What is Foster Care Like?
Foster care provides a family life for children who cannot live with their own parents and who require to be looked after away from home. Foster Carer Approval Fostering is …
Course: Caring for Vulnerable Children
Kinship Care in Scotland
In his talk What happens when children can’t stay with their families John Paul explained that 20% of children and young people in Scotland who become the subject of compulsory …
What happens when children can’t stay with their families
What happens when children can’t stay with their families? This talk is presented by a guest speaker, Dr. John Paul Fitzpatrick. John Paul is an Honorary Research Fellow within the …
What will we learn?
This week our focus concerns what happens when it is assessed that children and young people are so vulnerable and at risk that they can’t continue to stay in their …
Live Stream Event 2: Review of the content so far
On this course, learners will have the opportunity to ask the educators particular questions through live events called Live Streams These events also allow the educator to recap the previous …
Factors in Development of Resilience in Children
In recent years resilience has become the focus for a great deal of exploration and research. Most people can identify individuals, children or adults, who seem to have managed very …
Care for children in a risk averse context
This talk is presented by a guest speaker, Dr Ian Milligan. Ian is the International Project Advisor with CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection, at the …
The importance of care
An audio interview with Jenny Molloy, aka Hackney Child. Jenny is a care leaver who now acts as a lecturer, adviser and trainer in social care and social work. Jenny …
Every Child Needs Love
Love can often be a taboo word or concept and somehow be equated with being unprofessional or crossing a boundary. Yet we know that children and young people require love …
The characteristics of social pedagogy
What is social pedagogy? Social pedagogy is a form of thinking about how we care for, interact with and work alongside children and young people which is being increasingly thought …
Child and Youth Care Work
Child and youth care is a tradition and philosophy concerned with working with vulnerable children and young people that would traditionally be associated with North America, although it also exists …
Social Work and Social Care
Social work is a vast and complex form of practice and intervention which sits alongside and is inter-connected to the even broader sphere of social care. The Relationship Between Social …
An Introduction to Residential Child Care
This page will act as only a brief introduction to residential child care as it is an area of practice that we will cover in more detail in our Caring …
What is Youth Work?
YouthLink Scotland is the national agency for youth work in Scotland. They describe youth work as being an educational practice which can contribute to children and young people’s learning and …
Key characteristics of child care practice
In this talk Graham provides a brief introduction to some of the different traditions and philosophies that exist, both UK based and international, which govern and guide how we intervene …
