Offers an introduction to, and critical analysis of, the complex issues involved in child protection work. This book encourages reflection and debate through such features as case examples and interactive exercises. It is comprehensive and addresses professionals involved in child protection work. It is suitable for students and practitioners.

Since the risk of abuse is highest in the early years, it's vital that those working with young children understand how to support children who have encountered abuse. This is a straightforward, practical guide to creating safe environments for these children, including exercises, case studies, and tips on working individually and in teams.

What happens when social workers leave their desks to carry out home visits? Harry Ferguson provides a rich and compelling insight into day-to-day child protecting practice. Capturing the sight, smell and feel of the home visit, he outlines the realities and complexities of face-to-face social work within this challenging field.

This book equips professionals with the ability to recognise a child at risk and to work with a child already suffering. Advice is offered on how to navigate the multi-disciplinary processes. Fictional case studies and exercises immerse the reader in scenarios. The authors lead readers through learning points, recommendations, and legislation.

This book draws on a wide range of evidence to explore the facts about the relationship between substance misuse and domestic violence and their effect on children, and examines the response of children's services when there are concerns about the safety and welfare of children.

Increasing concern on the part of the government, criminal justice agencies, the media and public, regarding child sexual abuse has been prompted by a series of events including, cases involving the abduction, sexual abuse and murder of young children. This work evaluates the development of policy and legislative measures to control sex offenders.

This book explores the policy and theoretical frameworks underpinning childcare, focusing on the key issues of childcare policy, legislation and practice. It uses case studies to illustrate the application of the frameworks in practice.

With an emphasis on professional expectations, values and practice skills such as building trust, listening and advocacy, this textbook helps enable social workers base their practice with children and young people on a truly child-centred model.

Using the UN convention on the Rights of the Child, the book examines a range of policy areas including health, education, housing, social security, child care and protection. It also provides a critical account of British policy since 1945 from the perspective of the child, concluding with suggestions for making policy more child-centred.

Reviews current problems and challenges facing professionals involved in child protection, particularly focusing on areas where knowledge on child abuse is limited.

This book examines the risk factors surrounding children at risk of experiencing and perpetrating violence, and looks at the positive role that children's rights can play in their protection. The authors propose that violence in childhood is not spontaneous: that children are raised to become violent in poorly functioning families.

Children, family and the state examines different theories of childhood, children's rights and the relationship between children, parents and the state.

Drawing on the newest research designed to hear the voices of children and young people, this important book examines children's experiences and perspectives on living with domestic violence.

This new and updated edition of the best-selling book on assessing children in need and their families integrates practice, policy and theory to produce a comprehensive and multidisciplinary guide to all aspects of assessment. The Child's World explores the implications of recent legislation and national guidance for assessment practice.

This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care. It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of law directly relevant to practitioners.

Praise for the First Edition: `A clear and concise introduction to comparative social policy. It provides students with a framework in which to analyze the British welfare regime and to compare it with those developed and developing elsewhere' - Hilary Graham, Professor of Applied Social Studies, University of Warwick In this extensively revised Second Edition, the British case is related to the experiences of the United States of America, Sweden, Germany and Ireland, and set in the context of policy issues within the European Union. This textbook provides a critical introduction to British and comparative social policy. Drawing on the comparative analysis of welfare regimes, the book show how the welfare systems of individual countries can only be understood thorugh exploring the wider global context. The chapters highlight the richness, complexity and dynamics of welfare regimes in different countries, while ar the same time considering shared features and trends. This text is a course book for The Open University course, Family Life and Social Policy (D311).

A book to help students and newly-qualified social workers plan for and manage complex cases in an increasingly complex environment

Describes day-to-day difficulties and challenges associated with assessing adults. This book focuses on the 'person to person' relationship in assessment and considers important areas such as: being well prepared; asking difficult questions; dealing with assessment problems; and, the importance of you in communication and relationship building.

A guide to conducting home visits, a task which many feel unprepared for and is fraught with difficulties. It includes: real case examples; realistic solutions to the everyday difficulties you face; examples of what to say; and, reference to topical research including the Munro Review of Child Protection findings.