Working with children and families - Audio

A discussion of the problems and pressures experienced by parents of disabled children, highlighting schemes and charities that are there to help.

A look at a family centre in Glasgow, where local government can hinder the setting up and running of desperately needed facilities.

Julie Stein is midwife. This track focuses on the work she expects in her day-to-day life and how policy can affect her employment and workload

Ruth Thompson, a healthcare visitor, and Ruth Howard, a representative of the childbirth trust, discuss aspects of care and work in relation to newborn and developing children.

A dental nurse visits a school to give pupils a fun and informative lesson on dental hygiene and the importance of a balanced diet.

Interviews that examine a small rural playgroup, the rigorous rules necessary to begin looking after children and what the work is like.

Two child-oriented services, the Early Years project and a local crèche - their services and the impact they have on the local area.

A brief introduction to this album.

Husband and father Calvin Wilkes discusses his attitudes to family life and living as part of a second-generation immigrant family.

Three different takes on aspects of family life involving divorce and living as a lone parent, and the positives and negatives encountered by in these conditions.