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Award-winning playwright Lemn Sissay provides a compelling and challenging talk, describing his experience of being raised in care on TED. Sissay’s talk describes his struggle to find his identity in the confusing journey of being a child of the state …
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Two recent English reviews of practice (Gardner, 2008 and DSCF, 2009) have identified the problem that the ‘recent emphasis on strengths based approaches and the positive aspects of families (for example in the Common Assessment Framework) arguably discourages workers from …
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John Wheeler and Viv Hogg recently published a book chapter documenting the evidence base supporting the Signs of Safety approach. The chapter is called Signs of Safety and the Child Protection Movement, and is published in C. Franklin, T. Trepper, …
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Casey Family Programs in the USA recently published an important report called, “Strategies to Increase Birth Parent Engagement, Partnership, and Leadership in the Child Welfare System: A Review.” Birth parent engagement in child welfare programs is associated with reducing the …
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Following an event in Solihull (UK) earlier this year for Heads of Service, Senior Managers of Children’s Services and partner agencies who are, or were considering, implementing the Signs of Safety, three separate Leaders’ Days were held last month. The …
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The full titles of these book chapters are: Roessler, M. and Gaiswinkler, W. (2012) Der Signs of Safety ansatz ambivalenzmanagement, praxis und praxisforschung in der Jugendwohlfahrt. In: Brandstetter, Manuela. Schmid, Tom. Vyslouzil, Monika (Hg.) (2012) Community studies aus der sozialen …
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Earlier this year Resolutions Consultancy secured the trademark for Signs of Safety. Recently, Andrew Turnell wrote an open letter to the Signs of Safety community announcing the Signs of Safety Certification and Licensing Programme that will come into effect on …
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