Charity boss challenges accuracy of 'at risk' data | Children & Young People Now

The founder and director of Kids Company said methods used by local authorities to identify and classify children at risk do not reflect actual levels because if they did child protection services would be unable to cope with the demand. - 

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Charity boss challenges accuracy of 'at risk' data | Children & Young People Now

Talk by Tim Bond at OCTIA 2014

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"How safe are our children?" - NSPCC - 2014

The NSPCC has published the How safe are our children? 2014 report. 

It compiles the most robust, up-to-date child protection data that exists across each of the four nations in the UK. Key messages include: child protection is turning into an emergency service which can only react to the most serious cases due to insufficient early support services, more families struggling financially and higher thresholds. 

Further information:  How safe are our children? 2014 

Plus Guidance - An innovative new online counselling platform

"Plus Guidance"

"Our Vision is a world in which:
Counselling is seen as an
effective solution to personal challenges;
Professional guidance
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Mental health & well-being are regularly maintained and
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Online risk, harm and vulnerability: Reflections on the evidence base for child Internet safety policy

Excerpt:

 

"Implicitly, if not always explicitly, policy initiatives assume particular motives,

knowledge and practices on the part of children. These assumptions may be well

founded or, instead, unnecessarily anxious or already dated. If we think young people are living their leisure lives alone in their bedrooms, we will take a different view

of social support they may need compared with if we see them as richly embedded

in their peer group. If we see them as strong and able to cope with what life throws

at them, the policy agenda will take a different direction compared with if we see

them as at risk. Here lies the value of direct research with children and their lifeworld

online as well as offline"

http://www.ehu.es/zer/hemeroteca/pdfs/zer35-01-livingstone.pdf?utm_source=Young+and+Well+CRC&utm_campaign=8b035c4c70-UPDATE_20130310&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0473a717df-8b035c4c70-317580345

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk

 

PSYCHOTHERAPY 2.0 Where Psychotherapy and Technology Meet

‘This book explores the implications of the digital world for talking
therapies. It covers both the theoretical and the practical, from the way
the internet might challenge and change current practice, to thinking about
the legalities and training required to set up as an online practitioner. The
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Two Great New Videos from "The Site"

"The Site" have produced two new videos - both are worth watching and sharing with young people who may be concerned with their mental well being

For young people who are concerned about their mental health:
"What is a Mental Health Crisis?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfF2qmXPrTY&feature=em-uploademail

For young people who have suicidal thoughts:
"Help If You're Feeling Suicidal"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KLlF0tyY3w&feature=em-uploademail