There can be a lack of understanding of the vulnerable situation of children with disabilities and their families, even among professional caregivers whose mission is to protect the health and wellbeing of these children.
Originally published in 1980 when about a third of all British children found to be in need of statutory care were living at home 'on trial' with parents or relatives.
Das Erkenntnisinteresse der qualitativen Forschungsarbeit liegt im Praxisfeld der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe und fokussiert sich dort auf den Bereich der Hilfen zur Erziehung.
***Winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness******Winner of an RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction***'Part memoir, part howl of fury' GUARDIAN'Enrich[es] our impoverished sociological imagination' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Raw and compelling' FINANCIAL TIMES'Shows the human cost of a genuinely Kafka-esque bureaucratic system' NEW STATESMANAt once a powerful memoir, unflinching polemic and probing investigation into modern homelessness in the UK, by award-winning investigative journalist Daniel LavelleDaniel Lavelle left care at the age of nineteen, and experienced homelessness for the first time not long after.
Useful for newcomers to the children's library staff as well as longtime children's librarians, the second edition of this popular handbook provides easy-to-follow instructions to make innovations in children's library materials work for you.
This book offers a unique combination of an in-depth examination of attachment, a refined and tested model of Needs Assessment and Therapeutic Treatment plans and applies it to specific contexts including those of children in residential/foster care, young offenders, and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.
Beginning this year, federal payment recipients will receive their government benefits through electronic funds transfer (EFT)-- what most of us call direct deposit.
This sensitive guide for carers and professionals working with children and young people explains the serious issues of sexual content and harm that children face online.
This book offers a unique combination of an in-depth examination of attachment, a refined and tested model of Needs Assessment and Therapeutic Treatment plans and applies it to specific contexts including those of children in residential/foster care, young offenders, and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors.
How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt's the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the state agency with the power to take their children away.
This sensitive guide for carers and professionals working with children and young people explains the serious issues of sexual content and harm that children face online.
This book focuses on projects using child indicators outside of a research context and provides a user-friendly set of materials to help professionals or organizations start and sustain high-quality child indicator projects.
Originally published in 1980 when about a third of all British children found to be in need of statutory care were living at home 'on trial' with parents or relatives.
Across 30 chapters, a team of experienced teachers and practitioners introduce the fundamental professional issues concerning children, young people and their families in the 21st century.
This important text will provide a critical analysis of contemporary developments in child care policy under New Labour and the resulting policy and practice implications.
The terms 'wellbeing', 'empowerment' and 'agency' are common parlance in policy and practice with children, young people and families (CYPF), yet are often misused or not fully understood.
With an emphasis on professional expectations, values and practice skills such as building trust, listening and advocacy, this textbook helps enable social workers base their practice with children and young people on a truly child-centred model.
Die „Fallsammlung und Arbeitshilfen für Soziale Arbeit und Recht“, nunmehr ebenfalls in dritter Auflage erhältlich, sind die sinnvolle Ergänzung zum Lehrbuch „Soziale Arbeit und Recht“.
This volume discusses the various challenges faced by children in India from different perspectives such as education, psychology, and sociology during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social protection systems are intended to support households in financial difficulties, a role that has been underlined during the recent Great Recession in many countries around the world.
Die Pflegekinderhilfe ist ein expandierendes Arbeitsfeld: Im Jugendamt und bei Pflegekinderdiensten freier Träger, bei Vormundschaften, Gutachten und Familiengerichten sind Fachkräfte mit zentralen Fragen der Pflegekinderhilfe befasst.
This wide-ranging and accessible survey of poverty in America examines every important facet of the issue, from historical and socioeconomic contributors to poverty to programs, policies, and ideas crafted to reduce income inequality and poverty across the USA.
¿Cómo es habitar Buenos Aires en lo que va del siglo XXI, en especial para sectores populares que no siempre tienen asegurado el acceso a una vivienda en condiciones ambientales sanas?
Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that the nation made in raising the nutrition, hygiene, health and education standards of its children.
Das Handbuch ist zu einem Standardwerk für Theorie und Praxis der Erziehungshilfe geworden und hat als Lehrbuch Eingang gefunden in Ausbildung und Studium für sozialpädagogische Berufe.
This review of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in twenty OECD countries describes the social, economic, conceptual and research factors that influence early childhood policy.
The Swedish Working Life Fund — a temporary organization functioning from 1990 to 1995 — distributed 10 billion Swedish crowns for workplace development and initiated 25,000 projects.
