cover image - The Child Protection Handbook - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 4th Edition
ISBN: 9780702079795
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 01-04-2024
Page Count: 536
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $38.99

The Child Protection Handbook - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 4th Edition

by Rachael Clawson, Lisa Warwick and Rachel Fyson

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - The Child Protection Handbook - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 4th Edition
ISBN: 9780702079795
Copyright: 2025
Publication Date: 01-04-2024
Page Count: 536
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $38.99
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    • Fully updated since the last edition in 2007 – perfect for all those working with children and young people
    • Easy to navigate and locate information – suitable as a reference book for busy practitioners
    • Illustrative boxes in each chapter, drawing on practice case examples to highlight current issues and dilemmas
    • All concepts explained in straightforward, jargon-free language
    • Reflective points to encourage the reader to think about their own practice and apply new knowledge
    • Key questions for students and teachers to check understanding and to explore concepts further
    • Links to resources and further reading
    • Supporting social workers in child protection practice
    • Poverty and child protection
    • New forms of child abuse, including technology assisted child sexual abuse, child sexual exploitation, gangs and criminal exploitation, radicalisation, forced marriage of children and young people, female genital mutilation, and faith-based abuse
    • Focus on teenagers, including child protection in adolescence, leaving care, safeguarding and children in conflict with the law, children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour, and child to parent violence and abuse
    • Safeguarding in sport and leisure
    • Working with parents at risk of repeat removal of their children through care proceedings
  • PART 1
    The Context for Child Safeguarding
    1 FROM RELATIONSHIPS AND COMMUNITY TO RISK AND COMPLIANCE: REFLECTIONS ON FIFTY YEARS OF PROTECTING CHILDREN
    2 THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
    3 HUMANE PRACTICE IN CHILD PROTECTION: THE STORY OF ONE PROJECT
    4 POVERTY AND CHILD PROTECTION
    5 CHILD PROTECTION AND THE FAMILY COURT: AN INTRODUCTION TO LEGISLATION, POLICY AND PRACTICE
    6 INTER-AGENCY PRACTICE IN SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN
    7 SUPPORTING SOCIAL WORKERS: THE ROLE OF SUPERVISION
    PART 2
    Key Issues in Child Safeguarding
    8 CUMULATIVE RISK OF HARM
    9 ENDURING FORMS OF CHILD ABUSE (NEGLECT, SEXUAL, PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND FUTURE HARM)
    10 ‘NEW’ FORMS OF CHILD ABUSE (EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION)
    10A TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: AS A FRAME THROUGH WHICH TO DEVELOP AND BROADEN UNDERSTANDINGS OF ABUSE INVOLVING TECHNOLOGIES AND THE ONLINE
    10B CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
    10C GANGS AND CHILD CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION
    10D RADICALISATION
    10E FORCED MARRIAGE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
    10F FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
    10G CHILD ABUSE LINKED TO FAITH OR BELIEF
    11 CHARACTERISTICS THAT ACCENTUATE VULNERABILITY (EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION)
    11A DISABLED CHILD PROTECTION – EVIDENCE FOR IMPROVED PRACTICE IN THE UK
    11B BEING A LOOKED AFTER CHILD
    11C BEING A REFUGEE OR ASYLUM SEEKER
    11D BEING A YOUNG CARER
    12 FROM 10S TO TEENS: WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE (EDITORS INTRODUCTION)
    12A CHILD PROTECTION IN ADOLESCENCE
    12B LEAVING CARE
    12C SAFEGUARDING AND CHILDREN IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW
    12D CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO SEXUALLY HARM OTHERS
    12E CHILD TO PARENT VIOLENCE AND ABUSE
    PART 3
    Child Protection Practices
    13 CULTURALLY SENSITIVE CHILD PROTECTION PRACTICE
    14 MODELS OF CHILD PROTECTION PRACTICE
    15 SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN: THE ASSESSMENT CHALLENGES
    16 CHILD PROTECTION LEGISLATION IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
    17 CHILD PROTECTION AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
    18 DIRECT WORK WITH CHILDREN
    19 WORKING WITH PARENTS (EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION)
    19A WORKING WITH PARENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
    19B WORKING WITH PARENTS EXPERIENCING MENTAL DISTRESS
    19C YOUNG PARENTS
    19D COMPASSIONATE AND EFFECTIVE PRACTICE WITH PARENTS AT RISK OF REPEAT REMOVAL OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH CARE PROCEEDINGS
    20 SAFEGUARDING IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
    21 SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN IN HEALTHCARE CONTEXTS
    22 SAFEGUARDING IN SPORT AND LEISURE
    23 EDITORS’ FINAL THOUGHTS: CHILD PROTECTION BEYOND THE PANDEMIC
    INDEX
  • Rachael Clawson, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Nottingham, UK, Lisa Warwick, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Nottingham, UK and Rachel Fyson, Professor of Social Work, University of Nottingham, UK
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