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Learning about Practice from Practice: A Peer-Based Methodology
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Stanley, Tony – Child Care in Practice, 2014
A recommendation from the Social Work Task Force was that all employers of social workers should conduct a regular "health check" of the social work profession to learn from practice as part of a continuous cycle of improvement. This article documents how the London Borough of Tower Hamlets has gone about this. I describe the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Caseworkers, Child Welfare
Emergent Family Support Practices in a Context of Policy Churn: An Example from the Children's Fund
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Warren, Simon; Apostolov, Apostol; Broughton, Kevin; Evans, Ruth; MacNab, Natasha; Smith, Penny – Child Care in Practice, 2006
What might family support services look like in the reconfigured children and family services after the Children Act? This is the question this article attempts to explore by drawing on evidence from the National Evaluation of the Children's Fund in England. The article describes common features in two case-study sites that might indicate the…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Child Welfare, Prevention
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Intervention in Families with Children with Behavioural Problems within the Context of a Sure Start Programme
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Brown, Eleanor A.; Dillenburger, Karola – Child Care in Practice, 2004
Sure Start is a Government project that aims to prevent social exclusion by targeting children between 0 and 4 years of age living in areas of social and economic deprivation. This study examined whether a Tier 2 Behaviour Support Service within a local Sure Start project was able to bring about improvements in children's behaviour and the levels…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Isolation, Psychotherapy, Behavior Problems