Commissioning: Parent-infant relationship services

• Management | Commissioning | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings | Social Care

Dr Karen Bateson, clinical psychologist and Wook Hamilton,...

Inspections Clinic: Multi-agency safeguarding

• Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care | Preventing Care Proceedings | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Attachment & Neglect

After a pandemic-induced hiatus, joint targeted area...

International Focus: Perinatal care, Australia

• Health | Young parents | Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect

The cost to the UK of perinatal mental health difficulties...

Digital Innovation in Social Care: Special Report

• Social Care | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings

The pandemic has required children’s social care to embrace...

Enhanced trauma-informed approach helps practitioners build better relationships with homeless young people

• Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Homelessness charity in West Midlands uses...

Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings | Youth Offending | Leaving Care | Adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative...

Triple P helps Nottingham expand support for families

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

Nottingham City Council says the adoption of Triple P has...

Parenting Programmes: Special Report

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

Parenting programmes aim to give parents the insights and...

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Special Report

• Children's Services | Early help | Health | Mental health | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings

Research has shown that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)...

Learning Through Play, USA

• Education | Early Years | Play | Early years education | Social Care | Attachment & Neglect | Play

Experiencing abuse or neglect can hinder the development of...

Joint targeted area inspections: Inspections clinic

• Children's Services | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Ofsted | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Attachment & Neglect

Joint targeted area inspections began in 2016 with the aim...

First 1,001 Days: Special Report

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Amid deep cuts to early years support, policymakers and...

Special Report: Early Childhood Development

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect | Play

Policymakers and practitioners are boosting support for...

Baby P death 10 years on: the case's lasting impact on child protection

• Social Care | Attachment & Neglect

The death in 2007 of Peter Connelly resulted in a media...

Relationships in the early years

• Early years education | Early help | Families/Parenting | Attachment & Neglect

Advice on commissioning evidence-based parenting...

Childhood trauma and offending

• Social Care | Crime prevention | Youth Offending Teams | Attachment & Neglect

How improving awareness of childhood trauma can help...

Lessons from serious case reviews: Childhood neglect

• Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

The NSPCC has analysed evidence from serious case reviews to...

Attachment training for teachers

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Adoption UK is leading a campaign to boost schools'...

Cared-for learning

• Education | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Attachment & Neglect | Foster Care

Emily Rogers looks at some innovative methods to raise the...

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the...

Triumph over trauma

• Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Family Futures offers intensive, long-term therapeutic help...

Strong parent attachments underpin drive to prevent baby deaths

• Social Care | Attachment & Neglect

Twenty babies on average die each year because of abuse and...

Family Links nurtures parents’ emotional skills

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

Family Links’ Nurturing Programme aims to strengthen family...

Reorganisation enhances Westminster early help support

• Children's Services | Early help | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

Inner London council turns children’s centres into family...

Prospective adopters use technology to see the reality of childhood trauma

• Fostering and adoption | Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

Virtual reality technology used to improve understanding of...

How Baby Steps helps put new parents on a firm footing

• Families/Parenting | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

NSPCC programme sees new parents who may be less likely to...

Scheme helps new parents take the leap to get support

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Service specialises in parent-infant psychotherapy.

Peer-support schemes build mothers' confidence

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Engages vulnerable mothers in peer support programmes.

Liverpool service enhances parent-child attachment

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Works with parents pre and postnatal.

Evidence and Impact: Preventing child neglect

• Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

The latest in a series of articles about emerging...

Lessons from Serious Case Reviews: Parental substance misuse

• Drugs and alcohol | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

The NSPCC has analysed evidence from serious case reviews to...

Lifelong Links

• Attachment & Neglect | Foster Care

Detailed searches are carried out to identify extended...

Mulberry Bush Oxfordshire (MBOX) Teaching School

• Education | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Attachment & Neglect | Residential Children's Care

Works with education settings to adopt a "psychodynamic"...

Parents on the Ball

• Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Programme revolving around local football clubs to boost...

AdCAMHS, East Sussex

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Therapeutic programme that supports adopted children and...

New Orleans Intervention Model

• Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Programme that emphasises young children's secure attachment...

Neglect in early years can cause lasting brain damage

• Health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect | Foster Care

How neural frameworks that usually develop in young children...

The Impact on Child Outcomes of Providing a Parenting Intervention Alongside Treatment for Post-natal Depression

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Post-natal depression (PND) is estimated to affect 10-15 per...

Supporting Parents and Infants Through the Healthy Child Programme

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

This is a comprehensive review of the latest evidence of...

The Impact of Neglect on Brain Development

• Early Years | Attachment & Neglect

Johanna Bick and Charles A. Nelson's 2017 paper provides a...

Analysing Repeated Referrals to Children's Services in England

• Children's Services | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings

This study set out to discover the factors behind children...

Special Report: Attachment and Neglect - Research Evidence

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect