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: $43.99

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: $43.99
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The Child Protection Handbook explains how to recognise abuse and protect at-risk children for those working with children and young people aged under 18, including in social care, education, health services, and sport and leisure settings.

The book has been fully updated to incorporate the impact of new technology as well as current legal and policy frameworks that govern statutory child protection intervention in the UK. It considers all aspects of child protection, including organisational issues, children’s rights, the needs of those from diverse backgrounds, and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on child protection work.

With accessible, up-to-date information presented in an easy-to-navigate format, the Handbook is ideal for all busy practitioners wanting to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families.

    • 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
  • 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
  • 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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