Karen Broadhurst & Chris Grover 
Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children [PDF ebook] 

List of Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
1 Introduction: Safeguarding Children? (Karen
Broadhurst, Chris Grover and Janet Jamieson).
2 Safeguarding Children: Historical Context and Current
Landscape (Carolyn Taylor).
3 Every Child’s Rights Matter (David
Archard).
4 Child Poverty (Chris Grover).
5 The Common Assessment Framework: Effective Innovation for
Children and Young People with ‘Additional Needs’ or
Simply More Technical Hype? (Andy Pithouse and Karen
Broadhurst).
6 Arguing the Case in Safeguarding (Sue
White).
7 Safeguarding Children through Parenting Support: How Does
Every Parent Matter? (Karen Broadhurst).
8 Safeguarding Children’s Well-being within Educational
Settings: A Critical Review of Inclusion Strategies (Jo
Warin).
9 ‘Health’ and Safeguarding Children: An
‘Expansionary Project’ or ‘Good Practice?
(Sue Peckover).
10 ‘Be Healthy’: Drugs, Alcohol and Safeguarding
Children (Ian Paylor).
11 In Search of Youth Justice (Janet
Jamieson).
12 Looked After Children and the Criminal Justice System
(Claire Fitzpatrick).
13 Safeguarding Children Who Are Refugees or Asylum Seekers:
Managing Multiple Scales of Legislation and Policy (Malcolm
Hill and Peter Hopkins).
14 Conclusion: Safeguarding Children? (Karen
Broadhurst, Chris Grover and Janet Jamieson).
Index.

Karen Broadhurst is a lecturer in Applied Social Science in
the Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University.
With a professional background in social work practice, she has a
keen interest in how policy and legislative changes impact on the
front-line delivery of services. She has a particular interest in
qualitative research, including the ethnographic study of everyday
practice. Her work is published in a range of national and
international journals.
Chris Grover is a senior lecturer in Social Policy in the
Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster
University. His main research interests and his recent journal
publications concern various aspects of social security policy,
including income replacement benefits for sick and/or disabled
people, social assistance for low paid workers, and loaning social
security payments. His most recent publication is Crime and
Inequality (2008).
Janet Jamieson is a senior lecturer in Criminology at
Liverpool John Moores University. Her teaching, research and
publications primarily focus on youth justice, young people and
crime, and gender and the criminal justice system. She is the
co-editor of Gender and Crime: A Reader (2008).