Direct Work Resources for professionals

Zoomdek Publishing creates and publishes direct work resources and tools to support children, young people and vulnerable adults with risk assessing, safety planning, and safeguarding.

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Special offer for the beginning of 2026.

Subscribers get the first three months of our online subscription free. That’s from January to March 2026, pay nothing to use our online apps. Subscription charges apply from 1st April 2026, you can cancel your subscription at anytime.

Online Direct Work tools

Available only in our subscription area, our exclusive online interactive Apps are ready to use over and over again. Helping breakdown barriers, open dialogue, and gain downloadable results. Also here is a host of other resources available only to subscribers. We constantly add to this growing direct work resource.

My house

Interactive direct work app creating downloadable day and night scenarios in the home. Allows the child or young person to build their home to give you greater homelife insights and understand their day and nighttime experiences. Makes it possible to highlight or uncover dangers and hazards within the home and how the user lives their home experience.

An additional room is available for more investigative work and also serves as a room for Occupational Therapists to use to help a child understand a purpose built room to support their mobility needs.

My animal kingdom

An Interactive direct work app that allows a child or young person to explore their own emotions towards their family network. My Animal Kingdon enables the child to select animals to represent themselves and the network around them. the animals can represent traits of family members through the child’s eyes and with a simple drag and drop, each animal can be placed into one of four jungles. This will help to establish an understanding of their emotions, and feelings towards others.

My diary

An Interactive direct work app allows children and young people to communicate feelings, events and actions in their own words. Giving you the opportunity to explore what the child or young person has been doing and how they felt since you last saw them. The child can choose and emotion and write a short paragraph. Download for your records and measure emotions through each of your visits.

You’re awesome

Interactive direct work tool that builds self-esteem, rewards good behaviours, and encourages the service user to feel positive about themselves. Exploring their recent experiences, coping strategies and highlighting to them, how awesome they are.

Downloadable resources

Our subscription area is a must for professionals in Social Work, Child Protection, Family Liaison, and other areas requiring direct work. An ever-growing library of direct work resources exclusively for our subscribers to download and use with their service users allowing areas of concern to be discovered, highlighted and timely planned action to be implemented.

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Books

Home of The Moodlins! As seen at Community Care Live. The Moodlins colours change with their emotions. All of Wiblow and his friends’ adventures and experiences can be found here. Also includes The Wiblow Worries series.
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Direct Work Worksheets

A selection of worksheets for children and young people. Each worksheet is based on social work and psychological theories. Hear and evidence the child’s voice and emotional attachments.

Investigative tools

Packs of direct work cards for ice breaking, risk assessing, safety planning with children, young people and vulnerable adults, also adult dementia and reminiscence.
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Latest news & insights

All our blog posts are available through the blog and the latest three are displayed here to keep you up to date. Click and enjoy!

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An Epidemic of Pain

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What others have to say

We are always grateful to our users for their kind words about our products. To send us yours, email us at admin@zoomdek.com

Game changer. Got my service users to open up and saved time.

Kelvin BlackFrom Dallas, USA

Made my working life so much easier, direct work tools that really work. So handy to keep in bag too.

Zasha SwanFrom Glasgow

The direct work cards are simple but brilliant and the Moodlin books are a must have in my tool kit now.

Frank JonesFrom Cardiff

The on-line tools are amazing, and the downloadable PDF is fantastic for my records as well as evidencing for court.

Jack BrownnFrom London, UK