What I Offer

The Young Persons' Therapeutic Intervention Program.

Welfare Principle:

In all actions concerning children, whether taken by public or private welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. (The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Article 3.1989)

"The child is a person - and not an object of concern". (Lord Justice Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, 1987 UK)

" Attachment is a vital need for all children". Bowlby's, (1984) definition of attachment is "a way of conceptualizing the propensity of human beings to make strong affectional bonds to particular others and of explaining the many forms of emotional distress and personal disturbance, including anxiety, anger, depression, and emotional detachment to which unwilling separation and loss gives rise".

Quality Protects . I will deliver my service on the foundation of the policy and practice used in the Assessment Framework Triangle Department of Health. (Section 7 of the Local Authority Social Service Act 1970 UK)

Child Protection and Looked After Children As an experienced Social Worker in Child Protection and Looked After Children, I provide a holistic approach using Crisis and Task Centered intervention, implementing Systemic Family Therapy, where appropriate.

Criminal Justice and Youth Offending Programmes With Probation Service and Youth Offending Team Supervisory positions, I offer a program which includes cognitive behavioural intervention aimed at reducing offending by challenging and changing attitudes and behaviour. Also, I provide intervention through Victim Awareness Sessions, Education, Training and Employment, Family Support and Mentoring.

Through Life Story Work and ' Re-Parenting ' I aim to provide a Safe Base for the young person to explore relationships, their actions and their feelings, and to help the young person to make their own interpretations of our work and give them a structured and understandable way of talking about themselves. Life Story work can give the young person a sense of self worth and an opportunity to evidence positive attitude.

Report Writing

A written report on the therapeutic intervention will be submitted where requested and appropriate. Reports for Case Conferences and Civil and Criminal law Courts can also, be provided.


Data Protection Act (1998 UK). I will conduct my business in line with the 7 guiding principles of the Data Protection Act and the Six Caldicott Principles for Sharing of Person Identifiable Information (UK).

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