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Working with school children

Bookshop product-- Various authors

Get your copies of the most popular titles in our Parenting Matters series. These books address key areas around trust, behavioural issues and trauma, and how these can affect children’s behaviour and learning in education.

Transport, terminology and tiredness: reflections from research

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Dr Lynn Snow shares her reflections whilst travelling in Europe as part of her Churchill Fellowship research. Her experiences of terminology and tiredness lead her to think about the unfamiliarity and newness that children and young people in care can face.

Effective adoption panels

Bookshop product- 978 1 913384 17 3 - Jenifer Lord, Deborah Cullen, revised by Elaine Dibben

Effective adoption panels provides guidance on the roles and responsibilities, as well as the laws and regulations, connected to adoption panels. It is the only guide designed to help panels make sound and effective recommendations.

Adoption by foster carers

Bookshop product- 978 1 913384 26 5 - Elaine Dibben and Viv Howorth

Adoption by foster carers is an area of practice that has attracted controversy and divergent views prevail. This Good Practice Guide explores some of the issues behind the contradictory views. It challenges practitioners to reflect on the established “practice wisdom” and adopt a more open-minded and child-centred approach.