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!
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Training with Jonny Matthew – sponsored by the National Working Group on Child Sexual Exploitation
11th May 2017 – Derby
For more information click here.
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We at NOTA Wales have put together another cracking one day conference.
Karl Hanson will be the keynote speaker and the theme is:
Karl is a fantastic speaker and always impresses with the latest research. Hope to see you there!
More info here.
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The Young People Count report was published by the Partnership for Young London in December.
It’s a great source of data on young people.
Enjoy! :0)
See the full report here.
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds (Macmillan, 2014)
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Title:
Talk Like TED
Subtitle:
9 Public Speaking Secrets From the World’s Top Minds
Author:
Carmine Gallo
Opinion in short: Interesting, well-organised and full of illustrations. Not short on inspiration either. Best of all it’s eminently practical. If you train, present, speak or otherwise find yourself talking to groups of people publicly, you should buy this.
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On Wednesday this week, Julie Rix published an article in The Guardian about the Enhanced Case Management approach to complex cases in Youth Justice.
The approach is underpinned by and applies our Trauma Recovery Model (TRM) to help young people engage with interventions and deal with their pasts.
Read the Guardian article here. Read the Trauma Recovery Model paper here.
Get training information on the TRM here.
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I’m a passionate believer in the value of foster care.
In fact I think it’s the Gold Standard for helping troubled kids who can’t live at home.
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So what sort of state is the nation’s fostering system currently in?
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