Safeguarding Children: A Shared Responsibility / Edition 1

by Hedy Cleaver, Pat Cawson, Sarah Gorin, Steve Walker

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470518731
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/13/2009
Series:	Wiley Child Protection & Policy Series , #21
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

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Table of Contents

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