‘Leadership and Management of Services for Children and Young People’ by Connors, Harrison and Maclean
For reading, discussion or with a view to a qualification
Reviews
‘Protecting Children and Young People from Harm and Abuse – Recognition and Response’ by Rita Hannah Langton and Siobhan Maclean
Protecting Children and Young People from Harm and Abuse: Recognition and Response is aimed at all professional students training to work with children and young people to enhance their skills in recognising and acting on suspicion or evidence of abuse or harm. As such it can be used as a training manual, covering the National … Read more
‘Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917’ by Roy Parker
Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 contains 354 pages of painstakingly researched material (including 60 pages of notes, references etc.), but if that description makes you think that this must be a dry and dusty academic tome, think again. The story it tells is harrowing, and it has a cast of 80,000, … Read more
‘The God Squad’ by Paddy Doyle
A classic – frightening and moving: the inside story about institutional life in Ireland
‘Well-Being from Birth’ by Dr Rosemary Roberts
Covering both theory and practice
‘How Nurture Protects Children’ by Jim Rose
Better than bureaucracy
‘Nautical Training Ships: An Illustrated History’ by Phil Carradice
An important part of child care history which helped boys in need play a man’s role
‘Leadership in Children’s Services’ by Siobhan Maclean and Mark Shiner
Understanding the policy framework
‘From Birth to Eighteen Years: Children and the Law’ by Siobhan Maclean, Iain Maclean and Mark Shiner
A clear textbook about what is on the cover
‘What about the Children? How to help children survive separation and divorce’ by Julie Lynn Evans
How to help children survive separation and divorce
‘Challenges for Child and Youth Care: A German-Israeli Dialogue’ Edited by Emmanuel Grupper, Josef Koch and Friedhelm Peters
This collection of papers from a two year German-Israeli project offers an insight into the development of social pedagogy and a variety of ways of working with children and young people which will repay study by those seeking to take child care forward. Some of the papers were clearly written for the exchange and a … Read more
‘Living with Children’ by Dr Keith J. White
A combination of theory and practice which challenges readers to think