Developing Good Practice in Children's Services
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Developing Good Practice in Children's Services

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Developing Good Practice in Children's Services

About this book

This book is concerned with how social workers and managers can engage reflectively and proactively with changes in children's services. Vicky White and John Harris have drawn together the contributors' experiences of working with children in a broad range of settings, emphasising ways in which the current context of change can be used as an opportunity to enhance the quality of service provision and achieve better outcomes for children and their families.
The authors examine approaches to the assessment of children in need and the analysis of risk, and consider the impact of poverty and social divisions on children's lives. Highlighting key concepts, such as community development and multi-agency interventions, they anticipate likely policy developments for the future. Examples are provided of the planning and implementation of new initiatives including:
Ā·preventive education to protect children
Ā·positive reinforcement of children's cultural heritage
Ā·therapeutic approaches to sexually inappropriate behaviour
Ā·training programmes for foster carers.
The real-life material on which the book draws can be used as source material by students undertaking qualifying programmes in health, social care and social work and by more experienced professionals to reflect on their own practice, particularly if they are undertaking post-qualifying courses ā€“ a timely resource for all staff and students seeking to develop good practice in children's services.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Developing Good Practice in Childrenā€™s Services
  3. Contents
  4. 1 Changing Childrenā€™s Services
  5. 2 Strategic Development: Managing the Vision
  6. 3 Analysing Risk in Child Protection: A Model for Assessment
  7. 4 Assessment of Children in Need and their Families
  8. 5 Children and Young People with Sexual Behaviour Difficulties: A Practice Framework for Holistic Interventions
  9. 6 Working in a Multi-agency Context: Childrenā€™s Services Development Groups
  10. 7 Taking Care: Helping Children Learn to Keep Themselves Safer
  11. 8 Recognising and Celebrating Childrenā€™s Cultural Heritage
  12. 9 Family Placements: Matching Needs and Services
  13. 10 Developing an NVQ Assessment Centre for Foster Care
  14. 11 Changeā€¦and More Change
  15. APPENDIX 1: THE EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR QUALITY MANAGEMENT (EFQM) EXCELLENCE MODEL
  16. APPENDIX 2: ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE OF 248 REFERRALS TO SIBS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE REPORTED TO HAVE INITIATED INAPPROPRIATE SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR DURING THE FIVE-YEAR PERIOD 1997 TO 2001
  17. APPENDIX 3: THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF STRATFORD CHILDREN'S SERVICES DEVELOPMENT GROUPS
  18. APPENDIX 4: OUTCOME OF SURVEY ASSESSING WHAT CONSTITUENT MEMBERS OF LOCAL PARTNERSHIP TEAMS FELT ABOUT DEVELOPMENT GROUPS
  19. REFERENCES
  20. THE CONTRIBUTORS
  21. SUBJECT INDEX
  22. AUTHOR INDEX