Me and my befriender: exploring adult/child befriending relationships
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Milne, Sue
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2013-02-07T14:33:32Z
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2013-02-07T14:33:32Z
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2012-05
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Organised befriending provides supportive, reliable relationships through volunteers to people who would otherwise be socially isolated. In the UK, for example, befriending projects provide services to a range of people at risk of social isolation including those with mental ill-health, people with disabilities, older people, refugees, families and children. In children’s projects, befrienders generally meet with individual children (occasionally siblings groups) on a weekly basis and engage them in leisure activities.
In the UK befriending projects are generally small charities operating on a year by year basis, with few staff and shoestring budgets. Many projects are affiliated to umbrella organisations such as befriending networks.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6560
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en
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CRFR
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Briefing
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60
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Children and young people
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Community care
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Demographic trends
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Friendship
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Identity
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Immigration, refugees and asylum seekers
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Young people
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Mental health
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Me and my befriender: exploring adult/child befriending relationships
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Article
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