You pray with one eye on a child and one eye on the clock, and that tells everything about the season you are in. This Catholic guide does not ask for an hour you do not have or a silent chapel you cannot find. It asks for 1 honest minute, offered daily for 365 days, inside the kitchen, the car line, and the foot of the bed. That minute, kept faithfully, forms a family more than a heroic 20 minute rule that collapses in 3 weeks.Organized by theme instead of date, you can open to wh...

You picked up this book because you sat down to do your best work and watched your hand reach for your phone before you even decided to. The cursor blinked, a notification pinged, and the moment of potential focus dissolved into tabs, scrolls, and micro distractions you did not intend.Or maybe you already own 5 productivity systems and still feel busy but not productive, producing more volume and less originality. What you need is not another app. You need to rebuild the capacity y...

Online Risk to Children brings together the most up-to-date theory, policy, and best practices for online child protection and abuse prevention.Moves beyond offender assessment and treatment to discuss the impact of online abuse on children themselves, and the risks and vulnerabilities inherent in their constantly connected livesGlobal in scope, setting contributions from leading researchers and practitioners in the UK in international context via chapters ...

LESS > FakeLESS > ShameLESS > MasksMORE > RealJesus promises ‘life and life to the full’. So why do so many people walk away from faith – and not just teenagers but people who have been in church for years?The full life offered is one of genuine relationship with God and others, but has our tendency to fight vulnerability, mask weakness and hide disappointment cost us the real thing? Have we tried to keep it together,...

The high profile reporting of child sexual abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile over decades has had far reaching-consequences, raising public awareness and concern, yet we continue to uncover new cases of institutional abuse which have been taking place under the radar for years.This book distils the learning from 80+ public inquiries relating to Savile as well as related cases of institutional abuse and analyses the key findings. It examines what we now know about offending within o...

LESS FakeLESS ShameLESS MasksMORE RealJesus promises 'life and life to the full'. So why do so many people walk away from faith - and not just teenagers but people who have been in church for years?The full life offered is one of genuine relationship with God and others, but has our tendency to fight vulnerability, mask weakness and hide disappointment cost us the real thing? Have we tried to keep it together, keep the faith, until we simply can't do i...

The number of children entering the child protection system has risen dramatically in the last three years with implications for children's services and partner agencies. This timely volume takes a critical look at the impact of the Munro Review (2011) on child protection and the Government's response. It looks at questions including how effective Local Safeguarding Children Boards are in providing the necessary scrutiny to ensure children are safe, how the early offer of help at local lev...

An Introduction to the Foundation Phase provides a practical guide to understanding and implementing the Foundation Phase in any early years setting in Wales. The experienced author team discuss and reflect upon a play based approach to learning and the importance of collaboration between various members in any early years settings.Students are introduced to key topics including: key theories of influential thinkers within early years education, both past and present; inte...

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to working with risk. It begins by looking at notions of need, vulnerability and protection and looks at the theoretical concepts of each before applying them to practice. By using this combination of theory and practice the authors are able to integrate policy for a wide range of services users, from older people to children, families and younger adults. Case studies accompany and illustrate each method and the reader is invited to eng...

Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as a driver of social reform. Bamford looks forward to a new model of practice that places a commitment to put social justice back at the heart of professional practice.The book contributes to the topical debates about social work education and the identi...

The growing older people population and their increasing needs for care is now presenting significant difficulties to both national government and local authorities because of constriction of formal caregivers and family units. Inevitably a change of this magnitude within the complex system in which older people services operate everywhere attracts a range of responses from the very enthusiastic to the very dismissive and hostile response. Thus, family directed support care system would pr...

This book provides a theoretically informed guide to the practice of working with offenders in different settings and for different purposes. It deals with topics such as offender rehabilitation, case management, worker-offender relationships, working with difficult clients and situations, collaboration, addressing complex needs, and processes of integration. The book offers a unique perspective on working with offenders in that it incorporates three key elements. As part of the latter, it...