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High profile child abuse cases of recent years have brought child safety forward in public consciousness. This book, written for managers and trustees of organizations working with children as well as criminal justice staff working with sex offenders, offers practical safety measures for children's organizations. The text draws on current research on sex offenders in organizational settings and uses case illustrations to explore institutional failures. Firmly committed to child safety through multi-agency collaboration, Creating Safer Organizations supports those who seek to ensure the safety…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
High profile child abuse cases of recent years have brought child safety forward in public consciousness. This book, written for managers and trustees of organizations working with children as well as criminal justice staff working with sex offenders, offers practical safety measures for children's organizations. The text draws on current research on sex offenders in organizational settings and uses case illustrations to explore institutional failures. Firmly committed to child safety through multi-agency collaboration, Creating Safer Organizations supports those who seek to ensure the safety of children under their care.
An accessible resource to help those in organisational settings ensure that they have taken all possible steps to safeguard the children and young people they are responsible for.

Draws on up to date research with people who have committed sexual offences against children in organisational settings, and new developments in interviewing approaches
Details recent cases to illustrate points about institutional failures in protecting children
Highlights the fact that those who sexually offend against children are a diverse and heterogeneous population, and the approaches taken to protect children must address the range of possible risks
Makes a firm commitment to the importance of multi-agency and inter-disciplinary collaboration and is relevant in both community and residential settings
Offers clear and practical messages and measures for organisations to act on
Autorenporträt
Marcus Erooga is NSPCC Theme Adviser for Child Sexual Abuse and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield's Centre for Childhood Studies. He is also immediate past Chair of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA). He has studied staff and volunteers who may present a risk to children in the workplace, and also undertaken research with people convicted of sexual offences in those settings. A past editor and current Board member of the Journal of Sexual Aggression, Marcus has authored and edited some 25 publications on child protection related issues.