2008
August
Louder than words
Looked after children get confidence boost from advocacy project
July
Cricket helps engage hard to reach children
Salford YOT - use of restorative justice
Pre paid cash card helps Cambridgeshire's looked after young people use activities
Crime mentors tackle young crime
Foetal alcohol syndrome
Rural answer to dearth of care for girls
June
Moat House: helping young mothers gain from education
Dealing with an overnight influx of roma child asylum seekers
US exports culture of summer sibling camps to the UK
Engaging refugees communities at school
Research: poverty parenting and social exclusion
May
Recruiting male foster carers
A first hand account of being an adoption social worker
Concurrent planning in foster care
Supporting families whose child has a terminal illness
April
Sensory theatre for disabled children
Dutch have courage to change
South Gloucestershire's beacon is shining light for children in care
Supporting the parents of children with conduct disorders
Research Abstracts: Parenting Support
March
Young Runaways Project reduces numbers of children missing in care from Lancashire
Operation Fox brings social work to school
Disabled kids speak out
Parents with mental health problems and their children
Research Abstracts: Impact on children's live
Lucy Faithfull Foundation expands work with sex abusers
Tackling children's drink and drug problems
Guide to attachment disorder
Life skills programme helps vulnerable young people
Multidisciplinary social work in schools
Research: children with disabled parents
Research abstracts: Children with disabled parents
February
Blind children benefit from specialist sports clubs
Healthy eating programme helps Romanian immigrants in Spain to integrate
Building Bridges: a Family Welfare Association project for children with parents who have mental health problems
Sunderland Council: Youth development in practice
Welsh school pulls out all the stops to tackle underage drinking
January
Short-term support fostering care in west London
Modern-day pessimism is making our children ill
Teenage pregnancies among children in care: research
Research Abstracts: Teenage pregnancies
Peacemakers in Peterborough: defusing racial tensions
Social work practice placements in Lewisham schools: an innovative project
South Central Youth: gang members to youth workers
Foster placements and domestic violence fuel youth's aggression
Young offenders: Coldingley prison's crime diversion scheme
Effective support for kinship carers
Bullrush cottage: a children's home run by Educare
Children with complex health and social care needs
Research abstracts: Children with complex needs
Research reviews: services in rural areas
Research abstracts: social exclusion in rural areas
Hackney's model for change draws widespread interest
How the child protection system under utilises the extended family
Swinfen Hall YOI: how it won a top best practice award
October
Counselling for birthparents of looked after children
Where exactly should social work end and therapy begin?
Talking therapies for children with mental health problems: the obstacles
Homeless children: the work of Step in Nightstop
Mental health crisis among young people: research
Life-story work: Trudy and Keith Pye break the mould
The social care needs of refugee and asylum-seeking children
Research abstracts: Child Refugees and asylum seekers in families
September
Children North East and Fathers Plus: engaging fathers in Sure Start
Fathers are marginalised, says Gary Clapton
Poverty and parenting
Warrington project reduces children running away from home
Involving children and young people in decision-making
Research abstracts: Children's participation
Coping with divorce and separation
Children in care have their say
Voice: the charity for children in care
How one children's centre is leading the way in engaging ethnic minorities
August
Research: Social work training and communication
Risk factor: should a five year-old-girl have contact with her family?
Therapies for children who have been sexually abused
Assessing the suitability of new adoptive parents
Research Abstracts: Approaches to adoption
Helping a 'lost child' regain self-worth
Social pedagogy and the children's workforce
Intensive care turns around disruptive boy
July
Witness to domestic violence: creative ideas to help children
Helping refugee children at school: Oxford's Oasis project
Leaving care services depend on what section is used
Welcare, Generate, Webster-Stratton: building fathers' parenting skills in south London
Where foster carers assess
Parents who have learning disabilities
Brighton drugs and alcohol project aims to keep families together
June
Gang member risks violence and imprisonment
Craig-y-Parc School, Cardiff: helping children with learning disabilities achieve more independence
Projects that prepare children for a life after care
Sport can bring different ethnic communities together Good practice in providing accessible and appropriate childcare for disabled children
Research realities: Exercise and self-esteem
Research: children's centre pilot link worker post
Participation of children in shaping services
Research Abstracts: Participation of Children
MayHow the idea of honour among families can cover up abuse
How Northern Ireland's fostering service helps foster carers deal with schools
Marginalised children: New ideas to help hard-to-reach teenagers
Thousands of child carers excluded from government statistics
Warwickshire Safeguarding Children Board creates training framework
Teenage boy in care rages after family split
Delivering children’s services through the voluntary sector
Why new powers for teachers to control pupils are welcome
Are children's services cost effective?
Research Abstracts: Resilience in Young People
Research: Resilience in fostered young people
Parenting intervention programmes: do they work
Research: Conduct disorder programmes
Research Abstracts: Conduct disorders
Glasgow's underprivileged children who show emotional resilience
April
The Risk Factor: A therapeutic school helps a neglected, traumatised boy rediscover his identity
How to support young carers
Research abstracts: young carers
March
Child neglect
Safeguarding children at licenced premises in Sheffield. A Community Care Award winner
Nowhere left to go
Practice comment
February
The Big Book Bash, Community Care Award winner 2006 looked-after children category
January
Inappropriate sexual behaviour: the risk factor. Andrew Durham and Patrick Ayre on the case of an adolescent whose behaviour is causing concern
Award winner profile: the Impact Project from the Nottinghamshire Domestic Violence Forum
How an Ealing care leavers project scooped the top prize
What have we learned? Child death scandals since 1944
Award winners: Family Days scoop the top prize. How did they do it?
Clic not clique: A scheme in Stoke has put care leavers at the centre of its service management
2006
December
Contact at Christmas. Should an alcoholic mother be given access to her fostered children?
November
Practice Panel: A care leaver claims he has been ritually abused Care leaver Mark Houston gives his take on the practice implications of the green paper
Children in care: Bob Broad on the green paper for looked after children
Professionals' views of GP-style social work practices
October
Therapeutic schools: how a young girl's life benefited from intervention after her neglected early years
September
Centre for the Development of Social Care Practice leads the way in university and local authority partnerships
Social workers need better skills to communicate with children
How the RAPP project in Hull is successfully mentoring young people
Sexually inappropriate behaviour: adolescent boys 'sex games' require intervention
Managing the transition between foster and adoptive care
August
How to help refugee children settle in the UK
Case Study: UK
Communication is vital to social care department's culture
June
Graham Hopkins reports on a drama project in Bournemouth that tackled the issue of young people's sexuality
Looked-after children don't often get the chance to shine but in Rotherham they are taking centre stage
Play fills the void
Abuse never far away
May
Collateral damage
Danger signals
Death with dignity
My practice - Panos Vostanis
April
One step beyond
A night to remember
March
Home Truths
The next step is crucial
Beyond the blame game
Restorative justice programme wins award
My practice - Clea Barry
February
Arts and Minds
Support schemes for antisocial families
Getting to know you
January
Her mother threw her out
Improving health services for young people
Expressions of faith
My practice - Joanna Perry
2005
December
It all began with a word
A special time
Coram rolls out training scheme
My practice - Clea Barry
November
Project offering support to mothers in prison whose children are in care
My practice - Sarah Baalham
October
Mother who won't let go
Hackney Council wins communications award
Revolving Doors' link worker schemeShould he stay at home?
My practice - Panos Vostanis
September
Rapport in a storm
This baby is for keeps
A safe route to school
August
What about the children?
No words for her trauma
Shrinking violence
July
Survival skills first
She can be a child again
May
Collateral damage
More than a cry for help
Domestic policy
April
A clean break with the past
Moving images
My practice - Clea Barry
March
Language link
Shared families (Community Care award winner 2004 - Children and Families category
My practice - Panos Vostanis
February
'We won't judge you' (Community Care award winner 2004 - Young Offenders category)
January
Bully beefs (Community Care award winner - Supporting children and families category)
My practice - Clea Barry
