Making Child Protection Work
eBook - ePub

Making Child Protection Work

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Making Child Protection Work

About this book

Despite its huge public profile, surprisingly little is known about child protection work. Discussion focuses on failures that result in children dying, or on what social workers cannot do, due to bureaucratic pressures and limited time. This book examines in detail how social workers can use the time they do have to relate to children and families, make child protection work and create meaningful change.

Featuring:

• Detailed examination of real-world child protection work and family experiences based on original research;

• A new vocabulary for understanding and improving social work and relationship-based practice;

• New insights into how to provide effective staff support and supervision;

• Original integration of psychoanalytic and sociological perspectives; and

• Practical tools for navigating challenges such as working with infants and managing hostile relationships.

Sure to become a classic social work text, this book explores how helpful relationships are made and sustained, and how they can be made better. It provides a new 'forward-facing' approach, with practical and theoretical insights into how, and under what organisational conditions, relationship-based practice and child protection can be made to work.

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Information

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781447378273
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Work
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: Bringing child protection to life
  8. 1 The child protection system and the making of practiceIn the office and beyond
  9. 2 Starting relationships: investigating and assessing child protection concerns
  10. 3 Relationships over time: care, holding and reliabilityHolding practices
  11. 4 Automated practice: the invisible and unheld child
  12. 5 Disorganised practice: chaotically thought about and
  13. 6 The intimate pattern: seen, heard and held children
  14. 7 Hands-on practice: making relationships with babies and young children
  15. 8 Holding relationships: helping parents, families and enabling change
  16. 9 Hostile relationships: conflict and good authority in working with involuntary service users
  17. 10 Close or distant? Relational styles in child protection work
  18. 11 Crafting relational spaces: digital, outdoor and mobile practices
  19. 12 Beyond reflective practice: helping practitioners with thinking and non-thinking
  20. 13 Holding environments: supervision and live organisational support for relational practice
  21. 14 Making child protection work well
  22. Appendix: Methodology and the research studies
  23. References
  24. Index