Child Protection on TV

You might want to set your +box or program reminder to watch the new BBC2 series Protecting Our children, first episode to be screened Monday 30.1.12 at 9pm. Following child protection staff in Bristol, the programme also shows interprofessional working with NHS, Family Courts and the police. The series has been made in partnership with the Open University.

Getting the most from practice supervision

I found this blog post from How Not to Do Social Work most enlightening and thought that social work students approaching practice and supervision for the first time might find it useful: Reclaiming Good Supervision

Incarceration, but no treatment, for children

Johnson, M. (2012). It's time to treat drug addicted children as adults. Guardian, 17.1.12. Mark Johnson's article expresses concerns over the situation in which drug addicted children can be sent to secure units for committing addiction fueled crimes, yet secure units do not cannot pursue a remedial detox course with there residents, but merely manage addition via methodone. Nowhere in the UK is there residential drug treatment available to under 18's.
For more information on children and young people in prisons see Bromley briefings prison factfile., 2011 from the Prison Reform Trust.