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Effective child protection

By: Publisher: London : SAGE, 2020Edition: 3rd edDescription: xv, 239pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526464743
  • 9781526464736
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WS 160.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Child Protection Agencies as Complex Adaptive Systems; Chapter 3: Expertise in Child Protection Work; Chapter 4: Evaluating complex interventions; Chapter 5: The social context; Chapter 6: Defining child abuse and neglect; Chapter 7: The Challenges of Managing Uncertainty in Practice; Chapter 8: The process of assessing risk; Chapter 9: Making decisions; Chapter 10: How organisations can support effective practice; Chapter 11: Conclusion;
Summary: Eileen Munro, author of the seminal Munro Review, returns in this fully revised and updated third edition. With new chapters on ′Child Protection Agencies as Complex Adaptive Systems′ and ′How organisations can support more effective practice′, this new edition shifts its focus from individual workers to look at the critical role that organisations play in child protection, and how individuals are affected by the complex enterprise of people, processes, cultures and agencies. It remains an essential guide to strengthening analytic and intuitive skills to improve children′s safety.
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Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Child Protection Agencies as Complex Adaptive Systems; Chapter 3: Expertise in Child Protection Work; Chapter 4: Evaluating complex interventions; Chapter 5: The social context; Chapter 6: Defining child abuse and neglect; Chapter 7: The Challenges of Managing Uncertainty in Practice; Chapter 8: The process of assessing risk; Chapter 9: Making decisions; Chapter 10: How organisations can support effective practice; Chapter 11: Conclusion;

Eileen Munro, author of the seminal Munro Review, returns in this fully revised and updated third edition. With new chapters on ′Child Protection Agencies as Complex Adaptive Systems′ and ′How organisations can support more effective practice′, this new edition shifts its focus from individual workers to look at the critical role that organisations play in child protection, and how individuals are affected by the complex enterprise of people, processes, cultures and agencies. It remains an essential guide to strengthening analytic and intuitive skills to improve children′s safety.

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