Billie Oliver – författare

Across the range of social care, health and welfare professions, it is essential that students and practitioners engage meaningfully with the communities and service users they work with. This book offers a timely and practical guide to the methods and skills related to forming and developing such partnerships.Helping both aspiring and experienced practitioners to empower communities and service users, this book:- Explores how the developing roles of communities and service users influence policy, services and practice- Highlights the different ethical, power and boundary tensions when working with communities and service users and suggests ways to overcome them- Provides examples, case studies, activities and useful resources which help illustrate ways and methods of empowering people and enabling their voices to be heardAn accessible and wide-ranging book, Engaging Communities and Service Users is a must have text for students and practitioners in social care, health and welfare.

This book is essential reading for anyone studying and working in the new integrated children's services. The Children's Workforce Development Strategy sets out the basic skills and knowledge needed by people whose work brings them into regular contact with children, young people and their families. Built around this Common Core of Skills and Knowledge and packed with case studies and reflective exercises, this book helps students and practitioners understand the theory behind these issues and develop strategies for embedding them within their own practice.

A love letter to Harry Styles, a pop star who’s a sign of the times.The world may have had to say goodbye to One Direction, but that hasn’t stopped Harry Styles from stealing our hearts. From the swoop of his boy band bangs to his sheer Gucci look on the runway, the singer, actor and all-around dreamboat is a tour de force of a cultural icon, but our love is deeper than his great choices in fashion and his dulcet tones. Did you know that Shania Twain is one of his idols? That he’s BFFs with Stevie Nicks? And that he’s generous with his money, donating to a long list of charities? This book is packed with 50 titbits of Harry Styles trivia and some very serious collages. Billie can only pray that he one day sees it and graces her with an Instagram DM. (A girl can hope.)

Olivia Rodrigo has smashed through records and into our hearts, but how much do you know about the star? From Disney Channel to Glastonbury, Olivia has rapidly risen to become a household name. But while you may know every lyric off Sour and own your own driver’s licence, did you know that she used to write Twilight fan fiction? That she loves to watch Jeopardy? That she's friends with Niall Horan? And that she received a shoehorn from President Joe Biden(?!?!)?This book is packed with 50 titbits of Olivia Rodrigo trivia and collages as a tribute to a star who’s good 4 us. (Stickers included!)

Everything you need to know about the queen of the charts and our hearts.From her signature red lip to her endless list of chart-topping hits, Taylor Swift is a force to be reckoned with. Every blank space in The Book of Taylor has been filled with colourful collages of our fave cat-loving, Grammy-winning, country-pop queen, alongside 50 T-Swiz facts, including her biggest fears, her unpublished manuscript, her go-to drive-through order and more. Go beyond friendship bracelets and get to know your dream BFF on a whole other level.