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The National Children's Bureau have just published a new book entitled 'Building Resilience in Families Under Stress' which explains how child welfare professionals can help support parenting in families affected by both parental mental health problems and / or parental substance misuse. As well as examining current service responses, the book also:
The publication cost £20.00 (£16.00 for NCB members) and is particularly relevant to professionals who are directly or indirectly involved in providing statutory or voluntary services to family members affected by parental mental health problems, substance misuse or alcohol misuse. You can order the book via any of the following contact details:
Email: ncb@centralbooks.com
Telephone 0845 458 9910
Fax 0845 458 9912
NCB, c/o Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN
For feedback and presentaions from the National Conference 2009.
School Absenteeism and the Implementation of Truancy-Related Penalty Notices This paper derives from the author's recent research into disadvantaged children's access to compulsory education in England.
Examining the national attendance strategies and practice, the author interrogates the current trend towards a more punitive approach to addressing the problem of school absenteeism while debating the issue of irresponsible parents in terms of parental responsibility.
Using the data collected from 150 Local Education Authorities and a survey among Education Welfare managers, the research study reported in this paper measures the association between authorities' readiness to issue penalty notices and the change made in pupils' absence rates between 2004 and 2006.
Presenting the findings of the research study, the author argues that truancy is a complex social and historical issue and that poor parenting is itself a symptom of several underlying social problems and the circle of disadvantage. Therefore, the findings of the study call for more efforts and measures to address the underlying social problems and to break the circle of disadvantage of the families that most truanting children come from.
The first document highlights the reality of the case work undertaken by EWO's.
The second document covers an audit of the needs of 197 children.
The third report and recommendations are available to members only in the Members Area.
This is a comprehensive online resource aimed at Social Workers and people in a similar position working with children and young people. The website provides practical information broken down in to highly targeted bite sized chunks. Problems are described in layman's language, defined with topics to think about, sensible suggestions to consider, what not to do's and when to consider more specialist help. Once you have accessed the site, it is highly possible that you may subsequently decide to re-visit it again to uncover further helpful advice on how to respond helpfully to children and young people's troubling behaviour, build up their self-esteem and promote their positive mental well-being.
The content has benefited from the feedback of many professionals in the field and is constantly evolving as more feedback is received.
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 comes into effect in Autumn 2008 and the Government is committed to do all it can, working with schools, local authorities and communities, to tackle the issue of forced marriage which is a form of child abuse.
New materials have just been developed in consultation with schools, young people, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations, and these have been designed to be eye-catching and appealing to young people, with content that's appropriate to them.
The DCSF are sending copies out to every secondary school and Ministers are encouraging staff to use these materials in order to both raise awareness of this important child protection issue and inform young people of sources of support.
For access to the latest materials and more information regarding forced marriage and tackling "honour" based violence in communities visit the website Every Child Matters.
The Foreign Office is also conducting a consultation exercise on the issue of forced marriage.
Opinion Survey... Make your view count...The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) are about to undertake an incremental review of the Learning, Development and Support Services (LDSS) National Occupational Standards (NOS). The standards are aimed at the LDSS family which include:- more.
A fresh new look at Education Supervision Orders (funded by the Paul Hamlyn
Foundation), with the latest ideas in best practice and guidance, including real life case studies.
The Report by the National Children's Bureau aims to increase the capacity of local authorities to deliver education supervision orders.
For more information and to download a copy of the ESO report.
'Are you analysing figures or data - thinking about how things compare to others and how you might present your findings in the most effective way? Sometimes it can even be difficult to get your head around all the various statistical interpretations - do I use the mean, median or mode, and what on earth is polarity?
'The following, simple to use, tool is designed to help practitioners make their data work better for them. It use practical examples to uncomplicate the different statistical aspects and includes a useful data glossary that explains all the different meanings.'
Statistics Guide (555KB).
Customised local neighbourhood statistics from the Office of National Statistics.
New resource created by Roger Thompson focusing on Behaviour and Attendance
Beatbullying has recently relaunched its main website
www.beatbullying.org.
In addition there is also a young people's site at www.bbclic.com.
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Regrettably there are insufficient funds to continue with the activity fund at the moment.
NASWE national council is exploring ways to rectify this situation by seeking alternative funding streams.
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