This book is concerned with how social workers and managers can engage reflectively and proactively with changes in children's services. Vicky White and John Harris have drawn together the contributors' experiences of working with children in a broad range of settings, emphasising ways in which the current context of change can be used as an opportunity to enhance the quality of service provision and achieve better outcomes for children and their families. The authors examine approaches to the assessment of children in need and the analysis of risk, and consider the impact of poverty and social divisions on children's lives. Highlighting key concepts, such as community development and multi-agency interventions, they anticipate likely policy developments for the future. Examples are provided of the planning and implementation of new initiatives including: · preventive education to protect children · positive reinforcement of children's cultural heritage · therapeutic approaches to sexually inappropriate behaviour · training programmes for foster carers. The real-life material on which the book draws can be used as source material by students undertaking qualifying programmes in health, social care and social work and by more experienced professionals to reflect on their own practice, particularly if they are undertaking post-qualifying courses – a timely resource for all staff and students seeking to develop good practice in children's services.

Whether you are setting up a new or are already delivering a childhood bereavement service, you will find useful information in this book. The starting point is a discussion of the importance of good practice in childhood bereavement services, but the ebook will be useful as a reference when specific issues in developing or reviewing your policy and procedures arise.

This book presents guidelines for good practice in community care work. It describes the planning and implementation of pioneering initiatives in the community, analyses their effectiveness and outlines their practical implications.

In this book, the author addresses the importance of leadership and marketing. Chapters include hiring the dental team, learning leadership skills, establishing office policies, conducting productive team meetings, organizing business systems, maintaining financial controls, increasing case acceptance, setting personal and practice goals, professionally marketing the dental practice (attracting new patients/maiximizing retention of existing patients) and making the hygenic component an important revenue centre. The book includes visual examples of effective letters, sample advertisements and newsletters.