Related Links
Below are a collection of downloads and links which we hope you find interesting and useful.
The Child Trauma Academy
Dr B Perry’s work on child trauma is world famous. This site offers free online courses, ideal material for anyone working with children.
N.C.B.
The National Children’s Bureau
Residential Child Care Network
This site is a must for U.K. residential child care workers. It offers the opportunity to find out what is happening in the sector and to ‘meet’ and share views and opinions.
Community Care
A social care magazine and web site for up to date news in the sector
Children & Young People Now
An excellent magazine and web site with news, views, big issues on Children & Young People Now. It does what it says on the tin!
Children’s Workforce Development Council
The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) aspires to lead change so that the thousands of people and volunteers working with children and young people across England are able to do the best job they possibly can.
OFSTED
OFSTED
‘Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills’
Their task, to inspect and regulate to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages.
Good Enough Caring
Quotation from this interesting and informative site:
‘goodenoughcaring.com is an arena for the discussion of issues of interest to parents, foster parents, residential child care workers, counsellors, youth support workers, social workers, teachers, mentors, social pedagogues, educators and to young people who are, and adults who have been, in care. If you are interested in, or involved in the care, upbringing and education of children and young people or in the nurturing of children and young people who are unable to live with their own families goodenoughcaring.com is a site for you.’
Children Webmag
A great site for residential child care, with quality articles, reports of events and book reviews.
Quotation: 'The primary aim of Children Webmag is to foster high standards of child care by informing those who work with children and young people, encouraging them to share ideas, to think, to learn, to develop new approaches and working methods, to research, to read and to enjoy the work.'
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) website
An excellent source of scientific journal articles which report research on foster care in the U.S.A.
Every Child Matters
This ‘Department for children, schools and families’ site is still there! (Sept 2010) and is a useful source for official documents relating to ‘Every Child Matters.’
The Department for Education
For Department of Education headlines, news links, official reports and more.
The International Association for the Study of Attachment (IASA)
The International Association for the Study of Attachment believe that understanding the strategies that people use to organise their current behaviour can improve the way we care for troubled people.
Links to resources, video clips of Mary Ainsworth, newsletter and much more.
Give me a chance
Be fair to a child in care.
Learn about the experience of being part of the care system in Scotland.
The Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care
The Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care (SIRCC) They act as a catalyst to influence and improve the quality of care and outcomes for children and young people living in residential care. * Providing learning and development opportunities * Supporting organisational development and workforce planning * Establishing a sound evidence base which incorporates the views and experience of young people * Their activities respect and value children and young people and the workers caring for them in residential establishments.
Social Care Association
The SCA promote good practice in social care, developing ideas from practitioners about how they do their job and where it works best. They share these ideas in the practice guides that are available to members.
All residential care staff should join! Members get advice and legal protection if they have problems with either their employer or their registering body.
NICE
Guidance on looked after children
DEMOS
Click the link to download the report 'In Loco Parentis'
This important report by C. Hannon and her colleagues compared a stable care journey with an unstable one and found the average additional cost of the latter to be £32,770.37 per child, per year.
Another important report from Demos is 'Building Character' Click to download.
PDF Downloads
The Untouchables
The Politics of children in public care (Aug 2009)
Hot Topic
Are Child Care Professionals and Teachers doing their jobs?
Article from Social Caring March 2006
Love resurrection
'Love resurrection' View point on NICE/SCIE guidance on Promoting the quality of life of looked after children.
Healing Emotionally Traumatised Children Through Psychologically Informed Parenting
Download a brochure which outlines our model of professional child care.
Fostering
Download a brochure which outlines our work with Foster Parents
Accredited Services
The Following Services has achieved the Pillars of Parenting Accreditation:
Halliwell Homes
A specialist residential care provider for children and young people. The homes offer small unit accommodation for five placements of young boys and girls 8 –16 years on referral. Young people are referred to us because of their complex emotional and behavioural difficulties (CAMHS levels 3-4). Whilst short-term placements are accepted the practice model used “Pillars of Parenting” is most suited to medium to long-term placements offering as it does comprehensive psychological support and recovery.
Referrals: Tel: 01706 214 123
Out of office hours:
Tel: 07736 100616
Email: contact@halliwellhomes.co.uk
Focus Residential Care Services
Established by qualified social workers with over twenty years experience of working with young people who display challenging behaviour, Focus works with young people who are unable to live within their own or substitute families at the point of admission. They offer a structured and supportive residential setting, giving young people the opportunity to reflect on their past, come to terms with their current situation and to make positive plans for the future.
Referrals:
01582 471854 (24 hours)
Five Rivers Child Care Ltd
Five Rivers is a leading independent Social Enterprise that works with children who are in need of specialist care throughout the U.K.
They were established in 1989 to provide a secure environment with as much normality as possible for young people who have experienced abuse, neglect and abusive relationships or for children who are in need of specialist residential care.
Over two decades they have developed their ‘Five Fundamental’ services, each of which is principle-based and remains integral to our complete child care provisions.
Five Rivers provides these high-impact sector-leading services in locations throughout England and Ireland.
Placements Team:
T: 0800 389 8708(24 hour priority line)
Email: placementsteam@five-rivers.org
Wolverhampton City Council
Wolverhampton City Council use the Pillars of Parenting in their Children’s Homes and with a group of foster parents. Our work complements and supports the Council’s excellent, progressive and valuing approach to the young people and children in their care.