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Search our award winning research and publications, which include:
- resources for teachers and tools for professionals
- research for child care professionals on subjects as diverse as child abuse and protection, fostering and adoption and health and disability
- games and videos, DVDs and CDs.
View our top 5 list of bestselling publications.
| Published date | Publication | Price |
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| 2004 |
What works in adoption and foster care?by Clive Sellick Type: Tools for professionals Written to help managers and practitioners make evidence based decisions about where and how to place children for the right outcomes.
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£12.99 |
| 2004 |
What works for young people leaving care?by Mike Stein Type: Tools for professionals This book looks at problems, service challenges and outcomes for young people leaving care.
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£12.99 |
| 2001 |
Promoting social inclusion: A practice manual for community workersType: Tools for professionals Provides practical guidance on how to plan, carry out and evaluate a community development interventions to tackle disadvantage.
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£8.99 |
| 2003 |
Missing Side of the Triangle - Assessing the importance of family and environmental factors in the lives of childrenby Gordon Jack and Owen Gill Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals In this book, Gordon Jack and Owen Gill argue that it is the third side of the triangle - the external factors - which is often missing from assessment in practice.
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£5.99 |
| 2004 |
What works for children and young people with harmful sexual behaviours?by Simon Hackett Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals This title reviews interventions and strategies for working with children and young people who display sexually harmful behaviour.
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£12.99 |
| 2005 |
Meeting with respect packby Lorell Webster Type: Tools for professionals A resource pack for professionals who want to develop child centred meetings in any area of social work.
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£30.00 |
| 2006 |
Inclusive Education in primary schools - supporting children with social, emotional and behavioural difficultiesby Karen Knamiller and Mary Duffy Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources, DVD, videos and CDs This pack offers a holistic approach to supporting inclusive education and explores ways of working with children, parents/carers, teachers and volunteer befrienders.
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£85.00 |
| 2006 |
Reality checkType: Tools for professionals, DVD, videos and CDs Based on young people's own accounts, this DVD and toolkit gives care workers a valuable opportunity to reflect on and improve practice.
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£30.00 |
Module 1: Using research evidence in practice: an introduction - Trainer's packby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources All you need to run your own training on this module.
The module contains session plans, learning outcomes, group activities and a CD of handouts and slides.
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£22.00 | |
| 2006 |
Module 1: Using research evidence in practice: an introduction - Learner's packby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources This module of The Evidence Guide covers areas including:
- what we mean by research evidence and why we need to use it
- identifying the factors that affect practitioner decision making and the role of research
- why not all evidence is equal and challenging claims to authority
- appraising the obstacles/enablers to using research in practice
- make sense of research jargon.
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£12.00 |
Module 2: Locating research evidence in five steps - Trainer's packby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources All you need to run your own training on this module.
The module pack includes session plans, learning outcomes, group activities and a CD of handouts and slides.
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£22.00 | |
Module 2: Locating research evidence in five steps - Learner's packby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources This module of The Evidence Guide covers areas including
- how to formulate a search question and strategy on a specific practice issue
- identifying key search terms and making the search sufficiently broad/narrow
- looking for research using the internet and online resources
- using gateways and databases to find research
- how to get full copies of research papers.
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£12.00 | |
Module 3: Appraising and reviewing research evidence - Trainer's packby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources All you need to run your own training on this module.
The module pack includes session plans, learning outcomes, group activities and a CD of handouts and slides.
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£22.00 | |
Module 3: Appraising and reviewing research evidence - Learner's packby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources This module of The Evidence Guide covers areas including:
- research design understanding quantitative and qualitative methods
- the different types of questions that quantitative and qualitative research can answer
- a gentle guide to statistics and qualitative research methods
- the importance of critical appraisal, tried and tested critical thinking tools provided.
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£12.00 | |
Module 4: Adapting and applying evidence: issues for individual practitioners and organisations - Trainer's packby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources This module of The Evidence Guide covers areas including:
- the evaluation cycle - what are trying to achieve
- outcome or output knowing the difference and measuring them
- selecting indicators and identifying sources of evidence
- what and when planning your evaluation
- how methods and tools for collecting and recording data
- analysing and presenting evaluation data
- reflecting on practice, learning from and sharing the findings.
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£22.00 | |
Module 4: Adapting and applying evidence: issues for individual practitioners and organisations - Learner's packby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources This module of The Evidence Guide covers areas including:
- practical paths to becoming an evidence-based organisation
- identifying obstacles to acting on evidence
- increasing access to evidence for practitioners, team managers and project leaders
- presenting evidence to achieve change and developing dissemination plans
- predicting and responding to resistance.
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£12.00 | |
Module 5: Outcome-focused evaluation - Trainer's packby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources All you need to run your own training on this module.
The module pack includes session plans, learning outcomes, group activities and a CD of handouts and slides.
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£25.00 | |
Module 5: Outcome-focused evaluation - Learner's packby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources This module of The Evidence Guide covers areas including:
- the evaluation cycle - what are trying to achieve
- outcome or output knowing the difference and measuring them
- selecting indicators and identifying sources of evidence
- what and when planning your evaluation
- how methods and tools for collecting and recording data
- analysing and presenting evaluation data
- reflecting on practice, learning from and sharing the findings
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£15.00 | |
The Evidence Guide - the complete five modulesby Sarah Frost Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources Helps social care professionals find, judge and apply research evidence in practice.
This easy to use modular resource is perfect for anyone - from commisioning managers to social work students - wanting to know how to make better use of research evidence in practice and service development.
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£140.00 | |
Where we are atType: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources A fun, interactive CD-ROM developed through research in Barnardo's projects.
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£12.99 | |
Bwise2 Sexual ExploitationType: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources, DVD, videos and CDs This pack equips teachers, social workers and counsellors to educate young people about sexual exploitation with honesty and realism.
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£85.00 | |
| 2007 |
Aiming for HighType: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources, DVD, videos and CDs Replace fear with fun and help children prepare for the move to high school. This big box pack is full of games, activities and an animated film (DVD) to help deal with children's anxieties.
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£150.00 |
Your Choice DVDType: Tools for professionals, DVD, videos and CDs This film drama and work book explore the story of Matt and Aiden, who sexually assault Ellie.
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£85.00 | |
Offside Workbook with DVDType: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources, DVD, videos and CDs This film and workbook explore appropriate teenage relationships and challenge sexual beliefs that can be associated with harmful sexual behaviour.
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£63.75 | |
About self-harmType: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources This concise booklet explains why young people self-harm, dispels some common myths and provides information about accessing help and support.
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Free | |
| 2007 |
A practitioner's guide to interagency working in children's centresby Karen McInnes Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals This literature review draws together best practice guidance on interagency working at the operational level, with a specific focus on the implications for children¿s centres; directly useful for practitioners.
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Free |
| 2010 |
Making plans: Using Family Group conferencing to reduce the impact of caring on young peopleby Naomi Clewett, Martha Slowley and Jane Glover Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals This briefing describes how this short-term method of service delivery can reduce the amount and impact of caring by young people.
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Free |
| 2007 |
Tipping the Icebergby Julie Harris and Barbara Robinson Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals A pan Sussex study of young people at risk of sexual exploitation and trafficking, the objective of this 12 month research was to establish the level and nature of current need for services amongst young people at risk of sexual exploitation in Sussex.
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Free |
| 2004 |
I want to play too: developing inclusive play strategies for disabled children and young peopleby Fiona Ward, Chloe Elliott and Caroline Day Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals This booklet presents practical ideas from initiatives developed by Barnardo's North West.
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Free |
| 2002 |
Taking part toolkit: promoting the real participation of children and young people ¿ summaryby Polly Wright and Deena Haydon Type: Tools for professionals For any agency that works with children and young people. The toolkit includes a report, a resource pack, participation standards and an audit tool.
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Free |
'What works for children' initiativeType: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals City and York universities, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, have been working with Barnardo's to explore how research can be applied to childcare practice.
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Free | |
| 2004 |
SCIE Knowledge review 07: Improving the use of research in social care practiceby Isabel Walter, Sandra Nutley, Janie Percy-Smith, Di McNeish and Sarah Frost Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals This review examines effective ways of promoting research use in social care, explores models of research use that include staff at different levels and settings in social care, and looks at what organisational structures are needed to realise the aim of using research to improve practice.
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Free |
| 2000 |
Making connections linking research and practice summaryby Mike Hughes, Diana McNeish, Tony Newman, Helen Roberts and Darshan Sachdev Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals The purpose of this report is to review of factors which promote or inhibit the dissemination of social care research and its application in practice.
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Free |
Committed to Rights (part 1) - Good practice case studiesType: Tools for professionals Good practice examples illustrating how participatory work can improve outcomes for children in trouble.
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Free | |
Committed to Rights (part 2) - Information sheetsType: Tools for professionals Good practice examples illustrating how participatory work can improve outcomes for children in trouble.
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Free | |
Committed to Rights (part 3) - self-auditing checklistsType: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals Good practice examples illustrating how participatory work can improve outcomes for children in trouble.
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Free | |
Committed to Rights (part 4) - Synopsis of the UN Convention on the Rights of the ChildType: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals Good practice examples illustrating how participatory work can improve outcomes for children in trouble.
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Free | |
| Apr 2011 |
Reaching families in need: Learning from practice in Barnardo's Children's Centresby Barnardo's Policy and Research Unit Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals This briefing highlights good practice enabling Sure Start Children's Centres to extend their reach to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged families.
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Free |
| 2007 |
Keeping the Family in Mind Resource Pack (2nd Edition)by Louise Wardale Type: Tools for professionals, DVD, videos and CDs Back by popular demand, the 2nd Edition of the Keeping the Family has new and improved contents. The pack is aimed at anyone who works with parents with mental health difficulties, their children and their families, and is designed to raise awareness of the issues that they face.
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£34.99 |
| 2006 |
Protecting self and keeping safeby Mel Foley Type: Tools for professionals, Teaching resources WINNER - Children & Young People's Services "Stay Safe Award" 2006. A pack of materials for social workers, teachers & youth leaders to use in delivering effective education on sexual exploitation.
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£45.00 |
Nae DangerType: Tools for professionals, DVD, videos and CDs Made by young people who have been affected by sexual exploitation, Nae Danger looks at issues around risk and keeping safe.
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£150.00 | |
| Apr 2012 |
Under fives and their families affected by imprisonment: A handbook for Sure Start Children's Centresby Owen Gill Type: Tools for professionals This handbook is a practical resource to help Sure Start Children's Centres support children and their families affected by imprisonment.
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£6.00 |
| Oct 2012 |
Family support for children and families affected by imprisonment: A handbook for Families First services in Walesby Barnardo's Type: Tools for professionals This handbook is designed to be an accessible aid to practice for busy staff and their managers as they strive to develop their reach to the children and families of prisioners.
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Free |
| Jul 2013 |
Working with children and young people who experience running away and child sexual exploitation: An evidence-based guide for practitionersby Emilie Smeaton Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals The aim of this guide is to provide practitioners working with children and young people with learning from an action research study addressing the relationship between running away and child sexual exploitation (CSE) so that, where appropriate, this learning can be incorporated into direct practice.
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Free |
| Sep 2014 |
The Way Forward: a report for care leaversby Natasha Slater Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals, Campaign documents Our new report 'The way forward' shows research that Barnardo's has conducted with young people leaving care that we work with. This report shows what is important to them.
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Free |
| Mar 2015 |
Evaluation of Barnardo's Families and Communities Against Child Sexual Exploitation programmeby Barnardo's (funded by DfE) independent evaluation by the University of Bedfordshire's International Centre Type: Tools for professionals The two year FCASE programme has been based in existing Barnardo's specialist CSE services in three locations across England.
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Free |
| Sep 2015 |
Care leavers accommodation and support frameworkby Barnardo's in partnership with St Basils Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals Young people leaving care need somewhere safe and suitable to live to help them make a positive transition into adulthood. Good housing underpins success in other areas of life.
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Free |
| Nov 2015 |
Bringing Five to Thrive Alive: two approaches to implementing Five to Thrive within Barnardo'sby Bridget Pettitt Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals, Teaching resources Five to Thrive, developed by Kate Cairns Associates, is a flexible approach that offers learning for practitioners and parents. It is designed to enhance awareness of the central ingredients for healthy brain development in babies, with five key activities - Respond, Cuddle, Relax, Play, Talk - described as the 'building blocks for a healthy brain.'
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Free |
| Aug 2014 |
Research on the Sexual Exploitation of Boys and Young Men: a UK Scoping StudyType: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals Using qualitative and quantitative evidence, this research explores the ways in which boys and young men are being sexually exploited; the differences and similarities between male and female victims of sexual exploitation and what services are currently available for boys and young men.
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Free |
| Aug 2014 |
Not Just a Girl Thing: A Large-scale Comparison of Male and Female Users of Child Sexual Explitation Servicesby Ella Cockbain, Helen Brayley and Matthew Ashby Type: Policy and research documents, Tools for professionals, Campaign documents Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is increasingly recognised in the UK and internationally
as a child protection and crime prevention priority. Yet, research and responses have
focused heavily on girls and young women, leaving fundamental knowledge gaps
around the characteristics and needs of boys and young men affected by CSE.
The study introduced in this document formed part of a wider collaborative research
programme designed to improve understanding of and inform responses to the sexual
exploitation of boys and young men in the UK.
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Free |
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