Children's experiences of care and destitution

Two documents have been published recently giving voice to the experiences of children and young people. The first, from the Children's Society focuses on refugee children and families in the UK and their experiences of destitution. Pinter, I. (2012). I don't feel human. Children's Society.
 The OFSTED (2012). Children's care monitor 2011 has also been published reporting the views of looked after children on the state of social care in England.

Speech and Language Therapy in Youth Offending work.

The Youth Offending Team in bolton is currently benefiting from the services of a speech and language therapist, employed via the local NHS Trust. Ian Warriner works with young offenders, an estimated 60% of whom have communication difficulties, making it difficult for them to work with the services which aim to keep them from reoffending. Read all about it in the Guardian, 7 February 2012.

Helping parents of looked after children

This month's issue of Children in Scotland has an article on  a unique group-based intervention in West Lothian, working with the parents of looked after children, many of whom had  discrupted childhoods themselves. The intervention groups have had some success in mixing psychotherapeutic approaches with cognitive behavioural techniques; there have been improvements in parent-child interactions and several children have been able to return home, an outcome which was not expected previous to the intervention.
Rogers, J. (2012). "Fix us parents so we can fix our kids". Children in Scotland. 129, 10-11.
Find it at Serials 362.7.