Below are the Research Practice briefings 13-8. Please feel free to download them. You will need adobe acrobat to view the files, if you do no have it then you can download it for free from the link at the bottom of tha page

No 13 Improving services to meet the needs of minority ethnic children and families (2006)

Written by Ravinder Barn (Professor of Social Policy and Social Work in the Department of Health and Social Care)

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No 12 Health and Well-being: Physical Health (2006)

Researched and written by Rose Hunt (Research Manager, research in practice and Elizabeth Cooke, Knowledge manager research in practice )

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No 11 Supporting families (2005)

Researched and written by June Statham,Reader in Education and Family Support at the Thomas Coram Research Unit,Institute of Education, University of London, and Nina Biehal, Senior Research Fellow at the Social Work Research and Development Unit, University of York.

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No 10 Understanding and working with neglect (2005)

Written and researched by Danielle Turney (Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University)and Karen Tanner (Senior Clinical Lecturer in Social Work, Tavistock Centre).

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No 9 Promoting the Mental Health of Children in Need (2004)

by Dr. Heather Payne, University of Wales College of Medicine, and Professor Ian Butler, University of Keele

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No 8 Understanding and Challenging Youth Offending (2003)

by Ann Hagell, Principal Research Associate at the Policy Research Bureau and Editor of the Journal of Adolescence

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