'Primary Interventionists in the Team Around the Child approach' – new book by Peter Limbrick for practitioners, managers and parents

Moving towards the primary interventionist model is an antidote to child and family overload in ECI and early support services

Extract:

“Long-term stress and strain in families can surely contribute to later mental ill-health for children, parents and other close family members. These mental states

CARING ACTIVISM: A 21ST CENTURY CONCEPT OF CARE by Peter Limbrick

Many of these vulnerable people live beyond the reach of public services and must cope as best they can on their own. This book suggests every citizen has the choice of turning away from their plight or taking action

With a Foreword by Professor Hilton Davis

Back cover:

Think of rough sleepers in E

Shelter research – In work, but out of a home (UK)

Over 33,000 families holding down a job despite having nowhere stable to live

Summary

Official figures haven't previously told us much about the types of families who are becoming homeless.

To explore this, Shelter have conducted new analysis of government data. Through this analysis we are ab

Delivering Quality Health Services – a Global Imperative for Universal Health Coverage. Report from WHO

The report highlights that sickness associated with poor quality health care imposes additional expenditure on families and health systems

Poor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health in countries at all income levels, according to a new joint report by the OECD,

Holding down vital job a struggle, say parents of disabled children. Important new report

Parents of the UK’s million disabled children are struggling to hold down vital jobs

– even when they downshift and stall career progress

– because of a dearth of suitable and affordable childcare, flexible jobs and appropriate leave.

A new report by charity Working Families analysed feedba

Gaps between Expert and Public Understandings of Care Experience and the Care System in Scotland

Report identifies strategies the sector can use to build support for the changes necessary to improve the lives of care-experienced children and young people

By the Robertson Trust, Life Changes Trust and CELCIS, the Report charts public understandings of childhood, parenting and the care system, a

Early Intervention in Zimbabwe – Video and Guide

From their website: In Africa (Zimbabwe), The Templer Foundation has provided financial and practical support to existing programs that support disabled and terminally ill people, primarily lepers, amputees and AIDS orphans. We’ve provided and continue to provide prosthetic supplies and financial su

Updated statutory guidance for early education and childcare - England.

This statutory guidance from the Department for Education is for English local authorities on their duties pursuant to section 2 of the Childcare Act 2016 and sections 6, 7, 7A, 9A, 12 and 13 of the Childcare Act 2006. Local authorities must have regard to this guidance when seeking to discharge tho