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Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames - children, schools and families

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The King's Fund Digital Archive

The King's Fund has been producing publications since the turn of the 20th century. These cover areas of work that the Fund has addressed throughout its history, from hospital food and menu planning (The King's Fund, 1945) to making integrated care a reality (Ham and Walsh, 2013). There are now nearly 2,000 of these documents, most of which are held in hard copy at our information centre in central London. More than 1,000 of these have been digitised so far.

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Fosterline

Fosterline provides confidential, impartial, advice information and signposting on the broad range of issues of concern to foster carers and those interested in fostering, in order to support them in their role, aid retention and encourage recruitment of foster carers. Fosterline website is packed full of information on a broad range of fostering related topics. We hope you will find what you are looking for within this website, however you can make your fostering related enquiry by using our Contact Form or joining the debates and discussion on Fosterline Forums.

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Children's Hearings Scotland (CHS)

Children's Hearings Scotland (CHS) is a public body. We were established in July 2011 by the Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 and became fully operational on 24 June 2013. The Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 aims to improve the lives, outcomes and opportunities of Scotland's most vulnerable children and young people.

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Caerphilly County Borough Council Adults and Older People

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NSPCC Evidence and Impact Hub

Using evaluation, research and evidence to protect children and prevent abuse.

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Re-Solv

Gases, aerosols, petrol, glues, solvents, poppers, laughing gas, legal highs'. We're here to help. If you misuse any of the above products, or if someone you know misuses them, then we're glad you're here. Founded in 1984, Re-Solv is the UK's leading agency working to end volatile substance abuse and support those whose lives are affected by these and other ‘legal' highs.

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National Association of Independent Reviewing Officers

The primary aim of NAIRO is to improve outcomes for looked after children in England, by maximising the positive impact of the reviewing process. The ways that this purpose will be achieved may include: • Strengthening the understanding and recognition of the role of the IRO; • Influencing the legal and policy framework for looked after children and the reviewing process at national and local level; • The development of a code of practice for IROs; • The development/commissioning/provision of high quality training for IROs.

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Early Intervention Foundation

The Early Intervention Foundation's vision is for every baby, child and young person to realise their potential. Our mission is to champion and support the effective use of early intervention to tackle the root causes of social problems for children from conception to early adulthood. We focus particularly on early intervention that is shown to improve the social and emotional development of children and young people.

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The I Care Ambassador Service

Even in challenging economic times the care sector continues to expand. Adult social care currently employs 1.63 million people. Driven by significant demographic changes and changes in the way services are being delivered in every community across England, that figure will rise by a least half a million by 2025 according to Skills for Care's National Minimum Data Set. Finding, retaining and developing enough workers to meet the current and future demand for greater choice control in service delivery continues to be a massive challenge for the whole sector.

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BMH UK

Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK) was established in 2006 to raise awareness and address the stigma associated with mental illness. The aim of our work is to see a reduction in the inequalities in the treatment and care of people from African Caribbean communities who use mental health services, and to inform these communities on how to influence the strategic development, policy design and implementation of services.

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Down's Syndrome Association

We are the only organisation in this country focusing solely on all aspects of living successfully with Down's syndrome. Since 1970, we have grown from being a local parent support group into a national charity with over 20,000 members, a national office in Teddington, Middlesex and an office in Northern Ireland. Despite this, the organisation is run by a total staff of 36 (many of them part time). We also work closely with over 130 local support groups throughout the UK.

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Communities for Youth Justice

The network for sharing good practice to enable victims and neighbourhoods to deal effectively with young offenders in the community.

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Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN), The

The Childhood Bereavement Network (CBN) is the hub for those working with bereaved children, young people and their families across the UK. We underpin our members' work with essential support and representation: bringing them together across localities, disciplines and sectors to improve bereavement care for children. Collectively, we share a vision that all children and young people in the UK, together with their caregivers, can easily access a choice of high quality local and national information, guidance and support to enable them to manage the impact of death on their lives.

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Housing Learning and Improvement Network

The Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), formerly responsible for managing the Department of Health's (DH) Extra Care Housing capital programme, is the leading 'knowledge hub' for a growing network of housing, health and social care professionals in England involved in planning, commissioning, designing, funding, building and managing housing with care for older people.

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The Challenging Behaviour Foundation

The Challenging Behaviour Foundation (CBF) is a charity specialising in severe learning disabilities and behaviour described as challenging. Established by a family carer, we work with families and professionals supporting children and adults across the UK.

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Think u know

Come in to find the latest information on the sites you like to visit, mobiles and new technology. Find out what's good, what's not and what you can do about it. If you look after young people there's an area for you too ‘‘ with resources you can use in the classroom or at home. Most importantly, there's also a place which anyone can use to report if they feel uncomfortable or worried about someone they are chatting to online. All the information here is brought to you by the team at the NCA's CEOP Command. We hope you like it!

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European Platform for Investing in Children

The European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) wants to provide information about all policies that can help strengthen the capacities of children and their families to face the unprecedented challenges that exist in the current economic climate in Europe.

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eNACSO

The overriding goal for eNACSO is to create a safer online environment for children through fulfilling the following objectives: To create a solid basis for ongoing, sustainable cooperation between children's rights NGOs from across the EU with expertise on child internet safety. To develop a shared basis of knowledge and expertise in Europe about how to protect children online and develop common approaches and strategies in relation to this.

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Modern Fatherhood

Modern Fatherhood is a place to examine the role of 21st century fathers at home and in the world of work. It's the result of research collaboration between NatCen Social Research, the University of East Anglia and the Thomas Coram Research Unit funded by the ESRC. Although principally focused on fathers in the UK, also examines how the realities of fatherhood vary across Europe. With the Government concerned about troubled families and the role of parents rarely out of the press, there's never been a greater need for strong evidence about fathers.

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Simply Fostering

We are a free Fostering Agency matching service managed by qualified social workers with over 30 years experience. We aim to save you time, frustration and possible costly mistakes by helping you to find the Agency that best meets your situation and requirements. We search our Fostering Agencies Database which contains national and local agencies who we recommend based on their quality of service and foster carers' support packages. You will also find lots of information about foster care, and if you want to take the next step, we will help you to become a foster carer.

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The International Centre: Researching child sexual exploitation, violence and trafficking

The International Centre is committed to increasing understanding of, and improving responses to, child sexual exploitation, violence and trafficking in local, national and international contexts. Achieved through: academic rigour and research excellence collaborative and partnership based approaches to applied social research meaningful and ethical engagement of children and young people active dissemination and evidence-based engagement in theory, policy and practice

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MindEd

This portal contains a wealth of information for anybody working with children and young people's mental health issues.

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London Borough of Bexley Children, families and education

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Deaf Child Worldwide

Deaf Child Worldwide is the international development arm of the National Deaf Children's Society. We are the leading UK charity working with deaf children in developing countries. Our vision is a world without barriers for every deaf child and we facilitate work that enables deaf children and young people to be fully included in their family, education and community life.

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Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse

The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA) has been established to help bring about significant and system-wide change in how child sexual abuse is responded to locally and nationally. We will do this by identifying, generating and sharing high quality evidence of what works to prevent and tackle Child Sexual Abuse (including Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)), to inform both policy and practice.

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Safeguarding in Sport

Safeguarding in Sport is a partnership between CHILDREN 1ST and sportscotland, the national agency for sport. We work with governing bodies of sport, local authority sports/leisure departments, leisure trusts and sports clubs. Our work is overseen by a steering group. The aim of Safeguarding in Sport is to help ensure children stay safe and have fun while taking part in sport. We provide advice, consultancy, resources and training for any sports organisation working with children.

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Start your own business

UK Government website covering information you should know on running a business within the UK.

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Parents And Children Together (PACT)

Parents And Children Together - PACT - has been building and strengthening families since 1911. PACT helps hundreds of families every year through outstanding adoption and fostering services, award-winning therapeutic support and inspirational community projects across London and the south east. PACT is one of the UK's leading Voluntary Adoption Agencies (VAA) placing children with secure and loving families and supporting them with specialist therapeutic support.

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Pact

Pact is a national charity which supports people affected by imprisonment. We provide practical and emotional support to prisoners' children and families, and to prisoners themselves. Pact provides services in 35 prisons across England and Wales. This includes Family Support Caseworkers, Visitors' Centres, children's play, tea bars, relationship and children education courses and resettlement projects. Pact also run training for prison, probation and local authorities.

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Cambridgeshire County Council Children and Families

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Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)

FRA was established in 2007 as an EU Agency with the specific task of providing independent, evidence-based advice on fundamental rights. The agency's 90 staff members include legal experts, political and social scientists, statisticians, and communication and networking experts. Their work is guided by the FRA Management Board. The Board is responsible for defining the agency's work priorities, approving its budget and monitoring its work.

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Devon County Council Adult Social Care & Health

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Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council

Children, young people & families

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DrinkSmarter

Most of us enjoy a drink now and again. A drink to relax after a hard day, a glass over dinner, a few on a night out or a couple in front of the TV; but when it comes to alcohol, how many of us really know how much is too much?

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Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council Children & Family Care

Health and Social Care

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Lancashire County Council Children & Families

Health and Social Care

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Leeds City Council Childrens' Social Work Services

Health and Social Care

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London Borough of Barnet Children, Young People and Families

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London Borough of Havering - Adoption, Fostering & Children in Care

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London Borough of Havering - Child Protection

Health and Social Care

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London Borough of Waltham Forest - Children and Families

Family, young people and children

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Social Care Wales

Working to improve the quality of care and support for people in Wales

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Health and Social Care - Northern Ireland

This is your gateway to Health & Social Care Services in Northern Ireland, containing links to the Acute and Community Services provided by the 5 Health Trusts, General Practitioner Surgeries and Clinics, Health Boards and Agencies and central government healthcare services. There is advice about healthy lifestyles, the latest local, national and international health news and online access to medical databases.

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UK Safer Internet Centre

Have you stumbled across something worrying online? Do you need to tell others where to report online content which might be criminal in nature? The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is the UK Safer Internet Centre's Hotline for reporting three specific types of online criminal content: Child sexual abuse content‘ hosted globally Obscene adult content ‘‘ hosted only in the UK Non-photographic images of child sexual abuse (such as computer-generated images) ‘‘ hosted only in the UK.

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Professional Standards Authority

The PSA promotes the health, safety and well-being of users of health and social care services.

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Lancaster University - Postgraduate

Post Graduate Studies in Social Work

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The Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Profiling Tool

Welcome to the Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Profiling Tool. It has been developed to support an intelligence driven approach to understanding and meeting need. It collates and analyses a wide range of publically available data on risk, prevalence and detail (including cost data) on those services that support children with, or vulnerable to, mental illness. It provides commissioners, service providers, clinicians, services users and their families with the means to benchmark their area against similar populations and gain intelligence about what works.

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Families, Relationships and Societies

Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a social science journal designed to advance scholarship and debate in the growing field of families and relationships across the life course. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues from interdisciplinary, social science perspectives, whilst maintaining a solid grounding in sociological theory and methods and a strong policy and practice focus.

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Northamptonshire County Council Children and Family Services

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ENS4care

ENS4Care: Evidence Based Guidelines for Nurses and Social Care Workers for the deployment of eHealth services Innovative, high quality, safe and cost-effective national healthcare systems are dependent upon policy-makers and stakeholders developing and implementing high-quality eHealth services.

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SEND Direct

SENDirect has worked in partnership with other organisations to bring together and create information that may help to support you and your family. We have divided it up into the sections below for you to browse through. We are working on new information all the time, so if you can't find something you need using the search button (the one next to the login and register buttons at the top of the page) you can contact us to see if it's something we are working on. If you want to write or share useful information with us, again, please let us know.

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Victim Support

Victim Support is the independent charity for victims and witnesses of crime in England and Wales. We were set up 40 years ago and have grown to become the oldest and largest victims' organisation in the world.

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The Eating Disorders Association (Northern Ireland)

Established in 1992, the Eating Disorders Association (Northern Ireland) exists to provide support, information and understanding to people with eating disorders as well as their families and friends. EDANI is a charity based in Belfast City Centre that has a national focus, operating services across Northern Ireland. Eating Disorders such as Anorexia, Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder affect an estimated 1.6 million people in the UK with many more suffering in silence.

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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants

Since its inception in 1967 JCWI has helped many thousands of individuals and families who, often in desperate need, have been affected by the unfairness of British immigration and nationality law and policy. JCWI has also been striving to influence major debates in this sphere with a view to eliminating discrimination. JCWI's overarching objective is to relieve poverty and hardship among immigrants and refugees by promoting their human, economic and civil rights within a frame work of international human rights conventions and treaties.

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Official statistics

Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.

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Recovery Partnership

DrugScope, the Recovery Group UK and the Substance Misuse Skills Consortium formed the Recovery Partnership in May 2011 to deliver three years of work to provide a new collective voice for the sector on the ambitions set out in the 2010 Drug Strategy. After DrugScope closed in 2015 Adfam took on the delivery of its Year 3 2015/16 strands of work.

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The Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory

The Observatory has been set up to provide better information about the health and health care of people with learning disabilities and people with autism in Scotland. The Observatory will generate and translate information into knowledge, that is designed to inform actions, practice and policy to benefit people with learning disabilities and people with autism.

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Equality Now

Equality Now is dedicated to: Gender Equality: Women and girls are fundamentally equal to men and boys. Universality: Everyone, everywhere, has the right to live without violence and discrimination: We value strong reciprocal relationships with organizations and activists who also champion equality. Speaking Up and Out: Where others see controversy, we see opportunities for activism and change.

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Contact after adoption

This website supports practitioners working on making positive post-adoption contact plans and supporting birth relatives and adopters through contact planning for their child. The materials on this website bring together knowledge from research and practice. They draw on research by Professor Beth Neil at University of East Anglia. Research in Practice has worked with Beth and practitioners across England to share expertise and produce accessible and practical resources for professionals involved in this work.

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