A detailed approach to supporting a child and family. Episode Two: Acknowledging the child’s present skills and level of understanding during the first meetings

This series of short articles is intended to be relevant to you if you are in some sort of non-family early child and family support capacity for families who have a new baby or infant with impairments that are predicted to impact on health, development and learning

Commenting on the child's

Editorial: All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children Discusses Integrated Care (UK). Are you yawning already? Part 3

Twenty years of apathy and failure – with children and families paying the heavy price

My focus is on babies and young children who have very special needs, often with multiple impairments. My dream is for effective integrated early child and family support in which local agencies and practitioners

Editorial: All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children Discusses Integrated Care (UK). Are you yawning already?

This discussion is reported in CDC Digest page 15.

Integrated care around babies and infants who need extra support for their development and learning is my dream, and has been for a few decades now. It is not difficult to achieve once the practitioners supporting a child and family have the will to

Interconnections argues children’s visits to hospital for therapy should be reduced as much as possible. Why is that?

Paediatric therapy is a strange phenomenon that I have never seen a good definition of

Editorial: First of all, I am thinking about babies and pre-school children who have sensory and/or physical impairments that have a negative impact on their development and learning. Some of these children will h

A detailed approach to supporting a child and family. Episode One

Meeting a family for the f

Editorial: All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children Discusses Integrated Care (UK). Are you yawning already? Part 2

'important and well-paid mouths are flapping but I doubt any usable wind is being generated'

The optimistic thought behind this limp initiative is that there is some magical process by which directives from well-paid people at the top of government, statutory services and charities will directly inf

Vulnerable children and adults - with Ukraine and other conflict zones in mind

Extract from ‘Caring Activism’:

There cannot be a universal definition to say who is vulnerable and who is not and each of us is entitled to define the word as we wish. I hope you will evaluate the relevance of caring activism to adults and children whom you consider vulnerable and to yourself.

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A new child’s significant impairments are only half the story for a family. Here is a letter to parents (and hoping practitioners will read it too)

- you have a chance to get to know your baby and carry on with everyday life without too many people getting in the way -

Editorial comment

Of course, the baby or infant needs all available support to help her or him survive, to stay as healthy as possible, to remain pain free and to have the best p

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