Harriet Ward, Carolyn Davies

Safeguarding Children Across Services: Messages from Research

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on the latest research, this book provides today's practitioners and policymakers with an accessible summary of what we currently know about child protection. It explains the forms of abuse, how common they are and their impact before going on to evaluate effective interventions to combat maltreatment.

Produktdetails

• Safeguarding Children Across S
• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 306mm x 210mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9781849051248
• ISBN-10: 1849051240
• Artikelnr.: 33690927

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Davies is Research Advisor at Thomas Coram Research Unit at Institute of Education, University of London, UK. Harriet Ward is Director of the Centre for Child and Family Research and Research Professor at Loughborough University, UK. Together they are the editors for the Safeguarding Children Across Services series, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Identification and initial response.
3. Universal and targeted services to prevent the occurrence of
maltreatment. 4. Social work interventions to keep children safe. 5.
Specific interventions for children and families with additional or complex
needs. 6. Providing a context for effective inter-agency practice. 7.
Overview: Principal messages and their implications. Appendix 1.
Implementation and advisory group. Appendix 2. Details of evaluations of
specific interventions discussed in Chapter Five. Appendix 3. Project
summaries. References. Index.