Resources: Just out - A round-up of new resources

This publication is about getting service users directly involved indeveloping social work training on child poverty. It reports on aproject in which the users of family services drew on their ownexperience and worked with social work practitioners and academics todevelop training. It also highlights the importance of good social workpractice in supporting families to stay together.

Casebook: children and young people

This casebook is part of a project by the Local Government Ombudsman toimprove the way in which it deals with complaints made by, or on behalfof, young people. In particular, it focuses on those complaints that arenot supported by a parent or guardian. The casebook outlines when it isappropriate for practitioners to contact the ombudsman on behalf of achild or young person who is experiencing a problem with a localauthority.