| Description |
xx, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
State of welfare |
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State of welfare.
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| Contents |
1. Child protection and family support: current debates and future prospects / Nigel Parton -- 2. The re-focusing of children's services: the contribution of research / Michael Little -- 3. Implementing the family support clauses of the 1989 Children Act: legislative, professional and organisational obstacles / Jane Tunstill -- 4. Policing minority child-rearing practices in Australia: the consistency of 'child abuse' / David Thorpe -- 5. Relating outcomes to objectives in child protection policy / Jane Gibbons -- 6. Introducing non-punitive approaches into child protection: legal issues / Judith Masson -- 7. Can filtering processes be rationalised? / Corinne Wattam -- 8. Children abused within the care system: do current representation procedures offer the child protection and the family support? / Christina M. Lyon -- 9. Protection and child welfare: striking the balance / Elaine Farmer -- 10. Need, risk and significant harm / June Thoburn, Marion Brandon and Anne Lewis |
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11. Delivering family support: issues and themes in service development / Nick Frost -- 12. Partnership with service users in child protection and family support / Bill Jordan -- 13. Putting child and family support and protection into practice / Barbara Hearn |
| Summary |
Child Protection and Family Support brings together a range of distinguished researchers and commentators to analyse the nature of the issue and possible ways forward. It draws on recent research, case studies and examples from the UK and abroad. This will be an invaluable text for students of social work, social policy and applied social studies; and for policy-makers, managers and practitioners in social work and child welfare agencies |
| Analysis |
Abused children - Services for - Great Britain |
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Child abuse - Great Britain |
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Child welfare - Great Britain |
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Social Work with Children - Great Britain |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Abused children -- Services for -- Great Britain.
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Child abuse -- Great Britain.
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Child welfare -- Great Britain.
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Social work with children -- Great Britain.
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Child Abuse [MESH]
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Child Abuse.
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Child Welfare [MESH]
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Child Welfare.
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| Author |
Parton, Nigel.
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| LC no. |
96021373 |
| ISBN |
0415142245 |
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0415142253 (paperback) |
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