Nigel Parton

Child Protection and Family Support

Tensions, Contradictions and Possibilities

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Produktbeschreibung

Child protection and family support is a major social issue and there is a continuing debate about how policies and practices in relation to child protection integrate with those in family support and child welfare more generally. Prompted in part by the Audit Commission and the publication of the Department of Health Research studies in Child Protection, it is the key issue facing all child welfare agencies. While it is agreed that there needs to be a "rebalancing" between child protection and family support there is a real fear amongst managers and practitioners if things go wrong, subjecting them to public inquiry and media contempt. Child Protection and Family Support brings together a range of distinguished researchers and commentators to analyze the nature of the issue and possible ways forward. It draws on recent research case studies; policy makers, managers and practitioners in social work and child welfare agencies. Marion Brandon, University of East Anglia, Elaine Farmer, University of Bristol, Nick Frost, University of Leeds, Jane Gibbons, Centre for Social Policy, Warren House, B

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Focuses on the continuing debate about how child protection policies and practices should be balanced and integrated with those in family support and child welfare more generally. A range of distinguished commentators suggest ways forward

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 147mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780415142243
• ISBN-10: 0415142245
• Artikelnr.: 21008853

Autorenporträt

Nigel Parton

Inhaltsangabe

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 Mike 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 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? Christine Lyon 9. Protection and Child Welfare:
Striking the Balance Elaine Farmer 10. Need, Risk and Significant Harm June
Thoburn, Marion Brandon and Anne Lewis 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