‘Little Miracles’ by Giselle Green
What parents do when a child goes missing…
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‘Family Cookbook’ by Annabel Karmel
Something for all the family to get their teeth into
‘Care and Education in Early Childhood’ by Audrey Curtis and Maureen O’Hagan
– A student’s guide to theory and practice
‘Advanced Early Years’ by Iain Macleod-Brudenell and Janet Kay
A comprehensive text book for advanced early years students
‘Residential Care – A Positive Future’ Edited by Terry Philpott
The impact of the Wagner Report over the last two decades
‘Practical EYFS Handbook’ by Penny Tassoni
A textbook for students geared to current UK systems
First Aid Manual
The UK’s only fully authorised guide
‘Inclusion, Equality and Diversity in Working with Children’ by S. Griffin
Inclusion, Equality and Diversity in Working with Children, in the ‘Professional Development’ series, aims to arm practitioners who work with children with a one-stop resource for recognising and combating exclusion and discrimination of all kinds. As such it is very comprehensive and contains excellent definitions of key terms, such as ‘stereotype’ and ‘self esteem’, as … Read more
Young Children and Racial Justice by Jane Lane
Taking action for equality in the early years – understanding the past, thinking about the present, planning for the future by Jane Lane
Best Practice in Social Work: Critical Perspectives by K. Jones, B. Cooper, and H. Ferguson
Best Practice in Social Work: Critical Perspectives sets out to explore best practice in social work across a range of services. A fundamental position of the writing is the critical best practice. The focus is on what are considered the best approaches to ‘real events and cases’ and detailed examples of interventions are explored with … Read more
WOW! The visual encyclopedia of everything by Kim Bryan et al.
The cover says it all. For a start Wow!: The Visual Encyclopedia of Everything (Dk Reference) feels chunky and weighty. In big indented silver letters there is the title, WOW! Surrounding it, there are 2560* images of all sorts of things, telling you that the book has a lot of subject matter inside the covers.What … Read more
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Today : A Handbook. Edited by C. Jackson, K. Hill and P. Lavis
As Sir Al Aynsley-Green, Children’s Commissioner for England, says in his foreword, “I want to see … a society that recognises the importance and centrality of children’s mental health to all aspects of their current and future lives”. The book is structured in five parts: Part I: Mental health, policies and service structures; Part II: … Read more