Developing good practice in children's services [electronic resource] / [edited by] Vicky White and John Harris.

ISBN:

9781843101505

9781846420788

9781423710288

9781280303111

Title:

Developing good practice in children's services [electronic resource] / [edited by] Vicky White and John Harris.

Author:

Harris, John, 1952-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : J. Kingsley Publishers, 2004.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Contents:

Cover; Developing Good Practice in Children's Services; Contents; 1 Changing Children's Services; 2 Strategic Development: Managing the Vision; 3 Analysing Risk in Child Protection: A Model for Assessment; 4 Assessment of Children in Need and their Families; 5 Children and Young People with Sexual Behaviour Difficulties: A Practice Framework for Holistic Interventions; 6 Working in a Multi-agency Context: Children's Services Development Groups; 7 Taking Care: Helping Children Learn to Keep Themselves Safer; 8 Recognising and Celebrating Children's Cultural Heritage.

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Subject Term:

Child welfare -- Great Britain.

Children -- Services for -- Great Britain.

Social work with children -- Great Britain.

Added Author:

Harris, John, 1952-

White, Vicky, 1959-

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2004

Publication Information:

London ; New York : J. Kingsley Publishers, 2004.

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Summary

This book is concerned with how social workers and managers can engage reflectively and proactively with changes in children's services. Vicky White and John Harris have drawn together the contributors' experiences of working with children in a broad range of settings, emphasising ways in which the current context of change can be used as an opportunity to enhance the quality of service provision and achieve better outcomes for children and their families.
The authors examine approaches to the assessment of children in need and the analysis of risk, and consider the impact of poverty and social divisions on children's lives. Highlighting key concepts, such as community development and multi-agency interventions, they anticipate likely policy developments for the future. Examples are provided of the planning and implementation of new initiatives including:
· preventive education to protect children
· positive reinforcement of children's cultural heritage
· therapeutic approaches to sexually inappropriate behaviour
· training programmes for foster carers.
The real-life material on which the book draws can be used as source material by students undertaking qualifying programmes in health, social care and social work and by more experienced professionals to reflect on their own practice, particularly if they are undertaking post-qualifying courses - a timely resource for all staff and students seeking to develop good practice in children's services.

Author Notes

Vicky White is a lecturer and John Harris is a professor in the School of Health and Social Studies at the University of Warwick.