Interview: Lynn Davis on her new book, A Practical Guide to Fostering Law

“Foster carers play an absolutely crucial role in the child care system. The vast majority of looked after children live in foster care. Carers are there at the sharp end, dealing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with all of the consequences of abuse, neglect or whatever family difficulties have led children to be looked after. Yet in spite of this, in my view foster carers are underpaid and often overlooked and under-appreciated.”

August 27, 2010Adoption and Fostering

Interview with Ellen Power – Part 5: My Top 5 Back-to-School Tips for Parents of Children with SEN

“My boys go back to school next week. I can’t believe how quickly the holidays have passed by! In addition to all of the usual preparation, next week I will be performing some extra tasks to make sure that the school year gets off to as smooth a start as possible. Here are my Top 5 Back-to-School Guerrilla Tips…”

August 26, 2010May 8, 2017Adoption and Fostering

Interview with Ellen Power – Part 4: How to create an educational system that fully meets the needs of children with SEN

“When you look at it on paper it is difficult to see why the current system for meeting the needs of children with SEN is so prone to failure. On paper it seems to work, but in practice there are some big weaknesses that lead to its failure.”

August 25, 2010Adoption and Fostering

Interview with Ellen Power – Part 3: Where does SEN fit into the academies and free schools models?

“I have had email correspondence with our children’s school and government on this issue, and I have to say that they are all very vague about how SEN will be managed in academies and free schools.”

August 24, 2010Adoption and Fostering

Interview with Ellen Power – Part 2: Picking your battles in the fight to have your child’s special educational needs met

“Prior to our children having statements, we had to fight for everything each time a problem arose, mostly without success…It was extremely labour-intensive.”

August 23, 2010Adoption and Fostering

Interview with Ellen Power – Part 1: My Transformation from mild mannered parent to…GUERRILLA MUM!

“Although I could hardly believe it, it began to dawn on me that although I wanted my children to have more help at school, the school did not want to do anything ‘extra’ for them and I could not understand why…”

August 18, 2010May 8, 2017Education

Atle Dyregrov on Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers

“There are a variety of self-help techniques that the individual can use for their own sake…In addition to individual methods, there must be systems in place to secure good follow-up for personnel involved in critical incidents or in work with traumatized children over time.”

August 12, 2010Autism

Video clips from the new Animated Introduction to Asperger Syndrome DVD!

**Winner – International Animation Award, Edinburgh Mental Health & Arts Festival 2008** Created by pioneering science and youth arts project Biomation, An Animated Introduction to…

July 22, 2010Autism

Sarita Freedman on Developing College Skills in Students with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome

“…it’s challenging for students with ASD to participate in “non-preferred” tasks. As such, parents of students who go away for college worry that their student will spend most of his time playing video games, rather than focusing on college studies. Sadly, the risk of this happening is quite high. However, students can learn strategies to manage and balance their time, provided the student receives adequate programming throughout his life.”

July 20, 2010July 4, 2017Social work

CYPNow article by JKP author Gillian Ruch: Time to put relationship building back at the heart of social work

Children & Young People Now have featured a great article from JKP author, Dr Gillian Ruch, in which she argues that a focus on improving…