Children, Young People and Families - Textbooks
Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth
Contemporary Policy and Practice
This original book explores the importance of geographical processes for policies and professional practices related to childhood and youth. Contributors from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds explore how concepts such as place, scale, mobility and boundary-making are important for policies and practices in diverse contexts.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 29.99 Add to basket
- AvailableHardbackGBP 85.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 29.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 29.99
Understanding Family Meanings
A Reflective Text
Understanding Family Meanings provides an overview of the basic concepts and theories related to families using readings with questions and analysis to encourage reflection and learning. It focuses on family meanings as the key underpinnings for academic study and professional training.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 26.99 Add to basket
- AvailableHardbackGBP 74.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 26.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 26.99
Child slavery now
A contemporary reader
Around 210 million children are still in slavery today. This groundbreaking book shows why they remain locked in slavery, the ways in which they are exploited and how they can be emancipated. It also reminds us that all consumers are implicated in modern childhood slavery.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 29.99 Add to basket
- AvailableHardbackGBP 79.99 Add to basket
Youth justice in practice
Making a difference
This book examines youth justice in a UK and international context, highlighting the challenge facing all jurisdictions in balancing welfare and justice. It explores the impact of political ideas and influences on the structural and practical challenges of delivering youth justice.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 21.99 Add to basket
- AvailableHardbackGBP 69.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 21.99
Making sense of Every Child Matters
Multi-professional practice guidance
This book considers the implications for practice of the 'Every Child Matters' (ECM) agenda for working with children, analysing the key issues from the perspective of the different professions that make up the 'new children's workforce'.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 24.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 24.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 24.99
Promoting children's wellbeing
Policy and practice
This attractive and accessible textbook analyses and examines the policies, services and practice skills needed for collaborative, effective and equitable work with children.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 24.99 Add to basket
Connecting with children
Developing working relationships
This accessible textbook illustrates how good communication and positive and participative relationships can be developed with children across the range of universal and specialist children's services.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 24.99 Add to basket
Beyond listening
Children's perspectives on early childhood services
This book is the first of its kind to focus on listening to young children, both from an international perspective and through combining theory, practice and reflection. With contributions and examples from researchers and practitioners it examines how listening to young children in early childhood services is understood and practiced.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 24.99 Add to basket
Child welfare and social policy
An essential reader
This book provides an essential introduction to the key concepts, issues, policies and practices affecting child welfare, with particular emphasis on the changing nature of relationships between child welfare and social policy. No other book brings together such a wide selection of material to form an indispensable teaching and learning resource.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 30.99 Add to basket