Safeguarding and Promoting the Well-being of Children, Families and Communities
Edited by Jane Scott and Harriet Ward
Foreword by Maria Eagle MP
Part of the Child Welfare Outcomes series
Hardback: £49.99 / $90.00
2005, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 304pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-141-3, BIC 2: JKSN
JKS
Improving the well-being of children is more effective when social care professionals work with the children's parents, families and communities. This collection brings together innovative interventions designed to nurture children's health and welfare, and analyses which types of programmes are most effective and why.
The contributors explore the impact of poverty on children's development and assess national initiatives set up to assess and reduce need. They present examples from the UK, US, Canada and Australia of specific interventions to counter or prevent difficulties in the domains of child development, parenting capacity and wider environmental factors. Many contributions demonstrate the importance of engaging with service users and helping communities to shape and direct their own programmes for change. The final section of the book presents useful approaches to assessing and evaluating services.
Demonstrating the need for close inter-agency collaboration and `joined up' services, this book is essential reading for policy makers, managers and practitioners in child welfare agencies, and social work academics and students.
By the same authors
Babies and Young Children in Care
Life Pathways, Decision-making and Practice
Harriet Ward, Emily R. Munro and Chris Dearden
The Integrated Children's System
Enhancing Social Work and Inter-Agency Practice
Hedy Cleaver, Steve Walker, Jane Scott, Daniel Cleaver, Wendy Rose, Harriet Ward and Andy Pithouse
Recognizing and Helping the Neglected Child
Evidence-Based Practice for Assessment and Intervention
Brigid Daniel, Julie Taylor and Jane Scott
With David Derbyshire and Deanna Neilson
Safeguarding Babies and Very Young Children from Abuse and Neglect
Harriet Ward, Rebecca Brown and David Westlake
Author information
Subject areas
Keywords
People who bought this, also bought
Understanding Attachment and Attachment Disorders: Theory, Evidence and Practice
Vivien Prior and Danya Glaser
Culture and Child Protection: Reflexive Responses
Marie Connolly, Yvonne Crichton-Hill and Tony Ward
The Developing World of the Child
Edited by Jane Aldgate, David Jones, Wendy Rose and Carole Jeffery
Supporting Parents: Messages from Research
David Quinton
