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This month, the Children’s Commissioner for Wales published her report into a consultation with children about bullying.
The report is called, “Sam’s Story” and contains the views of 2000 children.
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In November 2016 the Children’s Society published its Troubled Teens report (I missed it back then! :0)
It’s the result of a study into the causes, extent and impact of neglect for teenagers.
I’ll be summarising the report in a blog post shortly, but in the meantime you can download it yourself here.
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The NSPCC have published their annual statistical report into child protection – How Safe Are Our Children? 2017
I love this report – it’s a brilliant source of information, as well as giving the broad UK-wide picture of where things stand in child protection.
“Attachment is a small person, learning to be a person, from a big person.”
Sharing content online and across social networks is easy!
No-one knows this better than young people – they are the digital generation.
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The government has now published some guidance to help young people understand the dangers of indecent images…
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My Name is Leon (Penguin, 2017)
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Title:
My Name is Leon
Author:
Kit de Waal
Opinion in short:
This one is a beauty.
It’s about the journey of an 8 year old boy into foster care. It’s both a moving and uplifting book. It might be about “work stuff” for many of us – but it reinforces all the reasons why we do the job – to help troubled kids get through tough stuff!
I’ve been training a lot on the Trauma Recovery Model recently and frequently get asked for further reading and pointers to good books…
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So I thought I’d put together a quick guide to some of the main ones so that folks can easily get through to them for a nosey – and buy them if you wish.*
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Following our recent mini-series on handing disclosures, reader and social worker Ben Tomlinson shared the findings of his research into the involvement of children in decision-making.
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Over to you, Ben:
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Today the Welsh Government published the evaluation of the Enhanced Case Management approach.
This is the application of our Trauma Recovery Model to the complex Youth Justice cases.
To get the full details from the Welsh Government website click here.
Full report – here. Summary report – here.
Enjoy!
