Product Description: Statutory authorities frequently face anxieties in the management of families where previous fatal child abuse has occurred. The principles and practices set down here should provide both managers and practitioners with a way forward.

Product Description: This is an extension text in the "Skills for Caring" series which is aimed at health and social care workers and which reflects the skills and standards necessary to obtain National Vocational Qualifications in care work. This text describes some of the general principles, specific issues and particular skills involved in working with people in groups...read more

Product Description: This report presents the second phase of a larger research programme investigating co-ordination in child protection in the UK, funded by the Department of Health. It is primarily an exploratory study based upon an extensive postal survey of 339 practitioners (general practitioners, health visitors, paediatricians, specialist police, social workers and teachers) drawn from three diverse locations in the north of England...read more

Product Description: The Children Act 1989 came into force in October 1991. This study elicits the opinions of "service users" - the parents and children who are the least likely to have heard about the Act but are nevertheless those people for whose benefit it was intended...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focusing on good working practice in all aspects of conducting enquiries into alleged child abuse, this book takes a positive approach to improving relationships between the workers and the families involved. Each chapter concentrates on a specific issue, including topics such as gatekeeping, planning an enquiry, interviewing children, medical examinations, and recorded agreements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The aims of this work are to make the case for social work departments to have the major responsibility for the problem of domestic violence. It proposes the principle ingredients for a policy on domestic violence which might be adopted by a local authority. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Effective Ways of Working with Children and their Families examines the latest evidence about the most successful forms of intervention when working with children and their families. The book covers a wide range of approaches and services, with particular emphasis on those methods seeking to help children with identified problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text explores the effect of involving parents in the conference process, on the decisions and recommendations made on the views and experiences of the professionals and families involved. It is based on a research design which involved comparisons of conferences and of areas where parents were invited and those where they were not...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This concise, fully referenced guide establishes the impact of fathers on children's development in problem families and looks at the complex aspects of a father's role, including the legal status of different family situations.

Product Description: The first text to look in detail at the delivery and management of therapeutic work in family centres, this much-needed book gives practical guidance for professionals working with children and families. The contributors show how family centres form a key element of 'joined-up' work with families in need, providiing both practical and emotional support for parents as well as children...read more

Product Description: This international assessment of family centres offers creative practice ideas and highlights the role of practitioners as developmental or informal educationalists. The book challenges care management in child protection as the dominant discourse in child care social work and argues that integrated practice in family centres offers a more appropriate approach to working with children and families...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With contributions from leading experts in the child welfare field, this book provides an overview of the best current evidence from research on 'what works' in social care services for children and families. The research reviews are helpfully laid out in sections covering services for children who are looked after away from home; interventions aimed at reducing the social exclusion of children and young people; and interventions aimed at protecting children or promoting their health...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Remaking Social Work with Children and Families provides a sustained examination of the 'modernisation' of this area of social care. It analyses some of the key themes introduced by the administrations of John Major and Tony Blair and provides a critical exploration of contemporary policy initiatives and issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This timely text provides a constructively critical analysis of contemporary debates and developments around family support. It draws from a range of sources, including the author's own research, to demonstrate why feminist insights are needed to understand the changing lives of men, women and children today...read more

Dominant social work and social care discourses on 'race' and ethnicity often fail to incorporate an Irish dimension. This book challenges this omission and provides new insights into how social work has engaged with Irish children and their families, historically and to the present day. The book provides the first detailed exploration social work with Irish children and families in Britain; examines archival materials to illuminate historical patterns of engagement; provides an account of how social services departments in England and Wales are currently responding to the needs of Irish children and families; incorporates the views of Irish social workers and acts as a timely intervention in the debate on social work's 'modernisation' agenda. The book will be valuable to social workers, social work educators and students. Its key themes will also fascinate those interested in 'race' and ethnicity in Britain in the early 21st century.

Helping Abused Children and their Families is a timely guide to the main challenges faced by social workers working in the context of child abuse and child protection. Written accessibly, the book outlines the knowledge and skills needed for effective practice. By drawing upon current international research, Chris Trotter shows that rates of re-abuse and client and worker satisfaction can be improved with certain approaches to intervention.