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Safeguarding Children
A Shared Responsibility

Hedy Cleaver (Edited by), S Gorin (Author), Pat Cawson (Edited by), Sarah Gorin (Edited by), Steve Walker (Edited by)

9780470518748, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 20 March 2009

304 pages
23.1 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.445 kg

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

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

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
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