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  • Vulnerable Children and the Law

    International Evidence for Improving Child Welfare, Child Protection and Children's Rights

    by Nicky Stanley, Terri Libesman, Greg Kelly, Lisa Young, Patrick O'Leary, Helen Richardon Foster, Linda Moore, Una Convery0, Christine Beddoe1, Jackie Turton2, Suzanne Oliver3, Goos Cardol4, Chaitali Das5, Gladis Molina6, Shelly Whitman7, James Reid8, Meredith Kiraly9, Cathy Humphreys0, Jason Squire1, Pam Miller2, Robert H. George3, Deena Haydon4, Gill Thomson5, Rawiri Taonui6 ...
    Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.This book takes an international perspective on child welfare, examining how global and national frameworks can be adapted to address the rights and best ... Read more

    $99.19 USD

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  • Wednesday's Child

    One year in the life of an Irish child protection worker

    by Shane Dunphy ...
    Shane Dunphy was involved in social care for fifteen years. This book is a distillation of some of the cases he encountered in that time into a single, year-long narrative. In spite of the narrative's compression, and allowing for the necessary change of identifying details, everything in this book is true. And what the truth reveals! Here are the cases of three dysfunctional families, struggling ... Read more

    $3.74 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The High-Conflict Custody Battle

    Protect Yourself and Your Kids from a Toxic Divorce, False Accusations, and Parental Alienation

    by Amy J. L. Baker, PhD, J. Michael Bone, PhD, Brian Ludmer, BComm, LLB ...
    Is your ex-spouse trying to gain custody of your kids? Has he or she launched a campaign to make you look like a bad parent, both in the eyes of your children and the law? You aren’t alone. Unfortunately, high-conflict custody battles are all-too-common in today’s world. So how can you arm yourself with the mental and legal resources needed to survive this difficult time and keep your kids safe?In ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

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  • Taken

    The Inspirational True Story Of One Mother's Epic Win Against Social Services

    by Sue O'Callaghan ...
    SHE FOUGHT THE LAW, AND THE LAW LOSTSue O’Callaghan was one of us. Just an ordinary mum, living an ordinary life, in a nice house with her husband and family. Ordinary, that is, until the day her husband took the children for a walk and never came home.Like any mother, she was worried: Had her family been in a terrible accident? Had they been the victims of a crime? Little did Sue know that her ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in School

    A Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties in Children Aged 5-11

    by Helen Worrall, Sian Templeton, Netty Roberts, Ann Frost, Eleanor Durrant, Jane Fain, Cathy Mills, Kim S. Golding ...
    Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and to provide appropriate help.This easy-to-use tool provides an observation checklist which enables staff to identify behavioural patterns in children with social and emotional difficulties, analyse the ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Creating Person-Centred Organisations

    Strategies and Tools for Managing Change in Health, Social Care and the Voluntary Sector

    by Stephen Stirk, Helen Sanderson ...
    Person-centred thinking and planning are approaches that enable people using social care and health services to plan their future, and use a personal budget to commission personalised services.Creating Person-Centred Organisations is a guide for organisations who want to deliver personalised services. Key issues covered include attending to the vision, strategy and business planning of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Take Care, Son

    The Story of My Dad and his Dementia

    by Tony Husband ...
    'Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started?'When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different form of forgetting'. But it was just the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from the family he loved.This is the touching, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Poverty Industry

    The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens

    by Daniel L Hatcher ...
    How funds for the needy are siphoned off for profit: "A distressing picture of how states routinely defraud taxpayers of millions of federal dollars." ― Boston ReviewGovernment aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Law and Childhood Studies

    Current Legal Issues Volume 14

    Edited by Michael Freeman ...
    Series series Current Legal Issues
    Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Authentic Relationships in Group Care for Infants and Toddlers – Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) Principles into Practice

    by Stephanie Petrie, Sue Owen ...
    Underpinned by substantive research on meeting the developmental and attachment needs of infants, this book offers constructive advice on how to encourage curiosity, confidence and emotional security in young children. Based on a philosophy of respect and sensitive observation of infants, it is appropriate for use in Sure Start programmes. The contributors offer a model that supports children's ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Managing Projects in Health and Social Care

    by Vivien Martin ...
    Managing Projects in Health and Social Care is designed for anyone who is asked to manage a public services project but who lacks the experience or training to feel confident in this role. The book shows how to use project management techniques to ensure that your project will be successful. The key dimensions discussed are:* budget* time* feasibility* planning / scheduling* implementation* ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Family Support: Prevention, Early Intervention and Early Help

    by Nick Frost, Shaheen Abbott, Tracey Race ...
    Series series Social Work in Theory and Practice
    Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people. Drawing on contemporary thinking and research, the book aims to make a contribution to current debates about how we can best support families in need.Underpinning the book is an analysis of how family support is changing, having moved from ‘prevention’ through to contemporary ... Read more

    $24.00 USD