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Click Guide to Children’s Services Update

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:18:37 +0000

A unique online directory of resources for professionals working with vulnerable children and young people.

The Click Guide to Children’s Services has now been accessed over 2000 times across the world by child care practitioners, foster carers, adoptive parents, teachers and social entrepreneurs developing new services. The Click Guide originated from an awareness that, while many fantastic resources are available to support children in care, information about these resources is often difficult to find and spread across many different sources on the internet.

Download your free copy of the Click Guide to Children’s Services here

The Guide is also available to purchase as a printed book

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Digital inclusion should start with local authorities

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:14:41 +0000

With over 600 hits on the Click Guide to Children’s Services webpage, the Guide has now been downloaded in 30 local authorities, 20 children’s charities, by universities, child minders, foster carers, training organisations and advocacy services. But we are being told by child care professionals in local authorities that they are being blocked from downloading the Guide.

I am not sure why some local authorities are stopping staff from accessing the internet. The Click Guide to Children’s Services is a free downloadable resource which, for the first time, brings together the wide range of resources for looked after children. It is a rich source of knowledge and information and demystifies the complexity of children’s services as well as being a signpost for useful online resources.

It appears that MessageLabs (an email filtering service that a lot of organisations are using) have marked our email messages as SPAM. We would advise you to contact your IT department asking them to ‘white list’ www.shirleyayresconsulting.co.uk or add the email address info@shirleyayresconsulting.co.uk to the approved senders list. IT departments should know what to do to make it happen.

If your local authority does not have a social media policy it is worth looking at the trailblazer Blackburn with Darwen guidance.

The Click Guide to Children’s Services is our contribution to promoting joined up thinking across the care sector. We are now working on Guides to Personalisation and Workforce Development (which are due to be published November 2010).

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Home alone: your guide to keeping your child safe and other parenting resources

Shirley Ayres — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:36:10 +0000

This brief free guide provides practical advice on issues relating to leaving children at home including how to choose a suitable babysitter or childminder. This is one of a series of parenting leaflets published by the NSPCC. Preparing for a new birth, dealing with stress, comforting a crying baby, and managing difficult behaviour without smacking are some of the topics covered in the advice leaflets. Each leaflet contains useful tips on common parenting problems and gives contact details of organisations that can help.

Download the NSPCC Guide here . Here at Shirley Ayres Consulting we are very aware of the diverse parenting resources published by a number of organisations. These include the Tavistock Clinic Understanding Your Child series (highly recommended) through to the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners.

We have established a new category on our website called Parenting Resources to enable you to access these resources easily in one place. Find out more about Shirley Ayres Consulting

Recommend your top parenting websites, guides, toolkits and events info@shirleyayresconsulting.co.uk

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