBT. Covered are the most common disorders encountered when working with adults, children, families, and couples including: Anxiety disorders Depression Personality disorder Sexual and physical abuse Substance misuse Grief and bereavement Eating disorders Written by social workers for social workers, this new focus on the foundations and applications of cognitive behavior therapy will help individuals, families, and groups lead happier, fulfilled, and more productive lives.
SB11-335 Children, Young People and Social Inclusion: Participation for What?
  Tisdall, E. K. M./ 9781861346629
 
 
SB11-335 Children, Young People and Social Inclusion: Participation for What?
  Tisdall, E. K. M./ 9781861346636
 
  Social inclusion and participation have become policy mantras in the UK and Europe. As these concepts are being translated into policies and practice, it is a critical time to examine - and challenge - their interpretation, implementation and impacts. This book asks how far and in what way social inclusion policies are meeting the needs and rights of children and young people.
SB11-335 Older People and the Law.
  McDonald, Ann/ 9781861347145
 
 
SB11-335 Older People and the Law.
  McDonald, Ann/ 9781861347152
 
  Following the modernising agenda in health and social care, this book describes the legal framework for working with older people. It covers the range of legal issues affecting the welfare and financial security of older people in the community and residential settings, and emphasises the empowering nature of legal knowledge.
 

 

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