by diviadmin | Jan 14, 2018 | Practice
I’ve never been one for resolutions, really… …but there is one I’d like to encourage everyone to make. Get the audio versions of my newer blog posts on Jonny 24/7 – here… The ultimate resolution… I do like the sense of...
by diviadmin | Dec 9, 2017 | Policy, Practice, Safeguarding
This week the BBC reported on the latest online threat to children – live streaming. Here’s the deal… Live streaming is the ability to appear live on-screen for others to see you. This can be done on any internet enabled electronic device: phone,...
by diviadmin | Nov 23, 2017 | Adoption, Practice
What do foster carers want? After responding in-depth to a previous post, I asked Melody Barrow to write her wish list – the things that she and her fellow foster carers want to say to other professionals, particularly to social workers. Get the audio versions...
by diviadmin | Oct 29, 2017 | Child Devmt, Parenting, Practice, Youth Justice
Not many YOTs have parenting workers these days. This is unfortunate. So I asked my friend and parenting expert Kelly Cox to summarise why parenting work has a place in youth offending teams. Here’s what she said… Why is Parenting important within Youth...
by diviadmin | Oct 16, 2017 | Practice, Safeguarding
If you work with troubled children, sooner or later they’ll tell you what’s happened to them. So why do some children struggle to give a clear story of what took place? Trauma and memory… A couple of years ago, I was first on the scene at a...
