CYP Now - Resources: Review - Putting family support on the agenda

Family Support as Reflective Practice is packed with 18 chapters of approaches to family support. When I first picked it up, I thought: "Oh no, not another edited collection of how well 'it' works around the world but of little relevance to the United Kingdom."

But on reading it, I was fascinated and couldn't put it down. In fact, Ithink that everyone who works with or develops policy about children andfamilies should read it.

The collection starts with a chapter by the editors in which theyprovide a means of clarifying and conceptualising what is meant byfamily support.

This is particularly helpful given that family support in the UK can beused by the Government to mean benefits, for instance, or by youthjustice to mean parenting classes.

The book then includes chapters about using the school as a base forfamily support services (Australia), community capacity (USA), localgovernment (Denmark), empowering practitioners (UK) and a comparativeperspective from Ireland.

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