by Jonny Matthew | Jun 19, 2023 | Blog, Practice, Safeguarding, Uncategorised, Youth Justice
We’ve all been in practice situations where we’ve felt exposed, at risk. Dealing with very troubled children and families means this is going to happen. It’s inevitable, sooner or later. Risky Practice… It’s not that we set out to take...
by Jonny Matthew | Feb 4, 2022 | Blog, Youth Justice
It struck me today – not for the first time – that trauma has a nasty habit of reproducing itself. Or rather the behaviour that springs from trauma and the systems that respond to it often seem to compound the problem. An example… Trauma 1 HISTORY:...
by Jonny Matthew | Jul 24, 2018 | Reports, SHB/CSE
The Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse has published it’s “Key Messages’ paper on children and young people displaying HSB. It’s a succinct and useful, zoomed out summary of the state of play on HSB in young people – a good first stop for someone with an...
by diviadmin | Jul 18, 2017 | Youth Justice
On the 18th July 2017 the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, published his annual report for the period 2016-17. Here’s what it said… Get the audio versions of my newer posts on ‘Jonny 24/7’ – here… This report makes grim...
by diviadmin | Jun 18, 2017 | Policy, Reports, Sexual Abuse, SHB/CSE, Teens
Sharing content online and across social networks is easy! No-one knows this better than young people – they are the digital generation. The government has now published some guidance to help young people understand the dangers of indecent images… Instant...