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Tuesday, January 2, 2018

| CYP Now

Practitioners identify issues vulnerable families may face and work collaboratively to resolve them.

Helping Birmingham Families Early: The 'Signs of Safety and Wellbeing' Practice Framework

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

| CYP Now

The authors discuss the Signs of Safety and Wellbeing framework that has been introduced into Birmingham's early help services. This paper discusses the theoretical basis of Signs of Safety and how and why it is being used in Birmingham.

School-Home Support

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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Practitioners work with families to address the root causes of poor school attendance and behaviour.

Referrals and Child Protection in England: One in Five Children Referred to Children's Services and One in Nineteen Investigated before the Age of Five

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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This quantitative study focuses on the high proportion of children referred to children's services and the increasing use of statutory interventions.

Shine, Hudson Children's Centre

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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Children's centre develops 10-week programme for new mums with poor mental health or emotional wellbeing.

The Effectiveness of the Incredible Years Pre-school Parenting Programme in the United Kingdom: a Pragmatic Randomised Trial

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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The authors discuss the findings of an evaluation of the Incredible Years (IY) programme delivered to parents of three and four year olds attending universal early years provision at risk of developing a conduct disorder.

Juvenile Firesetters Intervention Scheme

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

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Targeted, individually-tailored one-to-one programme aims to stop under-18s playing with fire or firesetting.

International Focus: SOS Children's Villages, Finland

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

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Finland has a population of 5.5 million. Despite being a relatively wealthy country - its per capita output is equivalent to France - it has an unemployment rate of nearly 10 per cent and youth unemployment is double that level. Nearly one million Finns earn too little to cover their costs of living, with one in 10 children having welfare needs.

How intervention helps families to turn a corner

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

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Targeted intervention programme helps families to change their lives and improve outcomes for children with child in need plans.

Legal Update: How to tackle repeat removals

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

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Kamena Dorling, head of policy and programmes at Coram Children's Legal Centre, explores the need to address the problems of parents who lose successive children in repeat care proceedings.

Brighter Futures, Ealing Council

Thursday, May 4, 2017

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Pilot aimed to prevent placement and family breakdown among older children in and on the edge of care by developing social workers' skills to build trusting, consistent relationships with them.

Leeds City Council

Thursday, May 4, 2017

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Restorative practice crucial to Leeds children's services' journey from Ofsted "inadequate" to best practice status.

Special Report: Social Work With Children and Families

Thursday, May 4, 2017

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Social workers are among the most important people in the lives of vulnerable children, so a number of initiatives are aimed at re-energising a profession dogged by high caseloads and recruitment difficulties.

Parental conflict: the impact for children and how to resolve it

Thursday, May 4, 2017

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Academic whose research underpins new government drive to resolve parental conflict explains how policy can help councils develop support programmes that mitigate the damage it causes to children's wellbeing.

Exploring Communication Between Social Workers, Children and Young People

Thursday, May 4, 2017

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This paper discusses findings from the ethnographic phase of The Talking and Listening to Children (TLC) project, which took place between 2013 and 2015 and explored how social workers communicate with children.

Special Report: Preventing care proceedings - Research evidence

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

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The research section for this special report is based on a selection of academic studies which have been explored and summarised by Research in Practice (www.rip.org.uk), part of the Dartington Hall Trust.

The Team Around the Relationship, Brighton & Hove

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

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Brighton & Hove City Council's relationship-based practice model of children's social work.

Action for Children - Multisystemic therapy, Manchester

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

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Intensive, home-based programme supporting young people on the edge of care, and their families.

The policy context on preventing care proceedings

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

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In the face of tightening council budgets and rising demand for children's social care services, policymakers and local leaders have for the past few years been devising ways to reduce children's services' use of care proceedings.

Early FDAC (Families Do Achieve Change)

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

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Pre-proceedings version of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court, a problem-solving form of care proceedings for the children of substance-misusing parents.

How parents take action to end cycle of care

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

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Programme of support for parents that have had children taken into care helps reduce the chance of further pregnancies and proceedings.

Legal Update: FDAC works to keep families united