by David Niven | May 13, 2014 | Bristol, Children, Children & Social Care
I was really interested to read a report called ‘Beyond the Adoption Order: Challenges, Interventions and Adoption Disruption’. It was a 12 year study carried out by Bristol University, commissioned by the department of education and it analysed data from...
by David Niven | Apr 24, 2014 | Bristol, Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Conference, Mental Health, Podcasts, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Work
In conjunction with British Association of the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BASPCAN) David Niven Associates (DNA) hosted This is my childhood; there will be no other. The conference tackled early intervention of the ‘toxic trio’ of...
by David Niven | Apr 3, 2014 | Bristol, Children, Podcasts
The guest this week is Sandra Trotman Meadows – the Chief Executive Officer of PEYTU, a Bristol based charity providing training and consultancy to the Children & Young People’s workforce. The interview focusses on early years and the influences of the...
by David Niven | Mar 26, 2014 | Bristol, Mental Health, Social Work, Training
Supervision I want to revisit a subject that unashamedly I’ve talked about quite a bit in the past. Good anecdotal evidence from across the country points to the fact that, for a number of reasons, supervision is not well practiced in social work and...
by David Niven | Mar 14, 2014 | Bristol, Child Abuse, Children, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence, Social Media, Training
I have a lifetime of knowledge in child protection and therefore offer Child Protection training through my company, so I want to share my training experiences. Infant schools, primary schools and secondary schools are all sending staff to these courses and some...
by David Niven | Feb 20, 2014 | Bristol, Media Training, Training, Training Courses
Media training in Bristol The media is the window on the world for 99% of the population. Whether it is broadcast, written or social, we get our information and knowledge from it and use its content to form most of our opinions. Over the last 15-20 years...
