Social Welfare & Social Services

The Sunday Times bestseller about a young girl in need of some care and compassion.Lucy is eight years old and ends up in foster care after being a...

Can I Let You Go? is the true story of Faye, a wonderful young woman who may never be able to parent her unborn child. Faye is 24, pregna...

The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and i...

The heartbreaking true story of a young, troubled mother who needed help. The sixteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. It is ...

A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass. Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection regist...

The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine and Ian had travelled ha...

Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes....

Gehart's MASTERING COMPETENCIES IN FAMILY THERAPY: A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO THEORIES AND CLINICAL CASE DOCUMENTATION, 4th Edition, not only teaches ...

First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the...

A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass. When Cathy receives a call about a terminally ill widow...

This widely used practitioner resource and course text, now significantly revised, is considered the most comprehensive guide to working with child...

When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by troubled parents who hoa...

Little Jamey, 2½ years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. The police and social services have no...

What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option? Cathy Glass is about to find out. From author of Sunday ...

The latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. Beth is a sweet-natured child who appears to h...

One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.John Gray, New York Times Book Review  A...

From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost litt...

The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were Yours...

Trauma can have a significant impact on the stability of a child's development and can put additional pressures on the education staff working with...

WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHORLike Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrate...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a harrowing and moving memoir about two innocent and frightened unfosterable children who do not kno...

When Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details...

Social workers and health professionals are often placed in situations where they are verbally or physically threatened by service users and others...

This is a remarkable achievement. Like Batman's Utility belt for teachers. So many practical, wise, inspiring, and achievable ideas are packed in h...

The heartbreaking true story of a young, troubled mother who needed help. The sixteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. It i...

A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. ...

Aged nine Joss came home from school to discover her father's suicide. She's never gotten over it. This is the true story of Joss, 13 who...

Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care s...

Children who have experienced trauma, loss or separation early in life need more than just special care and attention; they need to be parented wit...

Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has ...

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022 Craig Bromfield was just 13 years old when Brian Clough, o...

Sunday Times bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watsons first heartbreaking memoir. Justin was five years old; his brothers two an...

This book offers a critical overview of established and emerging manifestations of domestic violence across Europe. It describes how countries with...

Mass-migration, conflict and poverty are now persistent features of our globalised world. This reference book for social workers and service provid...

Activity and engagement are vital to our well-being throughout our lives and this continues to be just as true of people living with dementia.The a...

Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planni...

A new challenge faces foster carer Maggie Hartley: this time it's not a child that's at risk, it's her mother. Can Maggie help Hailey to escape her...

The eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. This book tells the true story of Ca...

In her new book, Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to...

A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Rosie Lewis. Contains previously published ...

The second book from Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Two weeks after saying farewell to her first foster child, Casey is as...

The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass.Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car. Trapped in his own dar...

Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Caseys doorstep with no possessions, no English, and no explanation. It will be a few weeks before Casey star...