Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Working with Diversity & Difference (ASS025-1) Unit Support Page Updated
The unit support page for the BSc Social Work Unit: Working With Diversity & Difference (ASS025-1) has now been updated & includes links to the catalogue records (& electronic full text where available) for all items on the reading list. Click on the link to view the list.
Student Printing Unavailable on Friday 23rd December 2011
Student printing at all University sites will be unavailable for essential maintenance on Friday 23rd December 8-30 am - 10 am.
Outcomes for Looked After Children as at 31st March 2011
Outcomes for children looked after as at 31 March 2011. Department for Education.
Outcomes reported include education, health, offending and substance misuse. For the first time this year, it also includes information to show performance against the new Impact Indicator for attainment gaps for looked after children. This indicator includes a change to the definition previously used to monitor the attainment of looked after children and covers children who have been continuously looked after for at least 6 months - those who would be eligible for the pupil premium payment.
Published 14 December 2011
http://www.education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s001046/index.shtml
Outcomes reported include education, health, offending and substance misuse. For the first time this year, it also includes information to show performance against the new Impact Indicator for attainment gaps for looked after children. This indicator includes a change to the definition previously used to monitor the attainment of looked after children and covers children who have been continuously looked after for at least 6 months - those who would be eligible for the pupil premium payment.
Published 14 December 2011
http://www.education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s001046/index.shtml
Monitoring & Evaluation of Family Intervention Services & Projects
New Report: Monitoring and evaluation of family intervention services and projects between February 2007 and March 2011 by Cheryl Lloyd and others for the Department for Education.
Family interventions were set up to work with some of the most troubled and challenging families to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB), youth crime, inter-generational disadvantage and worklessness. They take an intensive and persistent multi-agency approach to supporting families to overcome their problems, coordinated by a single dedicated 'key worker'. The findings presented are based on families referred to family interventions in 159 local authorities.
Published 15 December 2011
Report:
https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/DFE-RR174
Brief:
https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/DFE-RB174
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Family interventions were set up to work with some of the most troubled and challenging families to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB), youth crime, inter-generational disadvantage and worklessness. They take an intensive and persistent multi-agency approach to supporting families to overcome their problems, coordinated by a single dedicated 'key worker'. The findings presented are based on families referred to family interventions in 159 local authorities.
Published 15 December 2011
Report:
https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/DFE-RR174
Brief:
https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/DFE-RB174
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School Readiness of Children in Low to Middle Income Families
A new report: On your marks: measuring the school readiness of children in low-to-middle income families by Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook for the Resolution Foundation.
The extent to which children start school ready and able to learn can have a long-term impact on their likelihood of success in education and employment. It is well known that children from the poorest backgrounds are already falling behind their more affluent peers at the start of school. But little is known about the school readiness of children from low to middle income families. Analysis of a cohort of 15,000 children born in 2000 found that, at the start of school, children from low to middle income families were five months behind children from higher income families in terms of vocabulary skills – an important measure of cognitive development – and had more behaviour problems.
Published 13 December 2011
Report:
http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/media/downloads/On_your_marks.pdf [PDF 948KB]
Technical appendix:
http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/media/downloads/FINAL_Technical_Appendix_Early_child_outcomes_in_low_to_middle_incomes_families.pdf
[PDF 917KB]
The extent to which children start school ready and able to learn can have a long-term impact on their likelihood of success in education and employment. It is well known that children from the poorest backgrounds are already falling behind their more affluent peers at the start of school. But little is known about the school readiness of children from low to middle income families. Analysis of a cohort of 15,000 children born in 2000 found that, at the start of school, children from low to middle income families were five months behind children from higher income families in terms of vocabulary skills – an important measure of cognitive development – and had more behaviour problems.
Published 13 December 2011
Report:
http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/media/downloads/On_your_marks.pdf [PDF 948KB]
Technical appendix:
http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/media/downloads/FINAL_Technical_Appendix_Early_child_outcomes_in_low_to_middle_incomes_families.pdf
[PDF 917KB]
Links Between Care, Offending & Custody
A new report by the National Children's Bureau for the Prison Reform Trust indicates that the term "looked after" may be a misnomer for some children in care. The Report is "Care a stepping stone to custody: the views of children in care on the links between care, offending and custody" by Rachel Blades, Di Hart, Joanna Lea and Natasha Willmott.
Most children are taken into care because they have been abused, neglected or experienced family breakdown. The state is supposed to look after them and protect them from further harm. Yet looked after children are far more likely to be convicted of a crime and end up in custody than other children - fewer than 1% of all children in England were looked after at 31st March 2011 yet the 2010-11 annual survey of 15-18 year olds in prison found that more than a quarter of boys (27%), and over half of girls (55%), had been in care at some point before being sentenced to custody.
Published December 2011
http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/careasteppingstonetocustody.pdf [PDF 2MB]
Most children are taken into care because they have been abused, neglected or experienced family breakdown. The state is supposed to look after them and protect them from further harm. Yet looked after children are far more likely to be convicted of a crime and end up in custody than other children - fewer than 1% of all children in England were looked after at 31st March 2011 yet the 2010-11 annual survey of 15-18 year olds in prison found that more than a quarter of boys (27%), and over half of girls (55%), had been in care at some point before being sentenced to custody.
Published December 2011
http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/careasteppingstonetocustody.pdf [PDF 2MB]
New Report About Trauma & Violence in the Lives of Young People
A new report by Roger Grimshaw for the Centre for Crime & Justice Studies has been published: My story: young people talk about the trauma and violence in their lives.
The report was compiled through a series of in-depth conversations with young people imprisoned for serious violent acts. It offers an insight into the kind of severe, multiple and prolonged trauma experienced by many who while still children go on to perpetrate violent offences. The trauma recounted by the story tellers includes: witnessing domestic violence; abandonment and loss; neglect; sexual and physical abuse; kidnapping; growing up in a family where crime and violence is a normal state of affairs.
Published 23 November 2011
http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/mystory.html
The report was compiled through a series of in-depth conversations with young people imprisoned for serious violent acts. It offers an insight into the kind of severe, multiple and prolonged trauma experienced by many who while still children go on to perpetrate violent offences. The trauma recounted by the story tellers includes: witnessing domestic violence; abandonment and loss; neglect; sexual and physical abuse; kidnapping; growing up in a family where crime and violence is a normal state of affairs.
Published 23 November 2011
http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/mystory.html
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