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	Matching Needs and Services III Dartington Social Research Unit This practice tool is one of several emerging from Dartington Social Research Unit and its partner organisations. It is intended to help those working with vulnerable children to use rigorously assembled information on the needs of children to plan more effective services and then evaluate them to see if they are having the desired effect. Price: £20.00 / €28,89
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Going Home? findings and guidance to help professionals make good judgements about the reunification of families Dartington Academic Press Going Home? is designed to help professionals responsible for looking after children who have been separated from their families to manage the children's care careers and ensure that their eventual reunification has the best chance of success. The findings and guidance are relevant to a wide range of professional practice not only in Britain, where the original research was conducted, but also elsewhere in Europe and North America. Dartington-i practice tools are being developed from the work of Dartington Social Research Unit and its partners. They translate the key components of a method previously tried and tested in a full-scale study so that they can be used by the people who have to deal with the practical implications of research. They help them to test the findings and to find out if they hold true in the context of their own work. Some practice tools are intended to generate new services better tailored to the needs of children, some to help agencies plan and manage the services they provide more coherently. In each case the aim is to produce a measurable improvement in society's response to children in need. Price: £20.00 / €28,89


	Structure, Culture and Outcome: how to improve residential services for children Warren House Press Price: £20.00 / €28,89


Paperwork Paperwork is an assessment tool suitable for use by health, education, social care, youth justice and police professionals working with children in need. It assembles information about risks and strengths in the life of the child and family, and encourages practitioners to use the data to work out the optimal way of reducing impairment and increasing the child's quality of life. Since even a cursory glance in most children's services files reveals a tendency to collect too much information but to do too little with it, Paperwork is also designed to improve analysis and record-keeping. When combined with other tools in the Common Language series it provides management information and planning data for an agency and contributes towards the design and implementation of new services. Price: £20.00 / €28,89


	Aggregating Data There are many ways of generating management information for children's services, but few are tailored to the specific requirements of agencies and authorities, and few can be undertaken rapidly by two dedicated managers working with relatively little administrative support. The Aggregating Data practice tool addresses this gap. Building on Matching Needs and Services, it offers a quatitative solution to the requirement for sound data on which to base good planning for children in need. Price: £20.00 / €28,89


Prediction Prediction is a word relatively seldom used in the language of children's services professionals. But faced with a difficult situation, it can help to ask: 'what will happen to this child if we do not intervene?' And, having thought about the answer to that question, to ask: 'what can we do to encourage the good things we predict and to eliminate the bad?' The Prediction practice tool shows how prediction can be an important, creative aspect of work with children and families. Price: £20.00 / €28,89


	Threshold Gathering good quality information about the type and level of impairment to a child's development is an increasingly necessary aspect of assessing children's needs. It represents a significant challenge and, as yet, reliable, validated instruments exist only in embryo. In their absence, Threshold helps practitioners to collect information about a child's health and development and to analyse it in a logical sequence in order to make a global judgement regarding impairment. Weighed alongside other criteria, the results should help to determine when and how to intervene in that child's life. The tool seeks to foster greater consistency in such decision-making, both in relation to an individual practitioner's caseload, and across children's services. To that end, it encourages regular consultation about judgements with colleagues, supervisiors and experts, and it can also be used for training and in the evaluation of services. Price: £20.00 / €28,89


Evaluating good practice with children and families A practitioner's primer Evaluation is an essential aspect of the development and expansion services to improve outcomes for children in need. Accustomed to having evaluation done to them from afar, agencies and individual practitioners are increasingly being encouraged to measure the effectiveness of their work, fuelled also by the fact that funding from statutory and voluntary sources is often conditional on evidence of good practice. But how to do it? Price: £10.00 / €14,44

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