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  • Enhancing the Well-being of Children and Families through Effective Interventions

    International Evidence for Practice

    by Jim Wade, Arnon Bentovim, Danielle Turney, David Quinton, Kate Wilson, Karen Tanner, Ian Sinclair ...
    Services for families and children are rightfully the focus of intense scrutiny and debate, and there is a clear need to establish a knowledge of which services work well.This volume provides a comprehensive overview of research evidence from the UK and USA on the effectiveness of selected child welfare interventions. It addresses the challenges of measuring effectiveness in child welfare and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood

    International Research and Practice

    by Roxana Anghel, Rami Benbenishty, Judy Cashmore, Renate Stohler, Jan Storo, David Vincent, Jim Wade, Wolfgang Schröer, Maren Zeller, Harriet Ward, Phillip Mendes, John Pinkerton, Erik Knorth, Stefan Köngeter, Rawan Ibrahim, Thomas Gabriel, Robbie Gilligan, Maria Herczog, Ingrid Hojer, Mark Courtney, Robert Flynn, Gabriela Dima, Annick Dumaret, Jorge Fernandez del del Valle ...
    Series series Child Welfare Outcomes
    The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation.In Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood leading academics gather together the latest international research relating to the transition of young people leaving care, outlining and ... Read more

    $86.09 USD

  • Caring for Abused and Neglected Children

    Making the Right Decisions for Reunification or Long-Term Care

    by Nina Biehal, Jim Wade, Nicola Farrelly, Ian Sinclair ...
    Series series Safeguarding Children Across Services
    The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.This book examines the long-term consequences of this decision for children who entered public care for abuse or neglect. It compares the experiences and progress of children who remained in care or returned to their birth ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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    Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children

    by Ross E. Cheit ...
    In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States. The most famous case was the 1984 McMartin preschool case, but there were a number of others as well. By the latter part of the decade, the assumption was widespread that child sex abuse had become a serious problem in America. Yet within a few years, the concern about it died down considerably. The failure to convict anyone ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Scandinavian Unexceptionalism

    Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism

    by Nima Sanandaji ...
    Series series Readings in Political Economy
    This book is important to help an international audience understand the cultural peculiarities behind the Scandinavian “success story”. It is also vital that Scandinavians themselves read this book to help them understand the market reforms that are essential for a successful future. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Economics in the Twenty-First Century

    A Critical Perspective

    by Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems a little more dismal than usual as governments, social movements, and even students complain that the discipline is failing to make sense of the major economic problems of the day.In Economics in the Twenty-First Century, Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson demonstrate how today’s top young economists continue to lead ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Tia Sharp - A Family Betrayal: The True Story of how a Step-Grandfather Murdered the Young Girl Who Trusted Him.

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    On 3 August 2012, as London was gripped by the Olympics, Tia Sharp, a 12-year old schoolgirl, was reported missing from her grandmother's home in New Addington, south London. A call made by her mother, Natalie, alerted police to Tia's disappearance and so began a massive search operation to find the missing girl. Police were seconded from the Olympic village to make house-tohouse enquiries, while ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Tiny Prisoners

    Two siblings trapped in a world of abuse. One woman determined to free them

    by Maggie Hartley ...
    Series Book 4 - A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
    Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister have hardly set foot outside their own home. They have been prisoners, locked in a terrifying world of abuse, violence and neglect.Maggie soon realises that Evie and Elliot are lacking the basic life skills we all take ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • The Little Ghost Girl

    Abused, starved and neglected, little Ruth is desperate for someone to love her

    by Maggie Hartley ...
    Series Book 5 - A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
    Ruth was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. Pale, frail and withdrawn, it was clear to Maggie that Ruth had seen and experienced things that no 11-year-old should have to, that she's been conditioned to 'see no evil, speak no evil'. Ruth is in desperate need of help, but can Maggie get through to her and unlock the harrowing secret she carries?Through love ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Who Will Love Me Now?

    Neglected, unloved and rejected, can Maggie help a little girl desperate for a home to call her own?

    by Maggie Hartley ...
    Series Book 1 - A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
    The Sunday Times BestsellerAt just ten years old, Kirsty has already suffered a lifetime of heartache and suffering. Neglected by her teenage mother and taken into care, Kirsty thought she had found her forever family when she is fostered by Pat and Mike, who she comes to see as her real mum and dad. But when Pat has a heart attack and collapses in front of her, Kirsty's foster family say it's all ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Taken

    by Rosie Lewis ...
    Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate.Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother’s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie’s loving care. Rosie is supposed to help Megan find her new permanent home, but it turns out that Megan has already found her ‘forever mummy’ ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Mother From Hell

    Two Brothers, a Sadistic Mother, a Childhood Destroyed.

    by Kenneth M. Doyle, Patrick Doyle ...
    Kenneth and Patrick Doyle grew up in a family of nine children in Tullamore, Co. Offaly.Though the home was dysfunctional and all the children suffered at the hands of their parents, Kenneth and Patrick were singled out for horrific abuse at the hands of their mother.Starved, beaten and sent out to steal, their story is a catalogue of abuse. It also implicates the authorities, who had pages upon ... Read more

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