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Professional coaches will support young people to appreciate their own strengths

Analysis 5 January 2021

Coaching for a crime-free life

Lack of face-to-face contact has made it difficult for staff to assess the risks to children. Picture: ©NSPCC. Photo by Tom Hull. Posed by models. NSPCC practitioner is Dannie Adcock-Habib

Analysis 5 January 2021

Practitioners reflect on lockdown problems

“Closed childcare clusters” have been developed where families share home schooling. Picture: Wavebreakmediamicro/Adobe Stock

Analysis 5 January 2021

Children’s professionals develop local projects to aid Covid recovery

Qualified workers play a crucial role in young children’s long-term attainment. Picture: Micromonkey/Adobe Stock

Analysis 5 January 2021

Upgrading early years degrees

Carey Oppenheim, early childhood lead, and Jordan Rehill, researcher, Nuffield Foundation

Analysis 5 January 2021

The changing needs of childhood

The book hopes to provide information to ensure care leavers are fully supported. Picture: Bettys Photos/Adobe Stock

Analysis 5 January 2021

Four key leaving care challenges

Morley: “Face-to-face provision will remain central”

Features 5 January 2021

Interview: Kathryn Morley, OnSide chief executive

The adoption sector has become a leader in embedding anti-discriminatory approaches to tackle racism, sexism and homophobia across training, policy and practice. Picture: First 4 Adoption

Features 5 January 2021

Four decades of adoption & fostering

Professionals are required to consider whether wider environmental factors pose a threat to children’s safety. Picture: Hakase420/Adobe Stock

Other 5 January 2021

Contextual Safeguarding: Policy context

Assessments focused on individual behaviours rather than addressing contexts. Picture: Hanna/Adobe Stock

Research 5 January 2021

Contextual Risk, Individualised Responses: An Assessment of Safeguarding Responses to Nine Cases of Peer-on-Peer Abuse

Studies show that practitioners must examine the relationship between the school context and the harm that occurs or is facilitated there. Picture: benschonewille/Adobe Stock

Research 5 January 2021

Keeping Children Safe? Advancing Social Care Assessments to Address Harmful Sexual Behaviour in Schools

Relocation may be an opportunity to secure a young person’s physical safety but it can pose a risk to their relational and psychological safety. Picture: Bublikhaus/Adobe Stock

Research 5 January 2021

Relocation, Relocation, Relocation: Home and School-Moves for Children Affected by Extra-Familial Risks During Adolescence

The paper asks whether it is social workers’ role to prevent and intervene in cases of abuse of children – or to work with families. Picture: Adobe Stock, posed by model

Research 5 January 2021

No Further Action: Contextualising Social Care Decisions for Children Victimised in Extra-Familial Settings

Youth Now aims to effect change in communities blighted by violence in Oldham. Picture: SakhanPhotography/Adobe Stock

Features 5 January 2021

Contextual Safeguarding tackles youth violence in Oldham

Early intervention work helps young people at risk to connect with their families. Picture: Motortion/Adobe Stock

Features 5 January 2021

Contextual Safeguarding helps Wiltshire to hone social work practice