A handbook of policing leadership behavioural skills to inform and improve police knowledge, understanding and effective practice.

A practical guide for the nursing care of neonates within hospital and home settings for the first year of life.

Focuses on using a strength-based approach when working with children and families; based on the belief that there are always strengths in the most challenging of situations.

Helps social workers and health professionals recognise potential risks in situations, when to avoid involvement, and how best to manage the risks. 

This is the third edition of our best-selling Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work with the most up-to-date guidance so social workers can write reports that achieve and illuminate.

A collection of realistic policing scenarios exploring how officers and policing students might work with operational dilemmas, consider conflicting demands, assess options and make professional decisions.

A clear, concise and critical account of the theory and practice of teacher educator expertise as both relational and second order, that is how to work with someone else so they are able to learn the how and why of teaching.  

A collection of (fictitious) stories told from the residential child care worker role to help demonstrate how they work with dilemmas, weigh up options and make decisions in the moment.  

A clear and intelligent guide for anyone who wants to engage in effective coaching conversations.

A timely new text, fully up to date and relevant for both HE and FE practitioners. It recognises the increasing importance of designing appropriate online learning and teaching, and the need for all those involved in education to fully embrace digital skills and capabilities. 

Developed specifically for the social work degree apprenticeship to guide apprentices through the unique requirements of this new qualifying route.

The essential guide to exploring the nature of creativity with ideas and practical strategies for nurturing pupils’ creative skills in primary and secondary schools.