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 Do H and NSPCC for professionals working with children
Tabla de materias
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
Sobre el autor
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.