Safeguarding Children

A Shared Responsibility
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-51873-1
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

A multi-professional approach to safeguarding children, which accompanies the Department of Health's new training courses.
- Focuses on the methods of identifying children at risk and details what happens at each stage of the social work process
- Presents a fully multi-disciplinary approach as to how professional groups and services should co-operate to safeguard children
- Part of the prestigious NSPCC Wiley Series in Safeguarding Children
- Accompanies the training courses run by the DoH and NSPCC for professionals working with children

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cleaver, Hedy

Cawson, Pat

Gorin, Sarah

Walker, Steve

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors vii

Preface ix
The Editors

Acknowledgements xv

Introduction 1
Jenny Gray

I Themes and Principles of Safeguarding 11

1 Putting Children and Their Rights at the Heart of the Safeguarding Process 13

2 Working Effectively with Parents 38

3 The Wider Family and Community 62

4 Children Living Away from Home 77

5 Working Effectively in a Multi-Agency Context 112

II the Process of Safeguarding 137

6 Should I Be Worried? 139

7 Approaching Someone for Help 159

8 Carrying Out or Contributing to an Assessment 179

9 Judgements, Decisions and Plans 200

10 Intervention 218

11 Reviewing and Ending Intervention: Achieving the Best Possible Outcomes for Children 252

Index 279

Über Autor(innen)

Hedy Cleaver is Emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway, UK.

Pat Cawson is a freelance consultant, formerly Head of the Child Protection Research Unit at the NSPCC.

Sarah Gorin is a Senior Research Officer at the NSPCC.

Steve Walker is the Head of Child and Family Services for the City and County of Swansea.