Good Practice in Child Protection : A Manual for Professionals, Paperback / softback Book

Good Practice in Child Protection : A Manual for Professionals Paperback / softback

Edited by Hilary Owen, Jacki Pritchard

Part of the Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice series

Paperback / softback

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Good Practice in Child Protection is a timely practical handbook for use by all professionals who work with child abuse cases as they get to grips with the new legislation on child protection.

The contributors come from a wide range of backgrounds, including the social services, medicine, the legal professions and the police force.

The book is soundly based on theory, but its main emphasis is on practice, and it includes exercises to improve practice in specific areas of child protection work, enabling workers to achieve the high standards now demanded. The subjects covered include:The Children Act and child protectionRecognizing abusePreventing female genital mutilationCommunicating with children about abuseChild protection case conferencesPromoting inter-professional understandingVictims of child abuseThe police perspectiveSupervision and support of workers

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