“A Bad Home is Better than a Good Institution”
Is it? Time for some careful thinking
Is it? Time for some careful thinking
The first report to take the views of children in care seriously
Exploding the myths.
Since the late 1980s I have spent a large portion of my professional life training and raising awareness of child protection and of the importance of the prevention of harm and abuse. It was quite traumatic for the groups of individuals who were learning about this for the first time. It was also testing for … Read more
A sort of updated Oliver Twist – gripping for adults and teenagers alike
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
The messages that records give – and fail to give
Any further responses to this moving book?
The impact of long-term neglect is underestimated by social workers.
The need to check for abusers
Letting people express themselves in their own time and in their own ways
The family law legislation which is currently in force in Australia, the UK, the USA and Canada is proving to be having disastrous consequences for the children of those countries and are often leading to serious breaches and violations of their rights under international conventions. The legislation is largely framed around the rights of parents … Read more