Issue 13 - August 1999
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Editorial: Getting in Early
CYPFA’s Early Help vision and Family Start programmes.
Author: Carolyn Gay
Keywords: Early Help, Family Start, preventative, contracting, outreach work

New approach for hard-core, high-risk kids
Research on effective programmes for repeat offenders and severely disordered adolescents for the Youth Services Strategy.
Author: Lisa Hema
Keywords: Youth Services Strategy, repeat offenders, at-risk youth

Paying attention to neglect
Defining neglect and the damage it can cause children.
Author: Anne Caton
Keywords: neglect, Breaking the Cycle of Child Abuse

Setting a benchmark for neglect
Establishing current attitudes to neglect as a benchmark for a new prevention campaign.
Author: Susie Hall
Keywords: neglect, Breaking the Cycle of Child Abuse, social marketing

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children
The effects of PTSD on children.
Author: Julie Maddison
Keywords: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, abuse

Marketing ourselves in user-friendly terminology
The language CYPFA uses can determine how people see the Agency.
Author: Pauline Mossman
Keywords: language, community liaison social worker

A country practice
Social work practice in a rural setting.
Author: Vicki Carmichael & Jill Kennard
Keywords: country, rural practice, isolation

DARE to make change
Evaluating a drug abuse resistance programme for young people.
Author: Freda Briggs & Russell Hawkins
Keywords: DARE, drug abuse, schools

Legal: Accessing information: Who has rights?
A guardian’s right to access information held by CYPFA about their child.
Author: Stewart Bartlett
Keywords: guardianship, privacy, Official Information Act