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    Context, Themes and Methods

    Across the range of social care, health and welfare professions, it is essential that students and practitioners engage meaningfully with the communities and service users they work with. This book offers a timely and practical guide to the methods and skills related to forming and developing such partnerships.Helping both aspiring and experienced practitioners to empower communities and service ... Read more

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  • Working with Children, Young People and Families

    A course book for Foundation Degrees

    Edited by Billie Oliver, Bob Pitt ...
    Series series Creating Integrated Services Series
    This book is essential reading for anyone studying and working in the new integrated children′s services. The Children′s Workforce Development Strategy sets out the basic skills and knowledge needed by people whose work brings them into regular contact with children, young people and their families. Built around this Common Core of Skills and Knowledge and packed with case studies and reflective ... Read more

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    Practices and perspectives

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    This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it ... Read more

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  • Effective Social Work with Children and Families

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    Social work with children and families is constantly in the headlines and social workers′ decisions are subject to ever increasing scrutiny at all levels. This aspirational book supports students and newly qualified social workers and suggests practical ways in which they might thrive, rather than just survive, in practiceWritten at a time when Social Work Reform Board and the Munro Enquiry are ... Read more

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    A Guide to Concepts and Practices

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  • Understanding Family Support

    Policy, Practice and Theory

    Understanding Family Support provides a definition of family support and a clear perspective on the role that it has in promoting the welfare of children and their families.Family support is a concept that has been used in a range of ways to describe various aspects of child welfare policy and practice. The authors argue that this weakens family support as an overarching child welfare paradigm. ... Read more

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  • Strategic Curriculum Change in Universities

    Global Trends

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    The curriculum is a live issue in universities across the world. Many stakeholders – governments, employers, professional and disciplinary groups and parents – express strong and often conflicting views about what higher education should achieve for its students.Many universities are reviewing their curricula at an institutional level, aware that they are in a competitive climate in which league ... Read more

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  • Special Educational Needs: The Key Concepts

    by Philip Garner ...
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    Exploring the complex issues that surround special educational needs (SEN) both in and out of the classroom, this reader-friendly text considers the impacts that these issues have upon the child, the parent, the teacher, and the school as a whole.Fully cross-referenced and including suggestions for further reading with each entry, areas discussed include:pupil rights and empowermentparents and ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Issues in the Early Years

    If you are a student or practitioner in the early years sector, you need to develop a rounded understanding of key issues in this fast-moving field. This new and updated edition provides a critical examination of the essential issues in early years policy and practice. With contributions from highly regarded practitioners and researchers, this book accessibly balances theory and practical concerns ... Read more

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