Safeguarding Children A Shared Responsibility

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

• ISBN13: 9780470518731
• ISBN10: 0470518731
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780470518847
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-13
• Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

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 cooperate 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

Author Biography

Pat Cawson and Sarah Gorin are based in the Research Unit at the NSPCC, UK. Hedy Cleaver is Emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway, UK, and Steve Walker is the Head of Child and Family Services for the City and County of Swansea.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Themes and Principles of Safeguarding	p. 11
Putting Children and Their Rights at the Heart of the Safeguarding Process	p. 13
Working Effectively with Parents	p. 38
The Wider Family and Community	p. 62
Children Living Away from Home	p. 77
Working Effectively in a Multi-Agency Context	p. 112
The Process of Safeguarding	p. 137
Should I Be Worried?	p. 139
Approaching Someone for Help	p. 159
Carrying Out or Contributing to an Assessment	p. 179
Judgements, Decisions and Plans	p. 200
Intervention	p. 218
Reviewing and Ending Intervention: Achieving the Best Possible Outcomes for Children	p. 252
Index	p. 279
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