Helps health service workers negotiate the complexities of child protection practice, with the aim of preventing abuse and neglect and protecting children from further harm once it has occurred. This handbook explains how the child protection process works. It is suitable for students and by anyone who works with children.

Provides a comprehensive overview of language acquisition in children. This book introduces students to key theories and concerns such as innateness, the role of input and the relation of language to other cognitive functions. It teaches students the skills needed to analyse children's language.

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.

Focuses on childhood in several ways from childhood across change - the shift from hunting and gathering to an agricultural society, the impact of civilization, and the emergence of major religions, to globalisation and the spread of child-centred consumerism. This book highlights the gains, the divisions, and the losses for children.