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 serious...
by diviadmin | Sep 10, 2017 | Practice, Reports, Safeguarding, Teens
When we think of the teenage years we probably don’t usually think of neglect. But here’s the truth of it… Being a teenager can be a confusing time of life… Changes to body and mind Added pressures of school and exams Trying to find your way...
by diviadmin | Aug 29, 2017 | Child Devmt, Parenting, Practice
So many interventions with troubled kids focus on behaviour. And many of them don’t work. Why is that?… It’s because the sequencing is wrong. If a bricky tried building the walls of a house before digging the foundations, it wouldn’t stand up...
