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This podcast episode describes what self-harm is and how social workers can support young people and carers who are self-harming. The podcast discusses why looked-after children are more at risk of mental health problems and how social workers can support young people
The evaluation of everyday multi-professional intervention to safeguard and promote the well-being of vulnerable children is limited and restricts both operational planning and professional intervention. The core aim of this programme is to contribute to the development of a platform that will support better understanding of the routes from intervention to outcomes for vulnerable children in Scotland through utilising administrative datasets and longitudinal research.
In this episode of “File on 4” from BBC Radio, Jane Deith investigates the practice of “Special Guardianship” orders in the UK, orders that grant legal guardianship of children to grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors, or others who come forward to care for children when their parents can’t. Deith interviews people who have become special guardians for children and uncovers a general lack of support for these guardians who find themselves overwhelmed by the needs of children who have experienced trauma. “[The children] needed specialist help that it wasn’t possible to give,” said…
This episode of the Conversation podcast from the BBC features interviews and discussion with two women who grew up in institutions as young children, one in the UK and the other in Kenya.
"What’s it like to grow up away from your family?" asks the episode. "Two women who spent part of their childhoods in care tell Kim Chakanetsa how they look back on that time, and how the experience has shaped them as adults. As a child, Rukhiya Budden experienced terrible neglect and abuse growing up in an orphanage in Kenya. Today she works with Hope and Homes for Children and campaigns for…
In this segment from BBC Radio 4, File on 4 reports from Uganda on conditions in UK-funded orphanages where, in the worst cases, children are neglected, exploited and abused by orphanage staff, tourists, volunteers, and donors. In the segment, the reporter accompanies a local government official, a translator, and police officers on a "raid" of one of these orphanages in Uganda, funded by donors from the UK, that are unlicensed and identified to be closed down by the Ugandan government. The orphanage they visit, she notes, has been misrepresented to donors - the…
This episode of BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine program features an interview with Rukhiya Budden, who grew up in an orphanage in Kenya. The episode explains that the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) issued a statement that orphanages are bad for children and explores why this is so. In the interview, Budden tells her story of being placed in an orphanage as a child in Kenya when her mother was unable to care for her, and the conditions and treatment she experienced and witnessed while in the institution, including chronic neglect and abuse. She also explains…
This 17-part podcast series from BBC Radio 4’s 'The World at One' tells the story of the adoption process of two children in the UK, sharing the views of the birth parents, grandparents, social workers, foster carers, potential adopters, and others. The series gives remarkable insight into adoption in the UK.
This talk by Lucy Hurst-Brown from BBC Radio 4's, Four Thought series discusses the institutionalization of people with disabilities, including young people, and its effects. In the segment, Hurst-Brown shares personal experiences from her work with people with learning disabilities and the positive changes many experienced as a result of deinstitutionalization and community reintegration efforts.
However, Hurst-Brown also highlights many of the ways in which people with disabilities are still segregated from communities and from society. There are over 3,000 people with…