Creating hope through action: a suicide researcher’s perspective
Creating hope through action: a suicide researcher’s perspective CONTENT WARNING – suicide is a main focus of this blogpost. In honour of World Suicide Prevention…
Tag: safeguarding
Thinking critically about safeguarding young people – Dez Holmes
Work with young people facing harm is an ever-evolving area of work, where the stakes are high and where policy and practice are often developed in response to crisis, leading to reactive and defensive approaches. The book I have edited – Safeguarding Young People: Risk, rights, relationships and resilience – tries to take a step back; to create space for reflection to allow a more aspirational and evidence-informed reframing of the issues.
Someone to Safeguard: How Safeguarding Can Go Wrong
An excerpt from Chapter 6 of Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science. ‘Find me somebody to love’, a lyric from the band Queen. A lyric which…
The Child’s World, Third Edition – What’s New?
The Child’s World, Third Edition is out now. The highly anticipated follow up to 2009’s influential text and bestseller has impressed early readers, so what…
Award Winning Books for Early Years Practitioners… ?
It has been a fantastic year for our list of books for early years practitioners already, with new varied and truly insightful titles growing our…
Creative Ideas for Assessing Vulnerable Children and Families
An article by author Katie Wrench There are so many books about assessment – in social work and other fields. So why should you put…
Take a look at our new Pastoral Care and Special Educational Needs catalogue
Our education resources offer valuable guidance on important school issues such as mental health, special educational needs, autism, bullying and peer pressure, safeguarding, restorative justice,…
Take a look at our new Early Years catalogue
Our Early Years books offer valuable, jargon-free advice on a range of important issues in the field for any setting. From practical guides on positive…
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Sign up to our mailing list to receive a free copy of our new Pastoral Care and Special Educational Needs catalogue. Our resources offer valuable guidance…
Putting Black Children in the Centre of Safeguarding
It has become increasingly evident that black children and young people are facing victimisation in a context where their identities and experiences are marginalised and devalued.…