Understanding child and family welfare: statutory responses to children at risk

This book crosses international boundaries toexplore contemporary child and family welfare practices. It traces the major changes and challenges inWestern practice over the past decade, looks at evidence-informed practice, and focuses on the generic phases of the statutory process, including assessing risk andfinding safe solutions. MARIE CONNOLLY Chair and Head of Social Work at the School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. She was previously the Chief Social Worker within the New Zealand government, and was Associate Professor and Director at the Te Awatea Violence Research Centre at the University of Canterbury,New Zealand. She has published extensively in her area of scholarship, including eight related books, most recently 'Child Death by Maltreatment' (2007), 'Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services' (2008) and 'Social Work: Contexts and Practice 2nd Edition' (2009). She holds an honorary professorship at the University of Auckland and she has a statutory background in child protection. . KATE MORRIS Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. She was previously Head of Social Work at the University of Birmingham, UK. INDICE: Preface - Acknowledgements - Responding to Children at Risk - Regulatory Frameworks in Child Welfare - Practice Frameworks, Models and Resourcesin Child Welfare - Family Engagement Strategies in Child Welfare - Statutory Systems of Care - Supporting Family-based Systems of Care - The Experiences and Voices of Children in Care - Strengthening Practice - Concluding Thoughts - References -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-25019-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 192
• Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés